World No Tobacco Day 2018

Every year, on 31 May, WHO and partners mark World No Tobacco Day, highlighting the health and other risks associated with tobacco use, and advocating for effective policies to reduce tobacco consumption. The focus of World No Tobacco Day 2018 is "Tobacco and heart disease," enhancing knowledge on the link between tobacco and heart and other cardiovascular diseases, and this year's theme "tobacco breaks hearts" encompasses that.

BMC are delighted to support World No Tobacco Day by showcasing featured articles, blogs and collections on tobacco, addiction and substance abuse research.

Featured journals

BMC Public Health

As the largest open access public health journal in the world, BMC Public Health is a peer reviewed journal with a broad scope welcoming articles on the epidemiology of disease and the understanding of all aspects of public health.

Smokers’ unprompted comments on cigarette additives during conversations about the genetic basis for nicotine addiction: a focus group study

Subsistence difficulties are associated with more barriers to quitting and worse abstinence outcomes among homeless smokers: evidence from two studies in Boston, Massachusetts

Severity and susceptibility: measuring the perceived effectiveness and believability of tobacco health warnings

Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy

Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy is an open access journal encompassing a range of substance use issues, with a special focus on policy. The journal encourages new ideas on reducing substance misuse and allows researchers to rapidly publish their findings.

Zonnic®: a new player in an old field

Licit and illicit substance use patterns among university students in Germany using cluster analysis

Harm Reduction Journal

Harm Reduction Journal publishes research focusing on the prevalent patterns of psychoactive drug use, the public policies meant to control them, and the search for effective methods of reducing the adverse medical, public health, and social consequences associated with both drugs and drug policies.

Origins in the USA in the 1980s of the warning that smokeless tobacco is not a safe alternative to cigarettes: a historical, documents-based assessment with implications for comparative warnings on less harmful tobacco/nicotine products

Government and public health responses to e-cigarettes in New Zealand: vapers’ perspectives

Electronic cigarette use in Greece: an analysis of a representative population sample in Attica prefecture

All BMC articles are published on the open access model. All articles are free to read, copy, distribute, and use (providing attribution is given).

from Respiratory Research

from Implementation Science

from International Journal for Equity in Health

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Global and local perspectives on tobacco harm reduction: What are the issues and where do we go from here?

This thematic series of Harm Reduction Journal seeks to examine the philosophy, policy culture, effectiveness, implementation, underlying mechanisms and possible unintended consequences of tobacco harm reduction initiatives as a public health intervention. Learn more

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Electronic cigarettes: Investigating the harms and benefits

This series of articles, published in Respiratory Research, provides the newest research and comprehensive background information on e-cigarettes. The articles aim to address the needs of basic researchers, clinicians and other individuals that need up-to-date information on this topic. Learn more

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