Table of contents

Research paper

• Smoking-attributable deaths and potential years of life lost from a large, representative study in China (10 September, 2009)

  Jingmei Jiang, Boqi Liu, Freddy Sitas, Junyao Li, Xianjia Zeng, Wei Han, Xiaonong Zou, Yanping Wu, Ping Zhao
• Smoking among rural and urban young women in China (11 October, 2009)

  Michael G Ho, Shaojun Ma, Wanxing Chai, Wan Xia, Gonghuan Yang, Thomas E Novotny
• Secondhand smoke exposure (PM_2.5) in outdoor dining areas and its correlates (21 October, 2009)

  Melissa Cameron, Emily Brennan, Sarah Durkin, Ron Borland, Mark J Travers, Andrew Hyland, Matthew J Spittal, Melanie A Wakefield
• Legislating tolerance: Spain's national public smoking law (21 October, 2009)

  Monique E Muggli, Nikki J Lockhart, Jon O Ebbert, Carlos A Jiménez-Ruiz, Juan Antonio Riesco Miranda, Richard D Hurt
• A simulation model to predict the fiscal and public health impact of a change in cigarette excise taxes (21 October, 2009)

  Corné van Walbeek
• Tobacco coverage in print media: the use of timing and themes by tobacco control supporters and opposition before a failed tobacco tax initiative (3 December, 2009)

  Jenine K Harris, Sarah C Shelton, Sarah Moreland-Russell, Douglas A Luke
• Quit smoking advice from health professionals in Taiwan: the role of funding policy and smoker socioeconomic status (3 December, 2009)

  Fong-ching Chang, Teh-wei Hu, Shu-ying Lo, Po-tswen Yu, Kun-yu Chao, Mei-ling Hsiao
• The effects of smoking and smoking cessation on mortality from cardiovascular disease among Japanese: pooled analysis of three large-scale cohort studies in Japan (11 December, 2009)

  Kaori Honjo, Hiroyasu Iso, Shoichiro Tsugane, Akiko Tamakoshi, Hiroshi Satoh, Kazuo Tajima, Takaichiro Suzuki, Tomotaka Sobue
• The role of taxation in tobacco control and its potential economic impact in China (11 December, 2009)

  Teh-wei Hu, Zhengzhong Mao, Jian Shi, Wendong Chen
• Smoking estimates from around the world: data from the first 17 participating countries in the World Mental Health Survey Consortium (4 December, 2009)

  Carla L Storr, Hui Cheng, Jordi Alonso, Matthias Angermeyer, Ronny Bruffaerts, Giovanni de Girolamo, Ron de Graaf, Oye Gureje, Elie G Karam, Stanislav Kostyuchenko, Sing Lee, Jean-Pierre Lepine, Maria Elena Medina Mora, Landon Myer, Yehuda Neumark, Jose Posada-Villa, Makoto Watanabe, J Elisabeth Wells, Ronald C Kessler, James C Anthony