Tobacco Control Podcast

JUUL and other stealth vaporisers: hiding the habit from parents and teachers

Wed, 31 Oct 2018 11:43:00 +0000

In this podcast Becky Freeman, new media editor for Tobacco Control journal, talks to Robert K. Jackler, MD, from Stanford Research into the Impact of Tobacco Advertising at Stanford University. They discuss his recently published paper "JUUL and Other Stealth Vaporizers: Hiding the Habit from Parents and Teachers". Read the full article on the Tobacco Control website:

https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2018/09/15/tobaccocontrol-2018-054455

Japan Tobacco’s corruption of science and health policy via the Smoking Research Foundation

Thu, 30 Aug 2018 16:37:00 +0100

In this episode Becky Freeman talks to Kaori Iida about her research on how the tobacco industry created a research foundation in Japan that has successfully stalled tobacco control and smokefree laws.

Read the article here: https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/27/e1/e3.

Criminal liability for the tobacco industry and its executives

Wed, 25 Jul 2018 12:32:00 +0100

In this episode, Becky Freeman talks to Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy of ASH > Action on Smoking and Health about the tobacco industry and the possibility of pursuing charges of criminal liability.

To read more: Criminal Liability for the Tobacco Industry and its Executives (link to file: https://ash.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ASH-Criminal-Liability.pdf)

Future of tobacco packaging

Mon, 23 Jul 2018 16:44:00 +0100

Becky Freeman talks to long-time tobacco control leader Rob Cunningham of the Canadian Cancer Society about the evolution of pack warnings and plain packaging of tobacco products.

To read more about pack health warnings and plain packaging please see the 2015 Tobacco Control special Issue: http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/24/e1

The Brussels Declaration and tobacco industry interests in science policy

Thu, 07 Jun 2018 00:45:00 +0100

A declaration of interests “should be a new norm in all parties involved in policy-making”. In this episode, Becky Freeman discusses the role of the tobacco industry in the Brussels Declaration with Jim McCambridge. In the second part, she explores tips for spotting tobacco industry involvement in science policy with Lisa Bero. Related papers: - The Brussels Declaration: A vehicle for the advancement of tobacco and alcohol industry interests at the science/policy interface? -http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2018/05/25/tobaccocontrol-2018-054264

- Ten Tips for Spotting Industry Involvement in Science Policy - http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2018/05/25/tobaccocontrol-2018-054386

The motives behind dual use of electronic and smoked cigarettes

Thu, 31 May 2018 01:41:00 +0100

Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) arguably pose fewer health risks than smoking, yet many smokers adopt them without fully relinquishing smoking. In this podcast, Tobacco Control Assisytant Editor Becky Freeman talks with Lindsay Robertson (Cancer Society Social and Behavioural Research Unit, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand) about the reasons behind ‘dual use’ and its public health implications.

Read the full paper on the Tobacco Control website: http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2018/01/31/tobaccocontrol-2017-054070.

Premature deaths could be averted in the United States by replacing cigarettes with e-cigarettes

Fri, 15 Sep 2017 11:30:00 +0100

In this episode, Becky Freeman talks to Dave Levy from Georgetown University Medical Centre about a recent paper entitled "Potential deaths averted in the United States by replacing cigarettes with e-cigarettes".

Please read the article (http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2017/08/30/tobaccocontrol-2017-053759) and the commentary (http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2017/08/30/tobaccocontrol-2017-053969).

Tobacco companies’ use of retailer incentives after a ban on point-of-sale tobacco displays

Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:32:00 +0100

In this podcast Becky Freeman, new media editor for Tobacco Control journal, talks to Martine Stead, Deputy Director at the Institute for Social Marketing in the Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport and the University of Stirling. They discuss her recently published paper "Tobacco companies’ use of retailer incentives after a ban on point-of-sale tobacco displays in Scotland".

Read the full article on the Tobacco Control website: http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2017/07/18/tobaccocontrol-2017-053724.

Achieving a ‘tobacco-free’ UK within two decades: the public health and economic benefits

Wed, 10 May 2017 11:41:00 +0100

In this episode Becky Freeman talks to Daniel Hunt (Department of Prevention, Cancer Research UK) and Laura Webber (Department of Public Health Modelling, UK Health Forum) about their recently published paper "Modelling the implications of reducing smoking prevalence: the public health and economic benefits of achieving a ‘tobacco-free’ UK".

Read the full article published by Tobacco Control here: http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2017/04/20/tobaccocontrol-2016-053507.

