Review of The Impact of Implementing Tobacco Control Policies: The 2017 Tobacco Control Policy Scorecard

The Tobacco Control Scorecard was first published in 2004.[2] This was a 2017 update. A review of recent studies of demand-reducing tobacco policies for high-income countries

The 2004 Scorecard estimated the policy effect sizes on smoking initiation, cessation, and prevalence for a broader set of policies that included health warnings and advertising bans.

The 2004 report said there was effectiveness evidence of the policies. There was moderate to strong evidence for success of cigarette price increases, smoke-free air laws (SFALs), mass media campaigns (MMCs). There was limited evidence of effectiveness for cessation treatment policies, graphic health warnings, tobacco marketing restrictions.

The 2017 scorecard included several types of studies that looked at policies including cigarette taxes, smoke-free air laws, media campaigns, comprehensive tobacco control programs, marketing bans, health warnings, cessation treatment policies.[1]

The 2017 review had a narrative review of reviews and studies which were published from January 1, 2000, to June 30, 2016, and added since 2004. These were tobacco control programs, graphic health warnings, and marketing bans. Evaluation studies measured the effects of policies on smoking behaviors. The 2017 methods and analyses of interventions included cigarette taxes, SFALs, marketing restrictions, comprehensive tobacco…