March 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
E-Cigarettes—Initiation
Alexia Medeiros leads a study examining perceived levels of addiction among youth and young adults in Canada and finds that more than half of youth and young adult regular e-cigarette users felt they had some level of addiction.
Camara-Medeiros A, Diemert L, O’Connor S, Schwartz R, Eissenberg T, Cohen JE. Perceived addiction to vaping among youth and young adult regular vapers. Tobacco Control. March 2020. doi:10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2019-055352.
Cessation—Depression
In collaboration with US researchers, OTRU finds that over time more people report having quit smoking and smoking prevalence is decreasing overall, yet disparities by depression status remain significant.
Weinberger AH, Chaiton MO, Zhu J, Wall MM, Hasin DS, Goodwin RD. Trends in the prevalence of current, daily, and nondaily cigarette smoking and quit ratios by depression status in the U.S.: 2005–2017. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2020. doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2019.12.023.
Hot Topics
Smoking—COVID-19
Coronavirus is dominating the news and smoking is being highlighted as an important risk factor for poor outcomes. Lui and colleagues were one of the first to demonstrate the link and Brake and others provide a potential mechanism of effect.
Liu W, Tao Z-W, Lei W, Ming-Li Y, Kui L, Ling Z, Shuang W, Yan D, Jing L, Liu H-G, Ming Y, Yi H. Analysis of factors associated with disease outcomes in hospitalized patients with 2019 novel coronavirus disease. Chinese Medical Journal. 2020:1. doi:10.1097/cm9.0000000000000775.
Brake SJ, Barnsley K, Lu W, Mcalinden KD, Eapen MS, Sohal SS. Smoking upregulates angiotensin-converting enzyme-2 Receptor: A potential adhesion site for novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19). Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2020;9(3):841. doi:10.3390/jcm9030841.
E-Cigarettes—Health Effects
Pisinger, Godtfredsen and Bender find that the results of studies examining the risk of e-cigarettes are strongly associated with the authors having a conflict of interest. Industry funded studies are much more likely to find no risk of e-cigarettes.
Pisinger C, Godtfredsen N, Bender AM. A conflict of interest is strongly associated with tobacco industry–favourable results, indicating no harm of e-cigarettes. Preventive Medicine. 2019;119:124-131. doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2018.12.011.
Reviews
Cessation—Behavioural
Black N, Johnston M, Michie S, Hartmann-Boyce J, West R, Viechtbauer W, Eisma MC, Scott C, Bruin MD. Behaviour change techniques associated with smoking cessation in intervention and comparator groups of randomised controlled trials: A systematic review and meta-regression. Addiction. 2020. doi:10.1111/add.15056.
Cessation—Pharmacological
Claire R, Chamberlain C, Davey M-A, Cooper SE, Berlin I, Leonardi-Bee J, Coleman T. Pharmacological interventions for promoting smoking cessation during pregnancy. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. April 2020. doi:10.1002/14651858.cd010078.pub3.
Initiation—E-Cigarettes
Khouja JN, Suddell SF, Peters SE, Taylor AE, Munafò MR. Is e-cigarette use in non-smoking young adults associated with later smoking? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Tobacco Control. October 2020. doi:10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2019-055433.
Smoking—COVID-19
Vardavas C, Nikitara K. COVID-19 and smoking: A systematic review of the evidence. Tobacco Induced Diseases. 2020;18(March). doi:10.18332/tid/119324.
Recent Work by Canadian Researchers
Cessation—Healthcare Settings
Garies S, Cummings M, Quan H, Mcbrien K, Drummond N, Manca D, Williamson T. Methods to improve the quality of smoking records in a primary care EMR database: exploring multiple imputation and pattern-matching algorithms. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 2020;20(1). doi:10.1186/s12911-020-1068-5.
Cessation—Health Effects
Jha P. The hazards of smoking and the benefits of cessation: a critical summation of the epidemiological evidence in high-income countries. eLife. 2020;9. doi:10.7554/elife.49979.
Cessation—Pharmacological
Cunningham JA, Kushnir V, Selby P, Zawertailo L, Tyndale RF, Leatherdale ST, Schell C. Five-year follow-up of a randomized clinical trial testing mailed nicotine patches to promote tobacco cessation. JAMA Internal Medicine. September 2020. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.0001.
Cessation—Risk Perception
Elton-Marshall T, Driezen P, Fong GT, Cummings KM, Persoskie A, Wackowski O, Choi K, Kaufman A, Strong D, Gravely S, Taylor K, Kwan J, Bansal-Travers M, Travers M, Hyland A. Adult perceptions of the relative harm of tobacco products and subsequent tobacco product use: Longitudinal findings from waves 1 and 2 of the population assessment of tobacco and health (PATH) study. Addictive Behaviors. 2020;106:106337. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2020.106337.
Industry—Manufacturing
Clark M, Magati P, Drope J, Labonte R, Lencucha R. Understanding alternatives to tobacco production in Kenya: A qualitative analysis at the sub-national level. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020;17(6):2033. doi:10.3390/ijerph17062033.
Industry—Marketing
Isip U, Calvert J. Analyzing big tobacco’s global youth marketing strategies and factors influencing smoking initiation by Nigeria youths using the theory of triadic influence. BMC Public Health. 2020;20(1):377. doi:10.1186/s12889-020-8451-0.
Protection—Health Effects
Kastury F, Ritch S, Rasmussen PE, Juhasz AL. Influence of household smoking habits on inhalation bioaccessibility of trace elements and light rare earth elements in Canadian house dust. Environmental Pollution. 2020;262:114132. doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114132.
Protection—Sleep
Zandy M, Chang V, Rao DP, Do MT. Tobacco smoke exposure and sleep: estimating the association of urinary cotinine with sleep quality. Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada. 2020;40(3):70-80. doi:10.24095/hpcdp.40.3.02.