April 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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Hot Topics
Industry—Tobacco Products
Investigators on the PATH study—a large population-representative cohort of the US that was designed for examining changes in tobacco products—presented a supplement of new data available at Tobacco Control.
Hyland A, Kasza KA, Borek N, et al. Overview of tobacco use transitions for population health. Tobacco Control. 2020;29(Suppl 3):s134-s138. doi:10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2019-055367. FREE
Industry—COVID-19
Hefler M, Gartner CE. The tobacco industry in the time of COVID-19: time to shut it down? Tobacco Control. June 2020. doi:10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2020-055807.
Reviews
Cessation—HIV
Nansseu JR, Tounouga DN, Noubiap JJ, Bigna JJ. Changes in smoking patterns after HIV diagnosis or antiretroviral treatment initiation: a global systematic review and meta-analysis. Infectious Diseases of Poverty. 2020;9(1). doi:10.1186/s40249-020-00644-z. FREE.
Cessation—Pharmacological
Howes S, Hartmann-Boyce J, Livingstone-Banks J, Hong B, Lindson N. Antidepressants for smoking cessation. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2020;4. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD000031.pub5.
E-Cigarettes—Health Effects
Garcia PD, Gornbein JA, Middlekauff HR. Cardiovascular autonomic effects of electronic cigarette use: a systematic review. Clinical Autonomic Research. March 2020. doi:10.1007/s10286-020-00683-4 [Epub ahead of print].
Recent Work by Canadian Researchers
Alternative Tobacco Products—Prevalence
Dugas EN, Sylvestre MP, Wellman RJ, O’Loughlin J. Does use of other tobacco products change when cigarette smoking status changes: A descriptive study of young adults. Addictive Behaviors. 2020;107. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2020.106404 [Epub ahead of print].
Cessation—Environment
Glenn NM, Frohlich KL, Vallée J. Socio-spatial inequalities in smoking among young adults: What a ‘go-along’ study says about local smoking practices. Social Science & Medicine. 2020;253. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112920 [Epub ahead of print].
Cessation—Mental Health
Dahal R, Adhikari K, Patten SB. Smoking cessation and improvement in mental health outcomes: Do people who quit smoking by switching to electronic cigarettes experience improvement in mental health? Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. April 2020:070674372091777. [Epub ahead of print].doi:10.1177/0706743720917775.
Tobacco Control—Review
Wei X, Marks G. Tobacco control. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 2020;24(3):263. doi:10.5588/ijtld.20.0013.