Nicotine products like pouches and patches are being promoted for cognitive enhancement, stress reduction, improved athletic performance and much more – with little scientific evidence.
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The legislation, which aims to make it easier to prosecute those involved in the illicit tobacco trade, is more of the same: punitive, but still not effective.
The illicit market for tobacco is not an inevitable result of high excise taxes.
A 75% cut in tobacco tax won’t make cigarettes as cheap as you might think. Here’s what really helps smokers in a cost of living crisis.
A new FDA survey finds some positive trends among young people in the US, though new forms of nicotine use like pouches have become a bit more popular.
For decades, economists have used everything from lipstick to underpants to work out how people really feel about spending money.
Right now, based on market share, organised crime effectively is Big Tobacco in Australia.
A new database includes more than 850 dissertations and theses, spanning everything from baseball slang and cigarette smoking to postage stamps and ballpark organs.
Flavored vapes draw new users – especially young people. On the flipside, they can also help some people quit smoking. Makary’s resignation makes it clear that the controversy isn’t going away.
A few US towns have banned cigarette sales to anyone born after a specific date, and several states are considering this path. A psychologist explains why such measures often face stiff resistance.
As a dried plant product, illegal tobacco is a biosecurity risk in its own right. With tonnes of it arriving undetected, these tiny pests may be hitchhiking in too.
Starting a GLP-1 drug was linked with a 14% overall reduced risk of new substance use disorders and a lower risk of harm for those with existing use disorders.
A generational sales ban could transform smoking rates. Success depends on enforcement, funding and resisting industry pressure.
Only 50% of Colorado homes have been tested for radon.
Taxes raise prices, and higher prices reduce smoking. But duty-free tobacco sales remain a policy anomaly and deny the government much-needed health revenue.
The gas industry is opposed to labels that warn consumers of the potential harms of gas stoves.
Girls are at an even greater risk of early substance use than boys.
The illicit market has reached the point where it is significantly distorting the national accounts.
South Australian landlords who turn a blind eye on illegal tobacco can now be fined, while Queensland is proposing bigger fines and even a year in jail.
Critics of the tobacco excise argue the tax has stopped working to further reduce smoking rates and should be lowered.
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Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Health Promotion and Policy, UMass Amherst
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Director, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame and ARC Future Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, University of New South Wales, UNSW
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Professor of Economics and Director of the Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Public Health, The University of Melbourne
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Research Officer, Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor in Criminology, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy and Global Public Health, University of Michigan
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Professor of Public Health/Director, Tobacco Control Research Group, University of Bath
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Professor of Health Policy, Curtin University
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Business Economics, University of Bath
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Lecturer & Senior Researcher in Evidence-Based Healthcare, University of Oxford