February 2020
The following is a monthly list of selected journal articles and reports on tobacco topics. Please note that this list is not all-inclusive. We try to choose titles of interest to our tobacco control network, but we realize that there are many relevant articles that are not listed. Archived issues of Current Abstracts are also available.
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OTRU
Cessation—Gender
OTRU researchers used the Smokers’ Panel–a cohort of 5000 current and recent smokers who have had contact with the smoking cessation system in Ontario–to show that women are more likely to use services and products than men.
Jayakumar N, Chaiton M, Zhang B, Selby P, Schwartz R. Sex Differences in Use of Smoking Cessation Services and Resources: A Real-World Study. Tobacco Use Insights. 2020;13. doi:10.1177/1179173×20901500.
Cessation—Cancer
Investigators from Cancer Care Ontario, with assistance from OTRU researchers, demonstrate a number of myths preventing appropriate smoking cessation in cancer clinics during care.
Giuliani M, Brual J, Cameron E, et al. Smoking Cessation in Cancer Care: Myths, Presumptions and Implications for Practice. Clinical Oncology. 2020. doi:10.1016/j.clon.2020.01.008.
Hot Topics
E-Cigarettes—Health Effects
Osei and colleagues find, using data from the large US BRFSS survey, that e-cigarette use is association with COPD.
Osei AD, Mirbolouk M, Orimoloye OA, et al. Association Between E-Cigarette Use and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease by Smoking Status: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System 2016 and 2017. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2020;58(3):336-342. doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2019.10.014.
The Journal of the American Heart Association retracted an influential but controversial study that linked MI with e-cigarette use. The authors of the study defend the analytical decisions made.
Editors. Retraction to: Electronic Cigarette Use and Myocardial Infarction Among Adults in the US Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health. Journal of the American Heart Association. 2020;9(4). doi:10.1161/jaha.119.014519
Industry—Taxation
Researchers from Bath University show that the introduction of plain packaging in the UK was associated with a rise in prices not a decrease as the tobacco industry has claimed.
Hiscock R, Augustin NH, Branston JR, Gilmore AB. Standardised packaging, minimum excise tax, and RYO focussed tax rise implications for UK tobacco pricing. Plos One. 2020;15(2). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0228069.
Reviews
Cessation—Cannabis Co-Use
Walsh H, Mcneill A, Purssell E, Duaso M. A systematic review and Bayesian meta‐analysis of interventions which target or assess co‐use of tobacco and cannabis in single or multi‐substance interventions. Addiction. 2020. doi:10.1111/add.14993
Cessation—Mental Illness
Kozak K, George TP. Pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation in schizophrenia: a systematic review. Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy. March 2020:1-10. doi:10.1080/14656566.2020.1721466
Cessation—Pharmacology
Black N, Eisma MC, Viechtbauer W, et al. Variability and effectiveness of comparator group interventions in smoking cessation trials: a systematic review and meta‐analysis. Addiction. November 2020. doi:10.1111/add.14969
Recent Work by Canadian Researchers
Cessation—Alcohol Co-Use
Minian N, Ivanova A, Voci S, et al. Computerized Clinical Decision Support System for Prompting Brief Alcohol Interventions with Treatment Seeking Smokers: A Sex-Based Secondary Analysis of a Cluster Randomized Trial. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020;17(3):1024. doi:10.3390/ijerph17031024.
Cessation—Cancer
Weiss Y, Bristow B, Karol DL, et al. Exploring Tobacco Use and Smoking Cessation Best Practices From the Perspectives of Individuals With Lung Cancer and Health Care Professionals. Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences. 2020. doi:10.1016/j.jmir.2019.11.139.
Cessation—E-Cigarettes
Diab N, Stanbrook MB, Khan MH, Anand A. Nicotine patches with e-cigarettes for smoking cessation. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. 2020. doi:10.1016/s2213-2600(20)30035-7.
Cessation—Pharmaceutical
Zawertailo L, Ivanova A, Ng G, Foll BL, Selby P. Safety and Efficacy of Varenicline for Smoking Cessation in Alcohol-Dependent Smokers in Concurrent Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorder. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology. 2020:1. doi:10.1097/jcp.0000000000001172.
E-Cigarettes—Opinion
Cummings KM, Hammond D. E-cigarettes: striking the right balance. The Lancet Public Health. 2020. doi:10.1016/s2468-2667(20)30004-9
Industry—NGO
Kongats K, Mcgetrick JA, Raine KD, Nykiforuk CI. Using the intervention ladder to examine policy influencer and general public support for potential tobacco control policies in Alberta and Quebec. Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada. 2020;40(2):47-57. doi:10.24095/hpcdp.40.2.03.
Industry—Retail
Ghenadenik AE, Gauvin L, Frohlich KL. Smoking in young adults: A study of 4-year smoking behaviour patterns and residential presence of features facilitating smoking using data from the Interdisciplinary Study of Inequalities in Smoking cohort. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 2020. doi:10.1093/ntr/ntaa035.