Tobacco Control (journal)

Tobacco Control is an international peer-reviewed journal covering the nature and consequences of tobacco use worldwide; tobacco's effects on population health, the economy, the environment, and society; efforts to prevent and control the global tobacco epidemic through population-level education and policy changes; the ethical dimensions of tobacco control policies; and the activities of the tobacco industry and its allies.

Tobacco Control

Subject	Tobacco use
Language	English
Edited by	Marita Hefler[1]
Publication details
History	1992-present
Publisher	BMJ Group
Frequency	Bi-monthly
Impact factor	4.0 (2023)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Tob. Control
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ISSN	0964-4563 (print) 1468-3318 (web)
OCLC no.	60627031
Links
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It was established in 1992 and is published by BMJ Group. The founding editor-in-chief was Ronald Davis (Michigan Department of Community Health),^[2] and the current one is Marita Hefler (Charles Darwin University).^[1]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 4.0.^[3]

Editors

The following people have served as editor-in-chief of the journal:

• 1992-1998: Ronald Davis (Michigan Department of Community Health)^[2][4]
• 1998-2008: Simon Chapman (University of Sydney)^[5]
• 2009-2023: Ruth Malone (University of California San Francisco)^[6][1]
• Since 2023 : Marita Hefler (Charles Darwin University)^[1]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed
• Current Contents/Clinical Medicine
• Current Contents/Social & Behavioural Sciences
• Science Citation Index
• Social Sciences Citation Index
• Google Scholar
• CINAHL

See also

• Addiction medicine
• Smoking cessation
• Tobacco control
• Tobacco harm reduction