Tobacco Products Directive - new opportunities for EU tobacco control

Quantifying the influence of the tobacco industry on EU governance: automated content analysis of the EU Tobacco Products Directive

OBJECTIVE The tobacco industry spends large sums lobbying the European Union (EU) institutions, yet whether such lobbying significantly affects tobacco policy is not well understood. We used novel quantitative text mining techniques to evaluate the impact of industry pressure on the contested EU Tobacco Products Directive revision. DESIGN Policy positions of 18 stakeholders including the toba...

Young people's perceptions of tobacco packaging: a comparison of EU Tobacco Products Directive & Ireland's Standardisation of Tobacco Act

OBJECTIVES To measure young people's perceptions of tobacco packaging according to two current pieces of legislation: The EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) and Ireland's Public Health (Standardisation of Tobacco Products) Act. DESIGN Within-subject experimental cross-sectional survey of a representative sample of secondary school students. School-based pen and paper survey. SETTING 27 sec...

Tobacco-specific nitrosamines in new tobacco products.

New tobacco products, designed to attract consumers who are concerned about the health effects of tobacco, have been appearing on the market. Objective evaluation of these products requires, as a first step, data on their potentially toxic constituents. Tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs) are an important class of carcinogens in tobacco products, but virtually no data were available on their ...

Tobacco control in Africa: opportunities for prevention.

Research opportunities related to establishing standards for tobacco products under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.

INTRODUCTION This paper was written in response to a request from the U.S. National Cancer Institute. The goal is to discuss some research directions related to establishing tobacco product standards under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which empowers the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco products. Potential research related to tobacco product ingredi...