public support for this type of policy intervention has been found in at least two countries.2123 In addition to the actual flavours in tobacco products, research has found that consumer appeal is influenced by the presence of flavour descriptors, imagery and colours on the product packaging.24 25 In this sample of kreteks and cigarettes from Indonesia, we observed that many of the packs of flavoured products had bright colours and designs similar to those that have been found to be appealing to youth.2628 Thus, restrictions on the use of imagery, descriptors and colours that may connote flavours, including those with concept descriptors, could be a valuable complement to tobacco flavour bans
Temperature: High temperatures can accelerate the breakdown of tobacco and the chemicals present in cigarettes
Flipping through the sports section, bleary-eyed with my coffee, and BAM
Worldwide, tobacco use is the sixth leading cause of lost disability-adjusted life-years, a measurement that combines the effects of morbidity and mortality for comparative purposes between and across health outcomes (Murray and Lopez, 1997)