Musasizi E, Wipfli H, Arinaitwe J, Atuyambe L, Guy K, Kusolo R, Rutebemberwa E, Guwatudde D. Full Text Tobacco use is a significant public health problem, especially among People Living with HIV (PLWH) yet evidence on its prevalence and multi-level drivers in Uganda remains limited. This study assessed the prevalence and multilevel drivers of tobacco use among PLWH in two regions in northern Uganda.

Tatum Z, Leventhal A, Wipfli HL. Tobacco Control 2024;33:693-694. Abstract Vaping device technology and appearance have transformed from cigarette lookalikes to mod devices, to the discreet and colourful designs of JUUL and its many offshoots. Recent innovations in vaping devices include those that resemble miniature toys, including soda bottles, snow cones and popsicles ( figures 1–3 ). These products piggy-back on the popularity of toy miniatures, driven by TikTok and other

Matt GE, Greiner L, Record R, Wipfli H, et al. Tobacco Control. Published Online First: 01 June 2023. doi:10.1136/tc-2023-057971 Full Text Starting in the 1970s, individuals, businesses and the public have increasingly benefited from policies prohibiting smoking indoors, saving thousands of lives and billions of dollars in healthcare expenditures. Smokefree policies to protect against secondhand smoke exposure, however, do not fully protect the public from the persistent and

S idhu AK*, Pednekar MS, Fong GT, Gupta PC, Quah ACK, Unger J, Sussman S, Sood N, Wipfli H, Valente T. BMC Public Health . 2022 Sep 13;22(1):1738. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-14112-w. Full Text Previous research in high-income countries (HICs) has shown that smokers reduce their cognitive dissonance through two types of justifications over time: risk minimizing and functional beliefs. To date, however, the relationship between these justifications and smoking behaviors over time

Wipfli H, Kim M, Vassey J*, Stanton C. Tobacco Control. 2022 Apr 26:tobaccocontrol-2021-057195. doi:10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2021-057195. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35474025. Full Text Anime, or Japanese animation which combines graphic art, characterisation and cinematography, is experiencing a global boom after having doubled its market size over the past decade. The industry was valued at $23.5 billion in 2020 and is continuing to grow rapidly. Anime is popular among adolesc