Standardised cigarettes: the next step for tobacco policy?

Eijk, Yvette van der

doi:10.1136/tc-2022-057417

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“…A standardized cigarette policy is an innovative concept that considers the dissuasive technique together with banning flavors and adjusting nicotine, as three pillars that together form an effective tool for preventing tobacco companies from getting around marketing restrictions 27 .…”

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Perceptions of health warnings on cigarette sticks among the adult population in Al-Madinah, Saudi Arabia: A crosssectional survey

Al-Ahmadi,

Almatrafi,

Ali

et al. 2024

Tob. Induc. Dis.

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INTRODUCTION Health warnings on cigarette sticks are emerging as a tool to control tobacco consumption; hence, understanding how they are perceived is valuable in determining their effectiveness. Our study aimed to evaluate the perception of health-related messages and warnings on individual cigarette sticks. It also aimed to evaluate the perceptions of the effectiveness of cigarette packaging warnings and the acceptance level for the inclusion of health warnings on cigarette sticks. METHODS This cross-sectional survey was conducted on 285 individuals in Al-Madinah, Saudi Arabia. The survey was distributed online using a non-probability convenience sampling technique. The chi-squared test and logistic regression analysis were used to determine the association of sociodemographic characteristics and smoking-related variables with participants’ perceptions of health warnings on cigarette sticks and packaging. The responses were also assessed qualitatively using conceptual content analysis. RESULTS In all, 18.6% of participants perceived that the package warnings were either ‘quite effective’ or ‘very effective’ in prompting smokers to quit. For health warnings on cigarette sticks, 28.1% of participants perceived that the theme of statistics on mortality was either ‘quite effective’ or ‘very effective’ in prompting smokers to quit, compared to 35.0 % for the theme of social and financial consequences. Respondents who had secondary education and lower were almost two times more likely to support the inclusion of health warnings than those who had a university education and higher (OR=1.9; 95% CI: 1.02–3.7, p=0.042). Most of the comments were positive for the inclusion of health warnings on cigarette sticks. CONCLUSIONS Most participants perceived that package warnings were ineffective, but warnings on cigarette sticks were effective methods of dissuasion of cigarette use. Smokers were almost twice as likely to perceive as effective supportive messages to quit than non-smokers. The majority of participants ‘agreed’ or ‘strongly agreed’ to the inclusion of health warnings on cigarette sticks.

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Perceptions of health warnings on cigarette sticks among the adult population in Al-Madinah, Saudi Arabia: A crosssectional survey

Al-Ahmadi,

Almatrafi,

Ali

et al. 2024

Tob. Induc. Dis.

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Optimism in the tobacco endgame – Authors' reply

van der Eijk,

Tamil Selvan,

Yeo

2024

The Lancet Global Health

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What measures are needed to achieve a tobacco endgame target? A Singapore-based simulation study

2023

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BackgroundAn increasing number of countries are pursuing a tobacco ‘endgame’. We sought to determine the combination of measures it would take to achieve a tobacco endgame in the city-state of Singapore.MethodsUsing an open-cohort microsimulation model, we estimated the impact of existing measures (quit programmes, tobacco taxes, flavours ban) and more novel measures (very low nicotine cap, tobacco-free generation, raising the minimum legal age to 25 years), and combinations thereof, on smoking prevalence in Singapore over a 50-year horizon. We used Markov Chain Monte Carlo to estimate transition probabilities between the states of never smoker, current smoker and former smoker, updating each individual’s state across each year with prior distributions derived from national survey data.ResultsWithout new measures, smoking prevalence is expected to rebound from 12.2% (2020) to 14.8% (2070). The only scenarios to achieve a tobacco endgame target within a decade are those combining a very low nicotine cap with a flavours ban. A nicotine cap or tobacco-free generation alone also achieve endgame targets, but after 20 and 39 years, respectively. Taxes, quit programmes, a flavours ban and minimum legal age increase do augment the impact of other measures, but even when combined are insufficient to achieve a tobacco endgame target within 50 years.ConclusionIn Singapore, achieving a tobacco endgame within a decade requires a very low nicotine cap coupled with a tobacco flavours ban, although this target can also be achieved in the long term (within 50 years) with a tobacco-free generation.

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Standardised cigarettes: the next step for tobacco policy?

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References 64 publications

Perceptions of health warnings on cigarette sticks among the adult population in Al-Madinah, Saudi Arabia: A crosssectional survey

Perceptions of health warnings on cigarette sticks among the adult population in Al-Madinah, Saudi Arabia: A crosssectional survey

Optimism in the tobacco endgame – Authors' reply

What measures are needed to achieve a tobacco endgame target? A Singapore-based simulation study

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