Global policy scan of commercial combustible tobacco product retailing regulations by WHO region
Ruth Canty, Coral E Gartner, Janet Hoek, Marita Hefler · 2024
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Description
Canty, Gartner, Hoek, and Hefler scan in twenty twenty-five how countries regulate shops that sell smoked tobacco. Shop density and closeness to schools run higher in poorer areas, and easy access normalises smoking and undermines quitting. The team gathered laws, reports, and expert leads from every world health region to map what rules exist.
Many places set a minimum buying age and limit shop-window promotion, but few attack availability head-on. Some use licences with fees, caps on licence counts, or rules on shop type and distance from youth spaces. A very few places have ended tobacco retail outright. The authors urge licensing, caps, and distance limits at minimum, backed by monitoring and enforcement.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ruth Canty, Coral E Gartner, Janet Hoek, Marita Hefler |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 30 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |