The following content is courtesy of the WHO. The report on “Electronic nicotine delivery systems” (ENDS), of which electronic cigarettes are the most common prototype, is on the agenda of the 6th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), being held 13-18 October 2014, in Moscow. E-cigarettes […]
Journal Impact Factor Grows
We are delighted to announce that for the 2nd consecutive year, Tobacco Control is the Number 1 Tobacco-Related Specialty journal in the Public, Environmental and Occupational Health category of the Journal Citation Reports with an Impact Factor of 5.150* (ranked #3 in the social science citation index and #7 in the science citation index). We […]
Uganda: MP accuses British American Tobacco of blackmail
A Ugandan MP who has put forward a private members bill to reduce smoking in Uganda has accused British American Tobacco (BAT) of blackmail. Dr Chris Baryomunsi revealed he has received a letter from BAT advising that the company will stop doing business with farmers in his constituency because his bill has meant existing arrangements are ‘increasingly […]
Academics and The Australian go up in smoke
By Alan Austin This post originally appeared on Independent Australia. We post it here under Creative Commons license. Prominent Australian professors have been caught out making false statements in the tobacco wars started by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. SEVERAL ACADEMICS used by the Murdoch-owned newspaper The Australian have been seriously singed in the last week. […]
Campaign aimed at young adults
New series of ads from New Zealand aimed at young adults – an important and hard to reach group. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTEkHJbpll8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Ix86V3VFU […]
Debunking the tobacco industry take on Australia’s plain packaging laws
Not having succeeded in preventing Australian plain packaging laws from being enacted, the tobacco industry has now turned its efforts to convincing other nations to not follow Australia’s lead. Last week it was reported that smoking had actually increased under the plain packaging laws – a claim that has been expertly taken down by ABC […]
Dirty Secrets… The Smoke-Less Affair
Post written by Shalini 90% of oral cancer cases among Indian men are attributable to tobacco consumption, according to the World Health Organization. Since 2010, India has been engaged in a major war against smokeless or oral tobacco products, including a ban on gutka. Gutka is a popular oral tobacco product that is a highly addictive […]
World No Tobacco Day – Special Isssue
To mark World No Tobacco Day 2014, the BMJ has published a special online issue of Tobacco Control with the theme taxes, prices and illicit trade. The issue includes several open access research papers and editorials. The complete table of contents can be found here. We’d also like to take this opportunity to congratulate our […]
Tobacco Control policy on publishing research to inform regulation
An important message from the Editor, Ruth Malone on the Tobacco Control policy regarding publishing papers based on data submitted to regulatory agencies: The rapid growth of funding for research to inform tobacco regulation in the United States and elsewhere has raised issues about how the journal handles materials that may have been submitted to […]
US: Child Workers in Danger on Tobacco Farms
A Human Rights Watch report which included interviews with more than 100 child tobacco farm laborers in the South of the US has ruled that tobacco farming is so hazardous to children, it must be stopped. The report documents how children are sickened by nicotine and toxic pesticides, work long hours in extreme heat without […]