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March Issue: PMI- funded foundation for a smoke-free world: application of criteria to assess funding models that include financial support from the tobacco industry. bit.ly/4lfRZF1

March Issue: Improving estimates of the illicit cigarette trade through collaboration: lessons from two studies of Malaysia. bit.ly/42weaiQ @JRBranston @AllenGallagher_ @WencyBui

March Issue: A tobacco product standard prohibiting menthol and other flavours can be optimised by completely banning additives with flavour/sensory properties across all tobacco product categories and components. bit.ly/4lfI02l @cnkyriakos @gfong570

March Issue: Systematic review and meta-analysis of text messaging interventions to support tobacco cessation - Findings suggest that text messaging- based interventions are effective at promoting smoking cessation. bit.ly/3E3dWq8 @ChenealPuljevic @CoralGartner @kyliemorphett

March Issue: Viewing images of point-of-sale cigarette promotions can causally increase cravings to smoke, which may also apply to real-world retail settings that display cigarette promotions. bit.ly/3DTHpmt @MaryEEAndrews

March Issue: The tobacco-free nicotine- modified version of the FDA-mandated nicotine addiction warning label was associated with reduced risk perceptions and, for subgroups of participants including those who do not use tobacco products, increased use intentions. bit.ly/4clDnjm

March Issue: Tobacco retailer density was positively associated with cigarette smoking prevalence in all regions of South Korea, but the strength of the association varied by region. bit.ly/3FSZvFI

March Issue: This study provides a comparative analysis of countries’ excise burdens and systems for ENDS/ENNDS, draws trends from the 54 counties that have amended their tax code to include ENDS/ENNDS, and provides relevant recommendations and considerations for taxation of these products. bit.ly/4jmFq9f

March Issue: Marketing themes found on websites often related to physical health benefits of e-cigarette use. Few websites contained statements that discouraged minors from using e-cigarette products, while most websites allowed users to sign up for email newsletters without creating age-verified accounts bit.ly/3FVeDlS @hwipfli

March Issue: This study documents tobacco product purchases and prices paid in Australia over a period which included nine large tax increases and the introduction of plain packaging, identifying a significant increase in cost- minimising purchasing patterns (RYO, large-sized pack and economy brand shifts from large to small-sized economy packs). bit.ly/4lhmkTs @Ara_JCho @CoralGartner

March Issue: This double- blind within-subject randomised experiment provides the first evidence that enhancing flavoured e-cigarettes by adding synthetic cooling agent WS-23 (or menthol to some extent) heightens the perceived appeal and sensory experience of vaping—an effect that did not vary across the product’s base characterising flavour and nicotine concentration or the users’ nicotine/tobacco use status. bit.ly/42iEz2v

March Editor's Choice: Although 38 US states and Washington, DC offered film incentives, only four states placed restrictions related to tobacco and none placed restrictions related to cannabis. Of the 238 local film offices we surveyed, five included restrictions on tobacco and one included restrictions on cannabis. bit.ly/4clNFQH

March Issue: Findings from this randomised controlled trial in US adults show that three exposures to the same series of nicotine corrective messages over 3 months reduced adults’ false beliefs about nicotine, nicotine replacement therapy, e- cigarettes and reduced nicotine content (RNC) cigarettes at follow-up. bit.ly/4lhJOb9

March Issue: In an observational study including ecological momentary assessment, measures of subjective effects and behavioural economic measures, three combustible menthol cigarette alternative products currently available on the market demonstrated substitutability for usual brand menthol cigarettes. bit.ly/3E9ScJ7 @TheodoreWagener

March Issue: Researchers find that the mortality among people who have quit smoking was close to that of people who have never smoked, except for a higher mortality for lung cancer, which on the other hand was much lower than the lung cancer mortality in people who currently smoke. bit.ly/3XIhULr @aatverdal

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March Editorial: Responding to US executive orders and Trump 2.0: ideological language bans and attempts to suppress science will not obscure the tobacco epidemic’s foundations of exploitation and inequity. bit.ly/4iXbS26 @m_hef

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