Podcasts by TC podcast

JUUL and other stealth vaporisers: hiding the habit from parents and teachers from 2018-10-31T11:43:20

In this podcast Becky Freeman, new media editor for Tobacco Control journal, talks to Robert K. Jackler, MD, from Stanford Research into the Impact of Tobacco Advertising at Stanford University. Th...

Japan Tobacco’s corruption of science and health policy via the Smoking Research Foundation from 2018-08-30T15:37:29

In this episode Becky Freeman talks to Kaori Iida about her research on how the tobacco industry created a research foundation in Japan that has successfully stalled tobacco control and smokefree l...

Criminal liability for the tobacco industry and its executives from 2018-07-25T11:32:38

In this episode, Becky Freeman talks to Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy of ASH>Action on Smoking and Health about the tobacco industry and the possibility of pursuing charges of criminal liability.

To read m...

Future of tobacco packaging from 2018-07-23T15:44:33

Becky Freeman talks to long-time tobacco control leader Rob Cunningham of the Canadian Cancer Society about the evolution of pack warnings and plain packaging of tobacco products.

To read more ab...

The Brussels Declaration and tobacco industry interests in science policy from 2018-06-06T23:45:09

A declaration of interests “should be a new norm in all parties involved in policy-making”. In this episode, Becky Freeman discusses the role of the tobacco industry in the Brussels Declaration wit...

The motives behind dual use of electronic and smoked cigarettes from 2018-05-31T00:41:03

Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) arguably pose fewer health risks than smoking, yet many smokers adopt them without fully relinquishing smoking. In this podcast, Tobacco Control Assisyt...

Premature deaths could be averted in the United States by replacing cigarettes with e-cigarettes from 2017-09-15T10:30:19

In this episode, Becky Freeman talks to Dave Levy from Georgetown University Medical Centre about a recent paper entitled "Potential deaths averted in the United States by replacing cigarettes with...

Tobacco companies’ use of retailer incentives after a ban on point-of-sale tobacco displays from 2017-07-26T15:32:35

In this podcast Becky Freeman, new media editor for Tobacco Control journal, talks to Martine Stead, Deputy Director at the Institute for Social Marketing in the Faculty of Health Sciences and Spor...

Achieving a ‘tobacco-free’ UK within two decades: the public health and economic benefits from 2017-05-10T10:41:30

In this episode Becky Freeman talks to Daniel Hunt (Department of Prevention, Cancer Research UK) and Laura Webber (Department of Public Health Modelling, UK Health Forum) about their recently publ...

E-cigarette Use as a Predictor of Cigarette Smoking from 2017-04-21T12:54:53

In this episode Becky Freeman talks to Richard Miech about his recently published paper "E-cigarette Use as a Predictor of Cigarette Smoking: Results from a One-Year Follow up of a National Sample ...

The global economic cost of smoking-attributable diseases from 2017-03-07T14:29:27

In this episode Becky Freeman talks to Mark Goodchild about his recent paper "The global economic cost of smoking-attributable diseases".

Read the full article here: http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com...

Die Another Day, James Bond’s Smoking over Six Decades from 2017-01-30T11:30:09

In this episode Becky Freeman talks to Nick Wilson about his recent cover page paper entitled "Die Another Day, James Bond’s Smoking over Six Decade"

Misperceptions of harm among Natural American Spirit smokers from 2016-12-07T16:19:17

In this episode Becky Freeman talks to Jennifer Pearson about the article recently published in Tobacco Control "Misperceptions of harm among Natural American Spirit smokers: results from wave 1 of...

Menthol cigarette bans: Tobacco giants respond with different green labels and soft words in Canada from 2016-08-08T17:38:07

In this podcast, Becky Freeman speaks with Jennifer Brown and Joanna Cohen, from the Institute for Global Tobacco Control, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Maryland, USA. They are t...

Banning tobacco sales near schools in China. The law that never got off the drawing board from 2016-07-19T13:12:26

In this episode Becky Freeman talks to Amy Ferketich and Ling Wang about their recently published paper "Are Retailers Compliant with Zoning Regulations that Ban Tobacco Sales near Schools in Chang...

Flavour capsules in the filter: trends in use and brand perceptions among smokers from 2016-04-27T11:55:16

In this podcast Becky Freeman talks to James Thrasher about his recent paper "Cigarette brands with flavour capsules in the filter: trends in use and brand perceptions among smokers in the USA, Mex...

Public support for raising the age of sale for tobacco to 21 in the United States from 2016-03-30T14:13:13

In this podcast Becky Freeman talks to Dr Robert McMillen about his paper in in Tobacco Control entitled "Public support for raising the age of sale for tobacco to 21 in the United States".

They ...

E-cigarette use and cigarette smoking onset among high school students in Hawaii from 2016-01-18T11:00:32

In this podcast Becky Freeman talks to Dr Thomas Willis about his recent paper in Tobacco Control journal entitled "Longitudinal study of e-cigarette use and cigarette smoking onset among high scho...

Continuing Challenges to Tobacco Control in China: Findings from the ITC China Project from 2016-01-11T16:02:03

This podcast debates the findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) China Project. Simon Chapman, Professor School of Public Health University of Sydney, interviews Professor Geoffrey Fo...

Evaluation of the Austalian plain packaging policy from 2015-06-16T15:13:09

In December 2012 Australia became the first jurisdiction to mandate plain (or standardised) packaging for tobacco products. Many governments have been looking on with interest, anxious to learn ...

The Economics of Tobacco Control (Part 2) from 2015-06-16T09:47:33

The International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (ITC Project), founded in 2002, systematically evaluates key policies of the WHO FCTC in 22 countries, containing more than 50% of the w...

Active and passive smoking and risk of spontaneous abortion, stillbirth and tubal ectopic pregnancy from 2015-04-21T16:07:01

Becky Freeman, TC's Assistant Editor; Web&New Media, talks to Andrew Hyland, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, about his paper looking at the associations between tobacco exposure and adverse...

The 2014 European Tobacco Products Directive and the industry's attempts to ‘break the health silo’ from 2015-02-11T15:25:24

Becky Freeman, TC assistant editor, talks to Silvy Peeters, University of Bath, about her paper -

The Revision of the 2014 European Tobacco Products Directive: An Analysis of the Tobacco Industry...

Is it better to be a thin smoker or a fat ex-smoker? from 2014-09-17T09:59:32

Mohammad Siahpush, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Health Promotion, Social&Behavioral Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Public Health. He describes his resear...

Economic cost of smoking in people with mental disorders in the UK from 2014-07-14T13:05:46

Welcome to this first Tobacco Control podcast, which is on the economic cost of smoking in those with mental ill health.

Treatments for mental health disorders and smoking-related diseases...