January Issue: Coolants, organic acids, flavourings and other additives that facilitate inhalation of tobacco and nicotine products: implications for regulation. https://bit.ly/4amMPUr

January Issue: Many German rap artists promote hookah tobacco and e-cigarettes on social media. https://bit.ly/4aD6lL2

January Issue: Tobacco control policies discussed on social media: a scoping review. https://bit.ly/4aUyZIU

January Issue: Researchers in Australia find that a high annual tobacco licence fee serves as a potential mechanism for phasing out the sale of commercial tobacco in small retailers in a jurisdiction with other strong tobacco control measures. https://bit.ly/4kEJy6n

January Issue: Young people in Aotearoa/New Zealand who view themselves as addicted to ENDS experience considerable mental distress, which undermines their well-being. https://bit.ly/4amMrFt

January Issue: This paper updates the prior analysis to include trends in the sale of cigarettes and HTPs from 2019 to 2023 and shows that between 2011 and 2023, per capita and total cigarette sales in Japan declined by over 50%. https://bit.ly/4kC1sX8

January Issue: This paper finds that from 2015 to 2021, e-cigarettes have become increasingly more affordable for youth and young adults in 23 USA states. https://bit.ly/4aktinw

This study provides evidence that candy themed packaging may increase the perceived sweetness of vaping e-cigarettes with freebase, but not salt, nicotine, highlighting the importance of a multifaceted regulatory approach that considers both product marketing & formulation. https://bit.ly/4bZ4tyB

January issue: This paper offers the tobacco-control community a comprehensive overview of the free datasets that contain information on cigarette prices in African countries and provides a description of the features of these datasets. https://bit.ly/4awrhmY

January Issue: The implementation of the revised Health Promotion Act in Japan only partially reduced smoking and HTP use in indoor public places and increased exposure to HTP aerosols in cigarette smoke-free places. https://bit.ly/4akt3J8

January Issue: While the ethical arguments to divest from tobacco stocks are undisputed, researchers find that a potentially compelling financial argument to divest from these stocks exists as well. https://bit.ly/3ZBE0zT

January Issue: Researchers find that nicotine throat hit can be predicted and manipulated through ENDS device and liquid design variables. https://bit.ly/3OgsDeh

January Editor's Choice: In Pakistan, almost a third of the cigarette packs collected did not bear a tax stamp, mostly due to the lack of compliance by local companies, confirming a recent review of the TTS implementation by the Federal Bureau of Revenue (FBR). https://bit.ly/3O7IkUK

January Issue: Food insecurity is associated with both combustible and e-cigarette use in South Korea. Those with food insecurity are associated with engagement in high intensity smoking. https://bit.ly/4qOk2Oe

January Issue: This study highlights that homes and cars are high-priority venues for policies to reduce Tobacco Smoke Exposure (TSE) levels among individuals who do not smoke and that reducing TSE in these venues may have pro-equity implications. https://bit.ly/4bUSB0n

Check out our latest blog on normalising the tobacco endgame: https://bit.ly/3Ot6CZM

January Worldwide news and commentary: https://bit.ly/49NbC3y

January Editorial: Right to health: global public health community must act after concerning European judgement on the Estonian smoke-free prisons policy. https://bit.ly/45urc1C

Short-term dollars at what cost? Repealing New Zealand’s Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 plan sacrifices lives and longer-term economic gain. https://bit.ly/3NFdzqh

An industry-funded campaign to oppose tobacco supply reductions in Aotearoa New Zealand drew on economic, law enforcement and political governance arguments outlined in the policy dystopia model; it also developed new economic arguments linked to cost of living concerns. https://bit.ly/4bRWcfO

Support for nicotine reduction in cigarettes: findings from the 2016 and 2020 ITC Four Country Smoking and Vaping Surveys. https://bit.ly/4sZRV05

Birthdate-based commercial tobacco sales restrictions: will ‘tobacco-free generation’ policies advance or delay the endgame? https://bit.ly/4q5CXmv

Tobacco endgame goals and measures in Europe: current status and future directions. https://bit.ly/49ZQgP8

Pharmacist-only supply of nicotine vaping products: proposing an alternative regulatory model for Australia. https://bit.ly/3ZHIW61

Check out our recent blog on tobacco control legislation amendments in Bangladesh - https://bit.ly/3OFM6VF

