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Lung cancer was once a very rare disease, so rare that doctors took special notice when confronted with a case, thinking it a once-in-a-lifetime oddity. Mechanisation and mass marketing towards the end of the 19th century popularised the cigarette habit, however, causing a global lung cancer epidemic. Cigarettes were recognised as the cause of the epidemic in the 1940s and 1950s, with the ...

Mar 14, 2025 · Recent decades have seen enormous global success in tackling the harms from breathing second-hand tobacco smoke (SHS). Ireland led the way in introducing national-level smoke-free enclosed public spaces to protect non-smokers from the harms of SHS, and many countries followed suit.1 Today, 2.1 billion people across 74 countries benefit from comprehensive smoke-free policies in indoor public ...

Background Nicotine is known as the drug that is responsible for the addicted behaviour of tobacco users, but it has poor reinforcing effects when administered alone. Tobacco product design features enhance abuse liability by (A) optimising the dynamic delivery of nicotine to central nervous system receptors, and affecting smokers’ withdrawal symptoms, mood and behaviour; and (B) effecting ...

Background Nicotine pouches without tobacco are new products that deliver nicotine into the body via the oral mucosa. There is a lack of independent research on the chemical composition and product characteristics of these products, contributing to uncertainties regarding product regulation. This study sought to address knowledge gaps by assessing levels of nicotine and screening for tobacco ...

2 days ago · Tobacco Control is an international peer-reviewed journal covering the nature and consequences of tobacco use worldwide; tobacco's effects on population health, the economy, the environment, and society; efforts to prevent and control the global tobacco epidemic through population-level education and policy changes; the ethical dimensions of tobacco control policies; and the activities of the ...

Objective This review summarises the impact of mass media campaigns on promoting quitting among adult smokers overall and for subgroups; the influence of campaign intensity and different channels; the effects of different message types. Methods The present work updates two reviews published in 2008 by searching databases using a standard search string. Articles in languages other than English ...

As 2025 begins, marking the 20th anniversary year of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) entering into force, it is timely to reflect on how much the tobacco control landscape has changed. Advances that were unimaginable to many at the time the FCTC was being negotiated have been made, yet progress remains both uneven and precarious, subject to government changes and the ...

Background Despite compelling evidence on the health hazards of tobacco products accumulated over the past 70 years, smoking remains a leading cause of death worldwide. Policy action to control smoking requires timely, comprehensive, and comparable evidence on smoking levels within and across countries. This study provides a recent assessment of that evidence based on the methods used in the ...

Synthetic nicotine: chemistry and manufacturers. Nicotine is a chiral molecule with two stereoisomers, S-nicotine and R-nicotine ().Tobacco leaf contains >99% S-nicotine.8 A search for the term ‘synthetic nicotine’ in the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents revealed that the industry considered the use of synthetic nicotine already in the 1960s. A document by British American Tobacco proposed ...