scholarly journals Association between tobacco prices and smoking onset: evidence from the TCP India Survey

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (Suppl 1) ◽  
pp. s3-s8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ce Shang ◽  
Frank J Chaloupka ◽  
Prakash C Gupta ◽  
Mangesh S Pednekar ◽  
Geoffrey T Fong
Keyword(s):  
Cigarette Smoking ◽  
Tobacco Control ◽  
Tobacco Use ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
State Level ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Smoking Onset ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Discrete Time Hazard Model ◽  
Cigarette Prices

BackgroundTobacco use is prevalent among youth and adults in India. However, direct evidence on how increasing taxes or prices affect tobacco use onset is scarce.ObjectiveTo analyse the associations between cigarette and bidi prices and smoking onset in India, and how these associations differ by socioeconomic status.MethodologyThe Wave 1 of the Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation India Survey by the International Tobacco Control Project contains information on the age at smoking onset for cigarettes and bidis. Using this information, data were expanded to a yearly pseudo-panel dataset that tracked respondents at risk of smoking onset from 1998 to 2011. The associations between bidi prices and bidi smoking onset, between cigarette prices and cigarette smoking onset, and between bidi and cigarette prices and any smoking onset were examined using a discrete-time hazard model with a logit link function. Stratified analyses were conducted to examine the difference in these associations by rural versus urban division.ResultsWe found that higher bidi prices were significantly associated with a lowered hazard of bidi smoking onset (OR 0.42, 95% CI 0.35 to 0.51). Higher cigarette prices were significantly (OR 0.87, 95% CI 0.83 to 0.92) associated with a lowered hazard of cigarette smoking onset among urban residents, but this association was non-significant when SEs were clustered at the state level. In addition, the association between increasing bidis prices and lowered hazards of bidi smoking onset was greater for urban residents than for rural ones (p<0.01).ConclusionsUnder the new regime of a central goods and service system, policymakers may need to raise the prices of tobacco products sufficiently to curb smoking onset.

State-Level Point-of-Sale Tobacco News Coverage and Policy Progression Over a 2-Year Period

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison E. Myers ◽  
Brian G. Southwell ◽  
Kurt M. Ribisl ◽  
Sarah Moreland-Russell ◽  
J. Michael Bowling ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tobacco Control ◽  
Control Method ◽  
Empirical Relationship ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
State Level ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Media Advocacy ◽  
Point Of Sale ◽  
Source Use

Background. Mass media content may play an important role in policy change. However, the empirical relationship between media advocacy efforts and tobacco control policy success has rarely been studied. We examined the extent to which newspaper content characteristics (volume, slant, frame, source, use of evidence, and degree of localization) that have been identified as important in past descriptive studies were associated with policy progression over a 2-year period in the context of point-of-sale (POS) tobacco control. Method. We used regression analyses to test the relationships between newspaper content and policy progression from 2012 to 2014. The dependent variable was the level of implementation of state-level POS tobacco control policies at Time 2. Independent variables were newspaper article characteristics (volume, slant, frame, source, use of evidence, and degree of localization) and were collected via content analysis of the articles. State-level policy environment contextual variables were examined as confounders. Results. Positive, significant bivariate relationships exist between characteristics of news content (e.g., high overall volume, public health source present, local quote and local angle present, and pro–tobacco control slant present) and Time 2 POS score. However, in a multivariate model controlling for other factors, significant relationships did not hold. Discussion. Newspaper coverage can be a marker of POS policy progression. Whether media can influence policy implementation remains an important question. Future work should continue to tease out and confirm the unique characteristics of media content that are most associated with subsequent policy progression, in order to inform media advocacy efforts.

Gender, women, and the future of tobacco control

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-262
Author(s):  
Alexandra Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Tobacco Control ◽  
Tobacco Use ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
Content Type

Purpose This paper aims to provide a gendered analysis of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) benchmarked upon the global commitments to women’s health and well-being in the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. It reviews evidence of the global consequences of neglecting women’s tobacco use and health, as well as analyzes persistent issues related to sex and gender that compromise the efficacy of tobacco control and science. Actionable recommendations are made to the Conference of the Parties to the FCTC and other key stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws upon empirical studies, literature reviews and global health data at the varying intersections of gender, sex, tobacco and global health. Findings The global tobacco control framework and its implementation by state governments have been largely gender blind to date with dire health and economic consequences, including inequitable positive outcomes for men compared to women, and an increase in women’s smoking with associated morbidity and mortality. Gender equitable progress in combatting the tobacco epidemic will not be possible without resolving the gender bias, stigmatization, sexism and lack of intersectionality that plague tobacco control policy, research and interventions for cessation and harm reduction. Originality/value This paper provides an updated global overview of current trends in women’s tobacco use and comprehensively details the persistent structural barriers in tobacco control and science that limit their capacity to effectively analyze and address tobacco use and its impact on women.