Eradication of commercial tobacco related disease and death. https://bit.ly/4k4Qjhu

Challenges and prospects in implementing the Generational Endgame policy: Malaysia and global perspectives. https://bit.ly/4sZRfb7

Tobacco-free generation: reflecting on progress globally and its potential feasibility in India. https://bit.ly/45y7MZD

Check out our blog on tobacco industry lobbying in the EU - https://bit.ly/4ktfvhU

Progress in tobacco retailing policy (eg, licensing, retailer incentives) and research (eg, assessment of policy equity and durability, application in other geographical contexts) are needed before a pharmacy-only tobacco supply model would be feasible. https://bit.ly/4qRxZeq

Removing or returning freedom? Views on a nicotinefree generation policy held by young people from Aotearoa New Zealand who use electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS). https://bit.ly/3Z4l78k

Post-2020 trends show that PMI cigarette shipments are barely declining, and the company is not on track to meet its own conservative 2025 target. https://bit.ly/4k1ABDD

VLNC messages reduced the misperception that VLNCs are less harmful than cigarettes, but adding messages about e-cigarettes did not enhance desired outcomes. https://bit.ly/4ajlpOU

Check out our latest blog on tobacco taxation reform in India - https://bit.ly/4adLP3k

In Hong Kong, stronger tobacco industry denormalisatoin beliefs was associated with greater support for total bans on tobacco sales and use. https://bit.ly/4t9Qso6

There is a strong public support for tobacco endgame policies such as restricting tobacco retailers and limiting the nicotine content in cigarettes in South Korea. https://bit.ly/4ricPpu

Commercial tobacco endgame themes in the Australian media from 2000 to 2021: Media articles on the tobacco endgame in Australia generally contained positive sentiment about endgame policies. https://bit.ly/4boXPBg

“I think we can do without [tobacco]”: support for policies to end the tobacco epidemic among California adolescents. https://bit.ly/496CTxF

Economic effects for citizens & government of a country-level tobacco endgame strategy in New Zealand: Large economic gains are projected for consumers from the tobacco endgame package resulting from a sharp reduction in smoking prevalence, & associated morbidity & mortality. https://bit.ly/49ESl47

New Zealand community pharmacists’ perspectives on supplying smoked tobacco as an endgame initiative: Policy-makers will likely encounter strongly expressed opposition if they attempt to introduce a pharmacy supply measure as an initial component of a retail reduction strategy.https://bit.ly/44UeRmW

Transforming Tobacco Control to the Tobacco Endgame Editorial: Bringing together tobacco endgame evidence, theories, ideas, hope - and learning from policy setbacks. https://bit.ly/49l3qWD

Latest News: Across 31 experiments, dwell time was consistently longer for pictorial than textual HWLs (health warning labels), fixation counts increased when packs contained fewer visual distractions, and time to first fixation was shorter for more visually salient HWLs. https://bit.ly/4sqHan2

Latest News: Triple tank control: disposable vape devices with adjustable nicotine and flavour levels could lead to an unintended increase in nicotine exposure and intake. https://bit.ly/49BZoKW

Latest News: Leading tobacco brands on Instagram often violated platform and federal policies, particularly those concerning age verification, sponsorship disclosure and health warning labelling. https://bit.ly/3NKGxoy

Latest News: Evidence that different flavours drive growth in ENDS (electronic nicotine delivery systems) versus ONP (oral nicotine pouches) sales highlights the complexity of the US regulatory environment, particularly with respect to flavour restrictions. https://bit.ly/44VJrwF

Latest News: Singapore’s 2023 tobacco tax increase was predictably more impactful than the 2018 increase, both in terms of price change and demand reduction. https://bit.ly/3YIsP89

Latest News: Standardised packaging success depends on navigating political, institutional and discursive arenas as much as technical design. Strengthening legal capacity, coordination and framing is vital to sustain implementation globally. https://bit.ly/4qBc1f1

Latest News: About 18% of youth and 26% of adults who smoke reported exposure to corrective statements about smoking harms at the point of sale. https://bit.ly/4qBZNTi

Latest News: Youth who vape are exposed to similar levels of nicotine as those who smoke or who dual use. NNAL exposure among youth who vape is much lower than among those who smoke and indistinguishable from youth who do not vape or smoke. https://bit.ly/4qX7rIn