Approximately one in five Vietnamese adults currently smoke. The low average price of cigarette packs in Vietnam (among the world’s lowest) is a factor in the nation’s high smoking rate. Graphic health warning label (HWL) requirements have also not changed since 2012.
Evidence of the tobacco industry’s damaging effect on the planet is vast and growing, despite efforts to communicate otherwise through its highly visible and influential cigarette package designs.
Straw cigarettes are a common tobacco product from Brazil that features tobacco hand-rolled in a corn husk that resembles straw. The use of natural materials and the fact that they are rolled by hand have led some people to believe they are less harmful than cigarettes.
Tobacco companies use flavors and "concept descriptors" to increase the appeal of their products and make them difficult to quit. Our fact sheet breaks down how “Menthol-Plus” cigarettes require tougher bans on flavored tobacco.
Katherine Clegg Smith, PhD, recently published a paper in Tobacco Control about the presence of headshots on many bidi and smokeless tobacco packs collected in Bangladesh and India.
Cigarette packs are an important marketing tool since they are carried around with users and are on display at the point-of-sale. A mixed-methods study was conducted in two phases in Mexico City in collaboration with the National Institute of Public Health (INSP). Findings from this mix
