Trends in Reported Marijuana Vaping Among US Adolescents, 2017-2019

This report from the American Lung Association evaluates tobacco control laws and policies in the United States and their effectiveness in reducing and preventing tobacco use. The report assigns a letter grade (A-F) to state and federal policies based on key targets for effective tobacco control: tobacco prevention and cessation funding, smoke-free air laws, state tobacco excise taxes, access to cessation treatments, and flavored tobacco product laws. The State of Tobacco Control 2024 presents data…

This article from The Lancet estimates the prevalence of global smoking tobacco use and associated disease burden for 204 countries and territories. These estimates are intended to aid decision-makers as they implement national and international tobacco control interventions. In 2019, the authors estimate that 1.14 billion people were currently smoking tobacco products, consuming more than 7 trillion cigarette-equivalents of tobacco that year. While overall prevalence has decreased significantly since 1990 for both sexes, the total…

This article from The Lancet Public Health estimates the spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns in the prevalence of chewing tobacco use using data from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2019. This paper seeks to provide policymakers and health officials an understanding of the health challenges the globe or their individual countries face, as well as how these challenges change over time. The GBD papers incorporate the prevalence of a disease, injury, or risk…