E-cigarette Use as a Predictor of Cigarette Smoking

Fri, 21 Apr 2017 13:54:00 +0100

In this episode Becky Freeman talks to Richard Miech about his recently published paper "E-cigarette Use as a Predictor of Cigarette Smoking: Results from a One-Year Follow up of a National Sample of 12th Grade Students"

Full article: http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2017/01/04/tobaccocontrol-2016-053291

The global economic cost of smoking-attributable diseases

Tue, 07 Mar 2017 14:29:00 +0000

In this episode Becky Freeman talks to Mark Goodchild about his recent paper "The global economic cost of smoking-attributable diseases".

Read the full article here: http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2017/01/04/tobaccocontrol-2016-053305.full.

Die Another Day, James Bond’s Smoking over Six Decades

Mon, 30 Jan 2017 11:30:00 +0000

In this episode Becky Freeman talks to Nick Wilson about his recent cover page paper entitled "Die Another Day, James Bond’s Smoking over Six Decade"

Misperceptions of harm among Natural American Spirit smokers

Wed, 07 Dec 2016 16:19:00 +0000

In this episode Becky Freeman talks to Jennifer Pearson about the article recently published in Tobacco Control "Misperceptions of harm among Natural American Spirit smokers: results from wave 1 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) study (2013–2014)."

Full paper>> http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2016/11/10/tobaccocontrol-2016-053265.full

Menthol cigarette bans: Tobacco giants respond with different green labels and soft words in Canada

Mon, 08 Aug 2016 18:38:00 +0100

In this podcast, Becky Freeman speaks with Jennifer Brown and Joanna Cohen, from the Institute for Global Tobacco Control, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Maryland, USA. They are two of the authors of the paper "Tobacco industry response to menthol cigarette bans in Alberta and Nova Scotia, Canada". The study, published in Tobacco Control, found that while menthol cigarettes are not being sold anymore, there are new products on the market that look almost identical to the menthol cigarettes available before the ban and nearly 90 percent of them are being marketed as a different, smoother alternative to regular cigarettes. Menthol cigarette bans were enacted in Nova Scotia in June 2015 and in Alberta in September 2015 and are believed to be the first implemented in the world. The Institute for Global Tobacco Control conducted this research with the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and the Ontario Tobacco Research Unit. For images of the new packages and full details of the study, visit:

http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2016/07/19/tobaccocontrol-2016-053099.full.

Banning tobacco sales near schools in China. The law that never got off the drawing board

Tue, 19 Jul 2016 14:12:00 +0100

In this episode Becky Freeman talks to Amy Ferketich and Ling Wang about their recently published paper "Are Retailers Compliant with Zoning Regulations that Ban Tobacco Sales near Schools in Changsha, China?" Read the full article here:

http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2016/06/24/tobaccocontrol-2015-052787.full

Flavour capsules in the filter: trends in use and brand perceptions among smokers

Wed, 27 Apr 2016 12:55:00 +0100

In this podcast Becky Freeman talks to James Thrasher about his recent paper "Cigarette brands with flavour capsules in the filter: trends in use and brand perceptions among smokers in the USA, Mexico and Australia, 2012–2014". Full text >> http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2015/04/26/tobaccocontrol-2014-052064.full

Related content >> http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2016/04/08/tobaccocontrol-2015-052805.full

Public support for raising the age of sale for tobacco to 21 in the United States

Wed, 30 Mar 2016 15:13:00 +0100

In this podcast Becky Freeman talks to Dr Robert McMillen about his paper in in Tobacco Control entitled "Public support for raising the age of sale for tobacco to 21 in the United States".

They discuss where the public support is the most strong and some surprising findings for people ages 18-24.

E-cigarette use and cigarette smoking onset among high school students in Hawaii

Mon, 18 Jan 2016 11:00:00 +0000

In this podcast Becky Freeman talks to Dr Thomas Willis about his recent paper in Tobacco Control journal entitled "Longitudinal study of e-cigarette use and cigarette smoking onset among high school students in Hawaii".

They discuss the results of the study showing whether e-cigarette use encourages students to take up cigarette smoking. They also note that this is a multi-disciplinary study with inputs from a variety of researchers.

Continuing Challenges to Tobacco Control in China: Findings from the ITC China Project

Mon, 11 Jan 2016 16:02:00 +0000

This podcast debates the findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) China Project. Simon Chapman, Professor School of Public Health University of Sydney, interviews Professor Geoffrey Fong, University of Waterloo in Canada, Principal Investigator of the ITC China Project; Dr. Angela Pratt, WHO China Tobacco Free Initiative representative, Beijing; and Dr. Judith Mackay, Director of the Asian Consultancy on Tobacco Control and Senior Advisor, World Lung Foundation/Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use, Hong Kong. TIMELINE OF THE PODCAST: •02:45 – Overall view of the ITC Project and particularly of the ITC China Project: “An extraordinary time and opportunity… There wasn’t any kind of evidence system capable of evaluating the upcoming tobacco control policies that we knew were going to be implemented throughout the world”; •07:10 – Some of the findings of the second supplement of ITC China Project: “The missed opportunities on warnings on the tobacco packages have affected millions of smokers”; “China’s effort on smoke-free laws have only decreased smoking very, very modestly”; •11:25 – The first years of the Xi Jinping’s government: “Tobacco control policies in China had a tipping point two years ago… ”; •15:00 – “Encouraging times in Beijing: The strongest tobacco control law to date”; •18:10 – “The ITC Project evidence reaches the decision makers in China”; •21:45 – ITC’s next projects: Abu Dhabi and a project across Canada, USA and UK; •25:30 – How quickly the change in tobacco control policies will happen in China?

