What Is Accounting for the Rapid Decline in Cigarette Sales in Japan?

K Michael Cummings; Georges J Nahhas; David T Sweanor

doi:10.3390/ijerph17103570

What Is Accounting for the Rapid Decline in Cigarette Sales in Japan?

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 May 20;17(10):3570. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17103570.

Authors

K Michael Cummings¹, Georges J Nahhas¹, David T Sweanor²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA.
² Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada.

Abstract

This study describes how trends in the sale of cigarettes in Japan between 2011 and 2019 correspond to the sales of heated tobacco products (HTPs) that were introduced into the Japanese market in late 2015. Data used for this study come from the Tobacco Institute of Japan and Philip Morris International. The findings show that the accelerated decline in cigarette only sales in Japan since 2016 corresponds to the introduction and growth in the sales of HTPs.

Keywords: cigarettes; epidemiology; marketing; nicotine; policy; prevention.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Commerce*
Japan
Nicotiana
Tobacco Industry*
Tobacco Products* / economics

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

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