WHO study group on tobacco product regulation: report on the scientific basis of tobacco product regulation: ninth report of a WHO study group

This report of the WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation provides the Director-General with scientifically sound, evidence-based recommendations for Member States about tobacco product regulation. The outcomes and recommendations address emerging issues in tobacco product regulation, such as newer ways in which non-therapeutic nicotine, particularly in nicotine products, is promoted and delivered to people in different age groups. The five topics addressed in the report, based on the commissioned background papers for the eleventh meeting of the study group, are enumerated below: