Pro-tobacco marketing and anti-tobacco campaigns aimed at vulnerable populations: A review of the literature

The Truth About "Truth" and Other Anti-Drug and Anti-Tobacco Media Campaigns Aimed at Youth

Using tobacco-industry marketing research to design more effective tobacco-control campaigns.

To improve tobacco-control efforts by applying tobacco-industry marketing research and strategies to clinical and public health smoking interventions, we analyzed previously secret tobacco-industry marketing documents. In contrast to public health, the tobacco industry divides markets and defines targets according to consumer attitudes, aspirations, activities, and lifestyles. Tobacco marketing...

Application of policy analysis frameworks in tobacco control research: A systematic review of qualitative literature

    Background: Tobacco consumption is still considered as the first preventable cause of death in the world. In order to influence tobacco policy process, researchers and policymakers must use frameworks of policy-making to understand the process to provide them insights for influence the process. This systematic review aims to review the application of policy analysis framework...

What are the effects of tobacco policies on vulnerable populations? A better practices review.

BACKGROUND While comprehensive tobacco policies have reduced the prevalence of smoking in Canada, some groups remain vulnerable to tobacco use and display high rates of smoking. This article reviews three types of tobacco policies--tax and price, smoking location restrictions and sales restrictions--and examines the consequences for Aboriginal people, youth and low-income people. METHODS A be...

Tobacco Retail Outlets and Vulnerable Populations in Ontario, Canada

Interest has been increasing in regulating the location and number of tobacco vendors as part of a comprehensive tobacco control program. The objective of this paper is to examine the distribution of tobacco outlets in a large jurisdiction, to assess: (1) whether tobacco outlets are more likely to be located in vulnerable areas; and (2) what proportion of tobacco outlets are located close to sc...