The Impact of Implementing Tobacco Control Policies: The 2017 Tobacco Control Policy Scorecard. 2018

David T Levy, and Jamie Tam, and Charlene Kuo, and Geoffrey T Fong, and Frank Chaloupka
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia (Dr Levy and Ms Kou); Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (Ms Tam); Department of Psychology and School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (Dr Fong); Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Dr Fong); and Health Policy Center, Institute for Health Research and Policy, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (Dr Chaloupka).

The Tobacco Control Scorecard, published in 2004, presented estimates of the effectiveness of different policies on smoking rates. Since its publication, new evidence has emerged. We update the Scorecard to include recent studies of demand-reducing tobacco policies for high-income countries. We include cigarette taxes, smoke-free air laws, media campaigns, comprehensive tobacco control programs, marketing bans, health warnings, and cessation treatment policies. To update the 2004 Scorecard, a narrative review was conducted on reviews and studies published after 2000, with additional focus on 3 policies in which previous evidence was limited: tobacco control programs, graphic health warnings, and marketing bans. We consider evaluation studies that measured the effects of policies on smoking behaviors. Based on these findings, we derive estimates of short-term and long-term policy effect sizes. Cigarette taxes, smoke-free air laws, marketing restrictions, and comprehensive tobacco control programs are each found to play important roles in reducing smoking prevalence. Cessation treatment policies and graphic health warnings also reduce smoking and, when combined with policies that increase quit attempts, can improve quit success. The effect sizes are broadly consistent with those previously reported for the 2004 Scorecard but now reflect the larger evidence base evaluating the impact of health warnings and advertising restrictions.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D006291 Health Policy Decisions, usually developed by government policymakers, for determining present and future objectives pertaining to the health care system. Health Care Policies,Health Policies,Healthcare Policy,National Health Policy,Care Policies, Health,Health Care Policy,Health Policy, National,Healthcare Policies,National Health Policies,Policies, Health,Policies, Health Care,Policies, Healthcare,Policy, Health,Policy, Health Care,Policy, Healthcare
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000073865 Cigarette Smoking The SMOKING of CIGARETTES. Smoking, Cigarette
D013660 Taxes Governmental levies on property, inheritance, gifts, etc. Institutional Tax,Institutional Taxes,Tax,Taxation,Tax, Institutional,Taxes, Institutional
D014026 Nicotiana A plant genus of the family SOLANACEAE. Members contain NICOTINE and other biologically active chemicals; the dried leaves of Nicotiana tabacum are used for SMOKING. Tobacco Plant,Nicotiana tabacum,Plant, Tobacco,Plants, Tobacco,Tobacco Plants
D061845 Smoke-Free Policy Prohibition against tobacco smoking in specific areas to control TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION. Smoking Ban,Smoking Prohibition,Ban, Smoking,Bans, Smoking,Policies, Smoke-Free,Policy, Smoke-Free,Prohibition, Smoking,Prohibitions, Smoking,Smoke Free Policy,Smoke-Free Policies,Smoking Bans,Smoking Prohibitions
D019460 Tobacco Industry The aggregate business enterprise of agriculture, manufacture, and distribution related to tobacco and tobacco-derived products. Industry, Tobacco,Industries, Tobacco,Tobacco Industries

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