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Welcome to the New (FCTC) Party, Andorra
Andorra is a microstate located in the Pyrenees mountain range between Spain and France. Andorra is also the newest party to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). It is a major win for public health to have a tobacco-producing country join the FCTC. We welcome this development as a positive…
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International Community Welcomes Kenya to the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products
On May 4th, 2020, Kenya became the 59th country to ratify the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products. The Protocol is an international treaty aimed at combating the illicit tobacco trade through an array of measures including supply chain control, offense prosecution, and international cooperation. Illicit trade makes tobacco products more available and…
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Starting Today, Flavored Cigarettes Can No Longer Be Sold in the EU
In response to the ban on flavored tobacco products, tobacco companies are attempting to sell workarounds to their customers. Imperial Tobacco is selling a cardboard strip that imbues the cigarettes in a pack with menthol oil. Japan Tobacco is adopting the same tactic that Indonesian tobacco companies used to avoid the United States’ 2010 ban…
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Indonesian Farmers Better Off Growing Crops Other Than Tobacco: New Research
Tobacco control policies—such as increasing cigarette excise taxes—are often opposed by tobacco companies and their allies. In tobacco-growing countries, these entities argue that tobacco farming provides viable economic livelihoods and tobacco control policies would negatively affect the livelihoods of tobacco farming households. However, the argument that tobacco farming provides a viable economic livelihood is not…
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Youth Vaping in the United States: Risks, Trends, and Potential Policy Solutions
The use of electronic nicotine delivery systems (or ENDS) among youth in the United States has become a serious public health concern for many reasons. These systems — commonly referred to as electronic cigarettes (or just, “e-cigarettes”), vape pens, or even “juuls” — work by heating nicotine-containing fluid to form an aerosol that users inhale.…
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E-cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use-Associated Lung Injury (or EVALI): What you need to know
E-cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use-Associated Lung Injury (or EVALI) is a serious lung disease linked to vaping devices, primarily THC-containing products from informal or black-market sources. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) first started tracking EVALI in the summer of 2019, when large numbers of people with a history of using such…
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What do we know about tobacco use and COVID-19?
There has been a great deal of discussion in the news media about the potential relationship between COVID-19 and tobacco use, including smoking and vaping. We address some of the most asked questions here. Does smoking increase the likelihood of contracting COVID-19? There isn’t yet direct evidence that a history of smoking makes an individual…
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Tobacco Industry Targets Women and Girls as Next Generation of Smokers
Given that women often smoke for different reasons than men, effective tobacco control strategies may need to target women differently. In countries where women are typically of a lower economic status than men, they may be more price sensitive to tax or price increases, increasing the salience of including limits on price promotions in tobacco…
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The cost of tobacco use is enormous in Bangladesh and it is rising
The Bangladesh Cancer Society has recently published the full report “The Economic Cost of Tobacco Use in Bangladesh: A Health Cost Approach,” based on a comprehensive national-level study completed in collaboration with the University of Dhaka, and with financial and technical assistance from the American Cancer Society’s Global Cancer Control and Economic and Health Policy…
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Ethiopia is increasing its tobacco taxes by introducing a specific excise
Last week Ethiopia passed a landmark bill increasing taxes on tobacco products. The tax reform came almost exactly a year after the country passed its comprehensive tobacco control law introducing broad smoke-free policies, advertising bans, large pictorial warnings on packs, new age restrictions on cigarette purchasing as well as banning electronic cigarettes and flavored tobacco.…