Public consultations are an increasingly common mechanism for informing health regulation, yet their vulnerability to automated interference remains undocumented. We examined bot activity within the ...

Background Sub-ohm electronic cigarettes (ECIG) operate at higher power levels than their counterparts, leading to greater ...

Objective To examine population level patterns of e-cigarette use between 2013–14 and 2022–23 by analysing trends in the ...

Background While assessing the lifetime cost of smoking is critical for evaluating tobacco control policies, the available ...

Background Illicit tobacco weakens incentives to quit smoking, facilitates uptake among young people and undermines public ...

Background The effectiveness of excise taxes in reducing tobacco consumption depends on how fully tax increases are reflected ...

Examining the nature of bot responses to public health consultations: the example of automated submissions to the 2023 UK Tobacco and Vapes Bill ...

Dr DR Longo, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine, MA306 Medical Sciences Building, Columbia, Missouri 65212, USA.DanL{at}fcm.missouri.edu ...

Background Following overwhelming evidence of transnational tobacco company (TTC) complicity in smuggling, TTCs claimed to be working actively to address illicit tobacco trade (ITT), establishing ...

Background Illicit trade in cigarettes undermines the public health and fiscal objectives of tobacco taxation. In South Africa, the problem has intensified since 2015, particularly following the 2020 ...

Background Tobacco use remains a global public health challenge, leading to over 8 million annual deaths and significant economic burden. Effective tobacco control and cessation interventions are ...

Introduction Snus and oral nicotine pouches (ONPs) include different levels of nicotine, yet little is known about their correlates of use. Our aim was to study the correlates of use of snus and ONPs ...