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Introduction In 2018, 26.6% of Chinese adults used tobacco (approximately 300 million current smokers).1 2 Marketing activities by the tobacco industry account in part for the high rate of tobacco use.3 4 Studies from China suggest that exposures to tobacco marketing activities are associated with higher levels of tobacco consumption,5 and increased rates of smoking susceptibility and initiation among young people.5 6 In 2015, China updated the National Advertising Law to restrict tobacco marketing activities in all public places and on mass media (eg, radio, billboards, television).7 However, few regulations address marketing and labelling on the cigarette pack itself
The polling, carried out by YouGov of over 11,000 adults in England, show that two-thirds (68%) of the public support the 'Smokefree Generation' policy, which would ban the sale of tobacco to anyone born after 2009
For example, the popular disposable e-cigarette brand Puff Bar marketed its product during the pandemic as a way to stay sane, advertising it as the perfect escape from back-to-back zoom calls, parental texts, and WFH stress. In addition to supporting research that positions cigarettes as a way to self-medicate and using stress relief themes in marketing, the tobacco industry has even gone so far as to give away cigarettes to psychiatric facilities