ArticleTobacco control2018
Heated tobacco products: another tobacco industry global strategy to slow progress in tobacco control.
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- Strengthening tobacco control enforcement in Nigeria: a policy and regulatory analysis supporting an expanded mandate for NAFDAC.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Heated tobacco and cigarette smoke modulate CD4 + T cell activation and neuroinflammation in a context-dependent manner.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2026Article
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- Twisting the truth: How the tobacco industry misleads the public through harm reduction.The Indian journal of medical research · 2025Article
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- Is it about substituting an addiction with another? development and initial psychometric properties of the first heated tobacco products addiction questionnaire (HeaTPAQ).Addiction science & clinical practice · 2025Article
- Associations Between Dual Tobacco Use and Smoking Cessation Intention Among Vietnamese Adults: A Cross Sectional Result From the Vietnam Population-Based Provincial Global Adult Tobacco Survey in 2022-2023.Tobacco use insights · 2025Article
- Investigating oral nicotine pouch use among adults in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: prevalence, awareness, susceptibility, and associated symptoms.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- The Interplay of Tobacco Farming and Tobacco Control: Exploring Socioeconomic and Health Dynamics in Malawi.Public health challenges · 2024Article
- Cytotoxic effects of the cigarette smoke extract of heated tobacco products on human oral squamous cell carcinoma: the role of reactive oxygen species and CaMKK2.The journal of physiological sciences : JPS · 2024Article
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Abstract
There has been a global decline in tobacco consumption that, if continued, will negatively impact the tobacco industry's profits. This decline led the industry to invent and market new products, including heated tobacco products (HTP). HTP are an extension of the industry's strategies to undermine government's tobacco regulatory efforts as they are being promoted as part of the solution for the tobacco epidemic. Under the moniker of 'harm reduction', the tobacco companies are attempting to rehabilitate their reputation so they can more effectively influence governments to roll back existing tobacco control policies or create exemptions for their HTP. Rolling back tobacco control policies will make it easier for the companies to renormalise tobacco use to increase social acceptability for all their products. When regulations are absent or when loopholes exist in classifying HTP as a tobacco product (thus subject to all tobacco control regulations), the industry's marketing of HTP is making these products more visible to the public and more accessible. Governments need to ensure that HTP are regulated as tobacco products or drugs and reject partnerships with the tobacco companies to promote 'harm reduction'. The tobacco companies remain the vector of the tobacco-caused epidemic and cannot be part of the global tobacco control solution.
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