Tobacco Control

Tobacco Control is an international peer-reviewed journal published by BMJ Publishing Group that studies the nature and consequences of tobacco use worldwide. It was launched in 1992 and appears six times a year, so that the July 2026 issue is volume 35 number 4. The metrics published with the journal give a five-year impact factor of 3.8, a CiteScore of 10.6 and a median of 75 days from submission to a decision taken after review.《烟草控制》是 BMJ Publishing Group 出版的一份国际同行评审期刊，研究全球烟草使用的性质与后果。该刊创刊于 1992 年，每年出六期，2026 年 7 月那一期为第 35 卷第 4 期。随刊公布的指标为五年影响因子 3.8，CiteScore 10.6，含评审的投稿至决定中位数为 75 天。

Scope

• The journal sets out to study the nature and consequences of tobacco use worldwide, and it lists tobacco's effects on population health, the economy, the environment and society among its subjects.该刊以研究全球烟草使用的性质与后果为目标，并把烟草对人群健康，经济，环境与社会的影响列为选题。

• It also covers efforts to prevent and control the global tobacco epidemic through population-level education and policy changes.它同样关注以人群层面的教育与政策变革来预防和控制全球烟草流行的努力。

• The ethical dimensions of tobacco policy form another declared subject, alongside the activities of the tobacco industry and its allies.烟草控制政策的伦理维度是另一项公开列出的主题，与之并列的是烟草行业及其同盟的活动。

• The journal presents itself as essential reading for public health professionals, researchers, policy makers and educators.该刊把自己定位为公共卫生专业人员，研究者，政策制定者与教育者的必读文献。

• A typical issue carries an editorial, a news analysis, original research, special communications, short reports, letters, an industry watch and an ad watch.一期常见的内容有社论，新闻评论，原创研究，特别通讯，简报，来信，行业观察与广告观察。

• The industry watch and ad watch sections track what tobacco companies and their marketing partners do, and several recent issues deal with nicotine pouches, heated tobacco products and market enforcement.行业观察与广告观察两栏追踪烟草公司及其营销伙伴的所作所为，近期多期讨论了尼古丁袋，加热烟草制品与市场执法。

• The journal has devoted supplements to the economics of tobacco, to impact assessment of the world health organization framework convention and to taxation in low- and middle-income countries.该刊出过若干增刊，主题涵盖烟草控制经济学，《烟草控制框架公约》的影响评估，以及中低收入国家的烟草税收。

• A news and views blog runs alongside the journal, and the journal maintains podcast and video channels, including a short film in which the editor-in-chief sets out her priorities.期刊之外还运营一个新闻与评论博客，并设有播客与视频频道，其中包括一支由主编讲述其工作重点的短片。

• Papers on electronic cigarettes, oral nicotine pouches, the illicit trade in tobacco and the marketing of flavoured products make up a substantial part of what appears in print.讨论电子烟，口含尼古丁袋，烟草非法贸易与调味产品营销的论文，在刊出的内容中占相当比重。

• The archive covers every issue from March 1992 to the present, and the journal publishes in English with summaries of some articles in other languages.存档部分覆盖 1992 年 3 月至今的每一期，该刊以英文发表，部分文章另附其他语种的摘要。

• The journal is owned by BMJ, and it complies with funder mandates including Plan S while keeping a subscription model with a hybrid open access option.该刊由 BMJ 拥有，遵守包括 Plan S 在内的资助方要求，同时保留订阅模式并提供混合开放获取选项。

• Alongside its articles the journal keeps a responses section and a list of top cited papers, and the archive can be browsed by decade.除文章之外，该刊还设有回应专栏与高被引论文列表，存档部分可按年代浏览。

History

• The first issue appeared in March 1992, and the volume numbering has run without a break since, so that volume 31 in 2022 was followed by volume 35 in 2026.创刊号于 1992 年 3 月出版，其后卷号连续未断，2022 年出到第 31 卷，2026 年出到第 35 卷。

• The early run of the journal is preserved in a reduced form, since full text and abstracts are available from March 1998 while the years from March 1992 to December 1997 offer a PDF and abstracts only.该刊早期卷次以简化形式保存，1998 年 3 月起提供全文与摘要，而 1992 年 3 月至 1997 年 12 月只提供 PDF 与摘要。

• (Ron Davis), listed on the editorial board page as the founding editor, was born in 1956 and died in 2008, and the journal published a memorial to him in volume 18 number 1.编委页面把（Ron Davis）列为创刊主编，他生于 1956 年，卒于 2008 年，该刊在第 18 卷第 1 期刊出了纪念他的文章。

• Two later editors-in-chief, (Simon Chapman) and (Ruth Malone), appear on the same page as editors emeritus.同页把（Simon Chapman）与（Ruth Malone）这两位后来的主编列为卸任编辑。

• The thirtieth year of publication was marked in 2022, when the first editorial of volume 31 was written by (Ruth Malone) and carried the title 'Growth of a movement: 30 years on'.2022 年迎来出版三十周年，第 31 卷的首篇社论由（Ruth Malone）撰写，题目为《运动仍在成长，出版三十年后》。^[1]

• A separate anniversary page was put online for the thirtieth year, carrying a special issue and an infographic of the journal's milestones.出版三十周年之际，网站另设了一页周年专题，载有专号与一张刊史信息图。

• The National Library of Medicine catalogue still records the frequency as quarterly, a description that fits the early volumes, while the present schedule is bi-monthly.美国国立医学图书馆的编目仍把刊期记为季刊，这与早期各卷相符，而现行刊期已是双月刊。

