Challenges and opportunities in implementing and enforcing India’s loose cigarette sales ban: A qualitative stakeholder analysis

• Mayank Sakhuja ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: msakhuja@unc.edu

  Affiliations UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America, Department of Health Promotion, Education and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8688-1985

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• Daniela B. Friedman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Promotion, Education and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States of America

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• Mark M. Macauda,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Promotion, Education and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States of America

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• James R. Hebert,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States of America

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• Mangesh S. Pednekar,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Healis Sekhsaria Institute for Public Health, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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• Prakash C. Gupta,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Healis Sekhsaria Institute for Public Health, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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• James F. Thrasher

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Promotion, Education and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States of America

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