Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, United States of America. Electronic address: jtrimis@usc.edu.
Department of Epidemiology, CAPHRI-School for Public Health and Primary Care, Maastricht University Medical Centre, 6211 LK Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Department of Epidemiology, GROW-School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, 6211 LK Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Tobacco companies have introduced heated tobacco product (HTP) in many countries and marketed it on the grounds that it is a less harmful alternative to health. However, tobacco companies have been wi...
This is an observational epidemiological study....
Using monthly time series data from September 2016 to June 2020, we analyzed whether the adoption of HTPs has followed the same behavior patterns as other brands that were introduced under the same co...
The adoption of HTPs in Spain has been like that of brands of slim cigarettes that are mistakenly considered to be healthier than traditional cigarettes. The results indicate that the use of HTPs has ...
Policymakers should keep in mind that laws should restrict any marketing of tobacco products that promotes positive connotations between tobacco use and being healthy. If manufacturers are allowed to ...
Tobacco is both toxic and addictive. Mounting evidence shows that tobacco use has a detrimental impact on almost every aspect of human health, causing or worsening deadly public health crises from the...
Tobacco use is associated with mortality in low- and middle-income countries including India with dual burden of smoking and smokeless tobacco (SLT). Aligning with the FCTC, India has made substantial...
Cross-sectional study was conducted in two districts of Delhi selected by simple random sampling. Fifteen points of sales were selected from each district through purposive sampling and 57 smoking and...
Total 57 samples has smoking (49.1%), smokeless (50.9%) with no SLT product of foreign origin. SLT and foreign products had low compliance of Section 7 and third amendment 2020 rules which includes ma...
Foreign brands and SLT products had low compliance with sections 7 and 8 of COTPA and its amendments (2020). Compliance with illicit trade and SW needs regulation and strict implementation of law for ...
Ontologies are ways of representing information that improve clarity and the ability to connect different data sources. This paper proposes an initial version of an ontology of tobacco, nicotine and v...
Terms related to tobacco, nicotine and vaping products were identified in the research literature and their usage characterised. Basic Formal Ontology was used as a unifying upper-level ontology to de...
Overlapping, but distinct classes were developed: 'tobacco-containing product', 'nicotine-containing product' and 'vaping device'. Subclasses of tobacco-containing products are 'combustible tobacco-co...
Use of an ontology of tobacco, nicotine and vaping products should help reduce ambiguity and confusion in tobacco control research and practice....
Understanding public opinions about emerging tobacco products is important to inform future interventions and regulatory decisions. Heated tobacco products (HTPs) are an emerging tobacco product categ...
This study aims to examine HTP-related social media discourse around important policy events....
We analyzed HTP-related posts on Twitter during the time period that included IQOS's MRTP authorization in the United States and the US import ban, examining personal testimonial, news/information, an...
Tweet volumes peaked around IQOS-related policy events. Among all tweets, personal testimonials were the most common (1613/2796, 57.7%), followed by news/information (862/2796, 30.8%) and direct marke...
Results suggest the need for careful communication about the meaning of MRTP authorizations and relative risks of tobacco products. Many tweets expressed HTP-favorable opinions referring to reduced he...
Use of flavored tobacco has been associated with lower likelihood of short-term abstinence from tobacco. It is unknown whether longer-term associations exist, particularly for a variety of products an...
To examine whether survey setting was associated with youth reporting of current (past 30-day) use of any tobacco product, e-cigarettes, cigarettes, and cigars....
Data from the 2021 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) were used to estimate the prevalence of current use of any tobacco product, e-cigarettes, cigarettes, and cigars by survey setting, sociodemogra...
Among students who participated in the 2021 NYTS, 50.8% reported taking the survey on school campus and 49.2% at home/other place. The prevalence of current use of any tobacco product, e-cigarettes, c...
The likelihood of youth reporting current use of any tobacco product and e-cigarettes differed by survey setting. Such differences could be due to lack of privacy at home, peer influence in school set...
While an increasing number of studies have evaluated tobacco microbiomes, comparative microbiome analyses across diverse tobacco products are non-existent. Moreover, to our knowledge, no previous stud...
The rapid proliferation of smokeless tobacco (SLT) in India has occurred without adequate information on the possible dangers and toxicity of these products. Tobacco flavors as well as nicotine (both ...
Tobacco smoking continues to cause considerable premature mortality and morbidity worldwide. Most of the approximately six trillion cigarettes sold globally each year are discarded improperly as toxic...