Read the full supplement here: http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/24/Suppl_4.toc

Evaluation of the Austalian plain packaging policy

Tue, 16 Jun 2015 16:13:00 +0100

In December 2012 Australia became the first jurisdiction to mandate plain (or standardised) packaging for tobacco products. Many governments have been looking on with interest, anxious to learn if this is also the next step forward in their own efforts to tackle the harms caused by tobacco.

In this podcast Becky Freeman introduces several recordings with the key players who were instrumental in the research, writing and publication of the “Implementation and evaluation of the Australian tobacco plain packaging policy” supplement.

Read the full supplement >> http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/24/Suppl_2.toc

The Economics of Tobacco Control (Part 2)

Tue, 16 Jun 2015 10:47:00 +0100

The International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (ITC Project), founded in 2002, systematically evaluates key policies of the WHO FCTC in 22 countries, containing more than 50% of the world’s population, 60% of the world’s smokers and 70% of the world’s tobacco users.

In this podcast Corne Van Walbeek, guest editor of the supplement, speaks to Geoffrey T Fong, University of Waterloo, and Frank Chaloupka, University of Illinois, about the 13 papers in the supplement and the links between the results across different countries.

Active and passive smoking and risk of spontaneous abortion, stillbirth and tubal ectopic pregnancy

Tue, 21 Apr 2015 17:07:00 +0100

Becky Freeman, TC's Assistant Editor; Web & New Media, talks to Andrew Hyland, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, about his paper looking at the associations between tobacco exposure and adverse pregnancy outcomes. Read the full paper:

Associations of lifetime active and passive smoking with spontaneous abortion, stillbirth and tubal ectopic pregnancy: a cross-sectional analysis of historical data from the Women's Health Initiative http://goo.gl/IM1Keh

The 2014 European Tobacco Products Directive and the industry’s attempts to ‘break the health silo’

Wed, 11 Feb 2015 15:25:00 +0000

Becky Freeman, TC assistant editor, talks to Silvy Peeters, University of Bath, about her paper -

The Revision of the 2014 European Tobacco Products Directive: An Analysis of the Tobacco Industry’s Attempts to ‘break the health silo’

Is it better to be a thin smoker or a fat ex-smoker?

Wed, 17 Sep 2014 10:59:00 +0100

Mohammad Siahpush, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Health Promotion, Social & Behavioral Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Public Health. He describes his research as being "about trying to understand what makes people behave the way they do. In looking for answers, I examine characteristics of individuals as well characteristics of the environments where people live.” Weight gain when quitting smoking is a common concern, particularly amongst women. The increased attention of excess weight impacting on health suggests that some smokers may feel they are not achieving any net health benefits from quitting smoking if they gain weight once they stop smoking. In this podcast Becky Freeman, TC Assistant Editor, Web and New Media, talks to Prof Siahpush about his paper examining if it is indeed better to be a thin smoker or a fat ex-smoker. Read the full paper:

It is better to be a fat ex-smoker than a thin smoker: findings from the 1997–2004 National Health Interview Survey−National Death Index linkage study http://goo.gl/OfH037

Economic cost of smoking in people with mental disorders in the UK

Mon, 14 Jul 2014 14:05:00 +0100

Welcome to this first Tobacco Control podcast, which is on the economic cost of smoking in those with mental ill health.

Treatments for mental health disorders and smoking-related diseases account for substantial expenditure in all healthcare systems. At any time in the UK about one in six adults has a mental health disorder, typically anxiety, depression or schizophrenia, while the prevalence of smoking in this group, at 33% in 2007, is around 50% higher than in the general population.

Since people with mental health disorders are also more likely to smoke heavily, this group accounts for as much as 42% of the total national tobacco consumption.

Despite the significant health and financial impacts of smoking in this population, little research into the economic burden has been carried out. But now a study in TC has estimated the economic costs of the health effects of cigarette smoking among people with mental disorders in the UK.

TC assistant editor Becky Freeman talks to lead author Qi Wu, Qi Wu, Mental Health and Addiction Research Group, University of York, about the findings.

Read the paper: http://goo.gl/h5HbBJ