Resource Library

Author: Vital Strategies

Watch this webinar in which city leaders share their experiences implementing smoke-free laws, bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship (TAPS) at points of sale, and tobacco vendor licensing policies. Speakers share examples from their work to implement policies for tobacco smoke-free cities, along with the successes, challenges and lessons learned. 

Author: Vital Strategies

Two examples of educational campaign ads that ran in Bangladesh to inform the public of existing laws prohibiting smoking in public places, tobacco advertisements, promotion and sponsorship (TAPS) and sale of tobacco to and by minors. 

Author: Ahuja et al. (2018)

Implementation of tobacco control law by police personnel in India. This study aimed to assess knowledge and attitudes.

Author: Anderson et al. (2020)

This study aims to describe and compare global trends in legislation and compliance of smokefree and TAPS policies between 2009 and 2019.

Author: Thrasher et al. (2008)

This case study describes the impact of the sociocultural and political-economic context of Mexico on WHO-FCTC policy uptake. It examines advancing tobacco control policy through strategic, contextually-specific communication efforts and uses smokefree policy to illustrate barriers to compliance in the Mexican context.

Author: Levy et al. (2013)

This study aims to determine the number of smoking-attributable deaths were averted due to the implementation of MPOWER policies. 

Author: Wynne et al. (2018)

Comprehensive literature review to provide evidence for effective enforcement strategies and suggest measures to improve policy compliance. 

Author: Levy et al. (2018)

This study aims to evaluated the global progress of the six MPOWER measures and their impact across 88 countries that have adopted one or more measure from 2007 to 2014.

Author: Fry et al. (2016)

This study aims to assess vendor licensing compliance and scheme to explore variations in compliance among different retailer types and locations. 

Author: Kennedy et al. (2017)

This study aims to evaluate the implementation of national TAPS law in kiosks across five Russian cities.

Author: Proctor et al. (2010)

This paper proposes a general working taxonomic of eight implementation elements to measure implementation outcomes, advance implementation processes, and improve effectiveness of implementation strategies.

Author: Sebayang et al. (2019)

This policy evaluation reviews the outdoor tobacco advertisement ban in Banyuqangi District East Java, Indonesia. 

Author: He et al. (2018)

This study evaluates the effect of point-of-sale display bans globally as of 2016.

Author: Vyas et al. (2021)

This research assesses compliance with San Francisco's 2018 flavored tobacco sales ban and concludes that retailer education prior to enforcement will result in higher compliance rates. 

Author: Pimple et al. (2014)

This article uses a random sampling process to evaluate compliance with the COPTA legislation in India.