Three independent non-food Scientific Committees provide the Commission with the scientific advice it needs when preparing policy and proposals relating to consumer safety, public health and the environment. The Committees also draw the Commission's attention to the new or emerging problems which may pose an actual or potential threat. SCENIHR Questions concerning emerging or newly-identified r...

OBJECTIVES Evaluate trends from 2011-2015 in electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use among U.S. adolescents, grades 6-12, including prevalence and associations with past month use of cigarettes and other tobacco products, cigarette smoking intensity, quit attempts, and quit contemplation. METHODS Five consecutive waves from the National Youth Tobacco Survey (N = 101,011) were used to estimate ...

Athletes are not a typical at-risk group for smoking combustible tobacco products, because they are generally health conscious and desire to remain fit and optimize athletic performance (1). In contrast, smokeless tobacco use historically has been associated with certain sports, such as baseball (2). Athletes might be more likely to use certain tobacco products, such as smokeless tobacco, if th...

Cigarettes are very efficient, but exceedingly 'dirty', nicotine delivery systems. Although nicotine creates dependency, it is the contaminated delivery system that causes tobacco-related harm. With an annual global tobacco market > USD$300 billion, and a large proportion of the > 1 billion tobacco users seeking to avoid the 50% risk of death, there should be a huge market for alternative nicot...

Misinformation about tobacco products is ubiquitous in the public communication environment. This information is promulgated via tobacco product marketing strategies as well as the inferences that consumers make and then circulate to others in the fast-moving new media world. Misinformation can be explicit or implicit. Explicit misinformation is factually incorrect (low nicotine cigarettes are ...

The issue of harm reduction has long been controversial in the public health practice of tobacco control. Health advocates have been reluctant to endorse a harm reduction approach out of fear that tobacco companies cannot be trusted to produce and market products that will reduce the risks associated with tobacco use. Recently, companies independent of the tobacco industry introduced electronic...

BACKGROUND Cigar and e-cigarette use is becoming increasingly common among US tobacco users and the Food and Drug Administration recently asserted regulatory jurisdiction over these products, among others, in May 2016. Research on tobacco dependence among users of these products is limited, however. We therefore examined several symptoms of dependence and cessation intentions among adult cigare...

The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (TCA) was signed into law on June 22, 2009, and provided the Food and Drug Adinistration (FDA) broad regulatory authority with repect to the manufacture, marketing, and distribution of obacco products. The three public health goals of the enter for Tobacco Products (CTP), FDA, are to prevent outh initiation of tobacco use, decrease harm and/...

OBJECTIVE To review the impact of New Zealand's tobacco control programme from 1985 to 1998 on smoking prevalence and tobacco consumption, and to estimate the scope for further reduction. DESIGN Country case study; interventions, with outcomes ranked internationally across time. SETTING New Zealand 1985-98; for 1985-95, 23 OECD countries. INTERVENTIONS Between 1985 and 1998, New Zealand e...