Tobacco epidemics: Effect of marketing bans and awareness programs on its spread

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Highlights：

• Impact of ban on tobacco advertisement is studied for the first time.

• Static policy focusing on tobacco users is found to be best policy.

• 8 log difference is noticed between the intensity of policies focusing tobacco and non-tobacco users.

• Immigration keeps tobacco epidemics endemic.

• Targeting non-tobacco users with media awareness programs is not beneficial to the cause of reducing epidemics.

摘要

•Impact of ban on tobacco advertisement is studied for the first time.•Static policy focusing on tobacco users is found to be best policy.•8 log difference is noticed between the intensity of policies focusing tobacco and non-tobacco users.•Immigration keeps tobacco epidemics endemic.•Targeting non-tobacco users with media awareness programs is not beneficial to the cause of reducing epidemics.

论文关键词：Tobacco users,Epidemic model,Awareness programs,Advertisement,Mathematical model

论文评审过程：Available online 10 October 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amc.2014.09.076