Impact of tobacco control interventions on smoking initiation, cessation, and prevalence: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT: This article investigates the effects of tobacco control policies on smoking initiation, cessation and prevalence by examining the papers published in the last 5 years. Twenty-one articles have been selected by two authors and sorted by four types of tobacco control: tobacco prices, anti-smoking campaigns for young people, mass media intervention and public smoking bans. Price/tax increase has deterrent effect on smoking initiation but does not promote smoking cessation; intervention on young people could reduce the smoking initiation if carried out at an early age and if acted on social skills and with peer-led approach, as opposed to restraining measures which hare generally easily circumvented by young people. The mass media campaigns showed positive effect on attempts to quit among smo

SUBMITTER: Bafunno D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7399441 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature