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

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 Internati...

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Main Authors: K. Michael Cummings, Georges J. Nahhas, David T. Sweanor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-05-01
Series:International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/10/3570
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spelling doaj-36356d2948bc4a5d9b4e4669667343ab2020-11-25T03:53:48ZengMDPI AGInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health1661-78271660-46012020-05-01173570357010.3390/ijerph17103570What Is Accounting for the Rapid Decline in Cigarette Sales in Japan?K. Michael Cummings0Georges J. Nahhas1David T. Sweanor2Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USADepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USAFaculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, CanadaThis 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.https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/10/3570cigarettesmarketingpolicynicotinepreventionepidemiology
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author K. Michael Cummings
Georges J. Nahhas
David T. Sweanor
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Georges J. Nahhas
David T. Sweanor
What Is Accounting for the Rapid Decline in Cigarette Sales in Japan?
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
cigarettes
marketing
policy
nicotine
prevention
epidemiology
author_facet K. Michael Cummings
Georges J. Nahhas
David T. Sweanor
author_sort K. Michael Cummings
title What Is Accounting for the Rapid Decline in Cigarette Sales in Japan?
title_short What Is Accounting for the Rapid Decline in Cigarette Sales in Japan?
title_full What Is Accounting for the Rapid Decline in Cigarette Sales in Japan?
title_fullStr What Is Accounting for the Rapid Decline in Cigarette Sales in Japan?
title_full_unstemmed What Is Accounting for the Rapid Decline in Cigarette Sales in Japan?
title_sort what is accounting for the rapid decline in cigarette sales in japan?
publisher MDPI AG
series International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
issn 1661-7827
1660-4601
publishDate 2020-05-01
description 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.
topic cigarettes
marketing
policy
nicotine
prevention
epidemiology
url https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/10/3570
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