• Indexing coverage has also changed over the years, with MEDLINE taking the journal from volume 5 number 1 in the spring of 1996 while PubMed holds the whole run from volume 1 number 1 in March 1992.收录范围也随年份变化，MEDLINE 自 1996 年春季的第 5 卷第 1 期起收录该刊，PubMed 则自 1992 年 3 月的第 1 卷第 1 期起覆盖全卷。

• The catalogue entry carries PubMed Central with a status of inactive, so the journal is no longer deposited there in full, even though the publisher's own list still names a special open access collection.编目记录中的 PubMed Central 一项标注为不活跃，该刊已不再整份存入该库，而出版方自己的收录名单仍列有一个开放获取特辑。

• The journal reports a median of nine days to a first decision without review, 75 days with review and 18 days from acceptance to publication, and an acceptance rate of 28 per cent.该刊报告的指标为不含评审的首次决定中位数 9 天，含评审 75 天，接收至出版 18 天，接受率 28%。

• Total content views reached 348986 and Altmetric mentions 1727 in the snapshot published with the journal's metrics, and the CiteScore rank was 11 of 387.在随刊页指标公布的快照中，内容总浏览量为 348986 次，Altmetric 提及 1727 条，CiteScore 排名为 387 份期刊中的第 11 位。

Editors

• (Marita Hefler) is editor-in-chief of the journal and works at the College of Medicine and Public Health at Flinders University in Darwin, Australia.（Marita Hefler）担任该刊主编，任职于澳大利亚达尔文的弗林德斯大学医学院与公共卫生学院。

• (Lisa Henriksen) is deputy editor and is based at Stanford University School of Medicine in the United States.（Lisa Henriksen）任副主编，任职于美国的斯坦福大学医学院。

• Six senior editors sit alongside them, among them (Joaquin Barnoya) of Guatemala, (Robert Branston) of the University of Bath, (Catherine Egbe) of the South African Medical Research Council, (Janet Hoek) of the University of Otago, (Heewon Kang) of Seoul National University and (Richard O'Connor) of Roswell Park Cancer Institute.与他们并列的是六位资深编辑，其中包括危地马拉的（Joaquin Barnoya），巴斯大学的（Robert Branston），南非医学研究委员会的（Catherine Egbe），奥塔哥大学的（Janet Hoek），首尔大学的（Heewon Kang）与罗斯威尔帕克癌症研究所的（Richard O'Connor）。

• (Ruth Canty) is news editor and works at the College of Medicine and Public Health at Flinders University, and (Becky Freeman) is assistant editor for web, new media and the lighter side at the University of Sydney.（Ruth Canty）任新闻编辑，任职于弗林德斯大学医学院与公共卫生学院，（Becky Freeman）任网站与新媒体轻松话题助理编辑，任职于悉尼大学。

• Eight consulting editors cover methods and statistics, including (Pete Driezen) and (David Hammond) of the University of Waterloo, (Karen Messer) of the University of California San Diego, (Todd Rogers) of RTI and (Nina Schleicher) of the Stanford Prevention Research Center.八位方法与统计顾问编辑中，有滑铁卢大学的（Pete Driezen）与（David Hammond），加州大学圣迭戈分校的（Karen Messer），RTI 的（Todd Rogers）与斯坦福预防研究中心的（Nina Schleicher）。

• Policy advocacy has its own consulting editors, among them (Mary Assunta), (Florence Berteletti), (Cynthia Callard) and (Tih Ntiabang), while economics is covered by (Frank Chaloupka).政策倡导方向另设顾问编辑，其中有（Mary Assunta），（Florence Berteletti），（Cynthia Callard）与（Tih Ntiabang），经济学方向由（Frank Chaloupka）担任顾问编辑。

• Eight regional editors look after Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, Australasia, North America, Europe, South Asia, Asia-Pacific and Africa, and they include (Coral Gartner), (Anna Gilmore), (Monika Arora), (Quan Gan), (Rima Nakkash) and (James Thrasher).八位区域编辑分别负责拉丁美洲与加勒比地区，中东，大洋洲，北美，欧洲，南亚，亚太与非洲，其中有（Coral Gartner），（Anna Gilmore），（Monika Arora），（Quan Gan），（Rima Nakkash）与（James Thrasher）。

• The associate editors each take a subject, covering addiction and pharmacology, the economics of tobacco, historical perspectives on policy, human rights and advocacy, illicit trade, litigation and regulation, marketing, product design, secondhand smoke, tobacco farming and the industry.各位副主编各领一个方向，涵盖成瘾与药理学，烟草控制经济学，政策史视角，人权与倡导，非法贸易，诉讼与监管，营销，产品设计，二手烟，烟草种植与产业本身。

• (Kenneth Warner) chairs the editorial advisory board, which numbers 18 members, and the publishing team lists (Frank Greenwood) as publisher and (Kathleen Lyons) as head of portfolio.（Kenneth Warner）担任编辑顾问委员会主席，该委员会共 18 位成员，出版团队列出（Frank Greenwood）为出版人，（Kathleen Lyons）为组合负责人。

• The board has agreed to follow the BMJ editor roles and responsibilities guidelines, including the editor policy on competing interests, and the editorial office runs on the address tobaccocontrol@bmj.com.编委已同意遵循 BMJ 的编辑角色与责任指南，其中包含编辑利益冲突政策，编辑部另设专用电子邮箱。

• Peer review is single anonymised, so the names of the reviewers are hidden from the author while the authors stay visible to the reviewers.该刊实行单匿名评审，作者姓名对审稿人可见，审稿人姓名对作者隐藏。

• The journal offers two open access routes for its contributors, and it states that it complies with funder mandates including Plan S.该刊为投稿作者提供两条开放获取通道，并声明遵守包括 Plan S 在内的资助方要求。