Each month, GHEA aggregates the latest news and research related to place-based tobacco control and geographic health disparities. Below you will find the latest posts, updated regularly throughout the month.
(Last updated: February 11, 2022)
General Tobacco Control News and Research
- A study examining the tobacco industry’s marketing strategy of price discounting found that between 1975 and 2019, direct advertising expenditures dramatically fell while price discounting and promotional expenditures increased.
- A study examining public opinion towards pictorial warnings on cigarette packs found that an estimated 69.9% of US adults supported pictorial warnings, 9.1% opposed and 20.9% neither supported nor opposed them.
- Researchers find that from 2015-2019, funding for state tobacco control programs had a significant negative association with both vaping prevalence and vaping intensity among U.S. high school students. Results indicate that a 50% increase in state spending on tobacco control would have been associated with a 7.46% lower high school student vaping prevalence rate than what was observed.
- A group of international respiratory societies has banned researchers associated with tobacco companies from publishing papers in their journals. This comes after Phillip Morris International’s controversial acquisition of a Vectura, a pharmaceutical firm.
- Researchers assessing the effectiveness of e-cigarettes as smoking cessation aids found that the sale increases in high nicotine e-cigarettes in 2017 did not translate to more smokers using these e-cigarettes to quit smoking. On average, using e-cigarettes for cessation in 2017 did not improve successful quitting or prevent relapse.
- A study on internet-based pharmacotherapy intervention finds that in a clinical trial, smoking-cessation drugs prescribed exclusively over the internet were as safe and effective as when prescribed in a clinician’s office.
- In a recent clinical review, researchers synthesize up-to-date evidence on tobacco use and cessation interventions and provide guidance to physicians and the public about the most effective treatments to help smokers quit.
- A recent study estimates the proportion of children younger than 12 years who are exposed to thirdhand smoke (THS) in the absence of secondhand smoke, and examines factors associated with THS exposure.
