Oliveira da Silva Andre Luiz, Bialous Stella
DIRE3/GGTAB/CCTAB, Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
School of Nursing and Center for Tobacco Control Research and education, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA.
Tob Control. 2024 Oct 14. doi: 10.1136/tc-2024-058622.
Product design is a key tobacco industry strategy to recruit consumers and hinder cessation. An important technology in tobacco product design is the use of additives including those that create characterising flavours, that is, flavours that are perceived by taste and or smell by the user. To curb youth use, many countries are implementing policies to limit the use of flavours and other additives in tobacco products. This paper reviews the global landscape of tobacco additives policies including those focusing only on flavouring additives, updating a previous review.
We gathered additives policy data from available online sources of tobacco control policies including parties' reports to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (where WHO refers to World Health Organization), the website Tobacco Control Laws, government websites, searches with the Google search engine and consultations with the WHO to ensure comprehensiveness of the assessment. The policies were classified according to their objective and characteristics: Labelling regulations, sales bans and tobacco product design regulations. We classified and organised the regulations according to their stated intent.
We found that 62 countries had tobacco products' additives-related regulations at the regional, national or subnational levels. Most of these regulations focused on flavouring additives especially bans on the selling, importing and manufacturing tobacco products with characterising flavours.
The data demonstrate various global policies addressing additives and/or flavours and a range of definitions of additives and flavours. Establishing common definitions and standards could facilitate cooperation between countries and regions.
产品设计是烟草行业吸引消费者并阻碍戒烟的一项关键策略。烟草产品设计中的一项重要技术是使用添加剂，包括那些能产生特征性风味的添加剂，即使用者通过味觉和/或嗅觉感知到的风味。为了遏制青少年吸烟，许多国家正在实施政策来限制烟草产品中风味剂和其他添加剂的使用。本文回顾了全球烟草添加剂政策的情况，包括那些仅关注调味添加剂的政策，更新了之前的一篇综述。
我们从现有的烟草控制政策在线来源收集添加剂政策数据，包括各缔约方提交给《世界卫生组织烟草控制框架公约》（世卫组织即世界卫生组织）的报告、“烟草控制法律”网站、政府网站、使用谷歌搜索引擎进行的搜索以及与世卫组织的磋商，以确保评估的全面性。这些政策根据其目标和特点进行分类：标签规定、销售禁令和烟草产品设计规定。我们根据其既定意图对这些规定进行分类和整理。
我们发现，62个国家在区域、国家或次国家层面制定了与烟草产品添加剂相关的规定。其中大多数规定聚焦于调味添加剂，尤其是禁止销售、进口和制造带有特征性风味的烟草产品。
数据显示了针对添加剂和/或风味的各种全球政策以及添加剂和风味的一系列定义。建立共同的定义和标准有助于国家和地区之间的合作。
