Tobacco Control Scale website: a new tool for tobacco control advocates and researchers

Arizona's tobacco control initiative illustrates the need for continuing oversight by tobacco control advocates.

BACKGROUND In 1994, Arizona voters approved Proposition 200 which increased the tobacco tax and earmarked 23% of the new revenues for tobacco education programmes. OBJECTIVE To describe the campaign to pass Proposition 200, the legislative debate that followed the passage of the initiative, and the development and implementation of the tobacco control programme. DESIGN This is a case study....

New media and tobacco control.

OBJECTIVE This paper reviews how the tobacco industry is promoting its products online and examines possible regulation models to limit exposure to this form of marketing. Opportunities to use new media to advance tobacco control are also discussed and future research possibilities are proposed. DATA SOURCES Published articles and grey literature reports were identified through searches of th...

New developments in tobacco control.

Welcome to Issue 3 of Public Health Research & Practice, where we explore the theme of tobacco control and the opportunities for policy makers and practitioners to work to reduce the burden of tobacco-related disease on government, the healthcare system and communities. There is general consensus that Australia’s comprehensive approach to tobacco control – strong regulation at federal and state...

Tool 5. Tobacco Control Understand and Evaluate the Impact of Tobacco Control Policies on Employment

Tobacco taxes as a tobacco control strategy.

BACKGROUND Increases in tobacco taxes are widely regarded as a highly effective strategy for reducing tobacco use and its consequences. METHODS The voluminous literature on tobacco taxes is assessed, drawing heavily from seminal and recent publications reviewing the evidence on the impact of tobacco taxes on tobacco use and related outcomes, as well as that on tobacco tax administration. RE...