Cigarette Smoking from Adolescence to Adulthood

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie Chassin ◽  
Clark C. Presson ◽  
Jonathan T. Macy ◽  
Steven J. Sherman
Keyword(s):  
Cigarette Smoking ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
Tobacco Use ◽  
Smoking Status ◽  
Smoking Behavior ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Societal Change ◽  
Developmental Approach ◽  
Smoking Onset

In this chapter, findings from a long-term, cohort-sequential, multigenerational study of cigarette smoking are used to illustrate the importance of a developmental approach for (1) understanding trajectories of smoking behavior (in relation to other forms of tobacco use) and the conditions and challenges of the developmental periods that show transitions in smoking status (particularly adolescent smoking onset and challenges for parents with adolescent children), (2) understanding heterogeneity in these trajectories because differing trajectories may have different etiological underpinnings as well as different implications for the intergenerational transmission of smoking, (3) recognizing that development unfolds within the larger context of societal and historical change and that societal change can influence outcomes, and (4) considering development within a family systems and multigenerational context.

scholarly journals Tobacco control policy and adolescent cigarette smoking status in the United States

2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 875-885 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. T. Botello-Harbaum ◽  
D. L. Haynie ◽  
R. J. Iannotti ◽  
J. Wang ◽  
L. Gase ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cigarette Smoking ◽  
Tobacco Control ◽  
Smoking Status ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Tobacco Control Policy

scholarly journals Awareness of pro-tobacco advertising and promotion and beliefs about tobacco use: Findings from the Tobacco Control Policy (TCP) India Pilot Survey

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maansi Bansal-Travers ◽  
Geoffrey T. Fong ◽  
Anne C.K. Quah ◽  
Genevieve Sansone ◽  
Mangesh S. Pednekar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tobacco Control ◽  
Tobacco Use ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
Tobacco Control Policy ◽  
Tobacco Advertising ◽  
Pilot Survey ◽  
Advertising And Promotion

scholarly journals Healthy People Countdown 2030: reaching 5% cigarette smoking prevalence among US adults through state cigarette excise tax increases

2021 ◽  
pp. tobaccocontrol-2021-056755
Author(s):  
Nigar Nargis
Keyword(s):  
Cigarette Smoking ◽  
Tobacco Control ◽  
Rhode Island ◽  
Smoking Prevalence ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
Healthy People ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Excise Tax ◽  
Linear Trends

ObjectiveThe Healthy People 2030 goal is to reduce US current adult cigarette smoking prevalence to 5% by 2030. The objective of this report is to investigate if this goal is achievable using state cigarette excise tax increases.MethodsState-specific linear trends in smoking prevalence over 2011–2019 were determined using fractional logit regression and compared with the desired linear trends for achieving 5% smoking prevalence by 2030 in individual states and the District of Columbia (DC). The gaps between price-adjusted and desired trends were used in a simulation model for identifying state-specific systematic annual increases in state cigarette excise tax rates based on state-specific price elasticity of smoking prevalence, maintaining the status quo in other non-tax tobacco control measures.ResultsThe price-adjusted trends in smoking prevalence observed over 2011–2019 exceed the desired trends for achieving 5% smoking prevalence target by 2030 in only five states (eg, Washington, Utah, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Maryland) and the DC. It suggests that majority of states and USA overall will miss the target smoking prevalence at the current rate of reduction in smoking. 45 states would need systematic annual increases in cigarette excise tax rate in a range of $0.02–$1.37 per pack over 2022–2030 to meet the target.ConclusionsThe feasibility of reaching the Healthy People 2030 goal would critically depend on the acceleration of progress in tobacco control. Tax increases tailored to the needs of individual states combined with scaled-up non-tax tobacco control policy interventions can help achieve the desired progress.

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