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. 2025 Mar 24:11.
doi: 10.18332/tpc/202934. eCollection 2025.

Tobacco products: Law applies also to social media

Christopher Heidt  1 , Katrin Schaller  1
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Tobacco products: Law applies also to social media

Christopher Heidt et al. Tob Prev Cessat. .
No abstract available

Keywords: advertising; advocacy; prevention; social media; tobacco products.

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Manufactures and retailers promote HTPs on Instagram and Facebook in Germany: (from left to right) young peer group with heating devices; the heating devices with tobacco sticks (post asks, ‘We ask you: How do you make your IQOS device unique?’); influencer on promotional event; point-of-sale display stand
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