Tobacco control advocates in India who have been active for more than two decades, together with a few ageing colleagues from the west, will remember the sweat and toil of trying to kick-start a self-sustaining and viable Indian tobacco control movement in the 1980s. The switchback ride from optimism to disappointment , the new dawns and false starts, the workshop sessions shouted against noisy...

This is the first study to systematically track the tobacco use prevalence in an entire emergency department (ED) population and compare age-stratified rates to the general population using national, provincial, and regional comparisons. A tobacco use question was integrated into the ED electronic registration process from 2007 to 2010 in 11 northern hospitals (10 rural, 1 urban). Results showe...

Where are we going in tobacco control long-term, and how will we get there? This issue of Tobacco Control features three new contributions to the growing ‘endgame’ literature with possible answers to those questions: big-picture radical ideas that seek to propel the tobacco control movement more quickly towards a time when the global tobacco disease pandemic that began in the 20th century will ...

The Results section of the Abstract needs to be reworded to reflect the findings, as the current wording (“studies identified that plain packaging reduced appeal of tobacco products in low income settings”; p.4, lines 3-5) suggests a direction of effect that was only assessed in one study – the others are cross-sectional. Perhaps change the word “reduced” and/or rephrase to something like “plai...

Among the tobacco industries in Europe, the one in the Czech Republic has the poorest controls. The collapse of communism in 1989 allowed many changes in the different markets. A big change occurred in the tobacco industry of Czech Republic as well. During the communist era it was impossible for international companies to enter. However, after the collapse, tobacco companies abused this opportu...