June 2021

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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Tobacco—COVID

Melamed OC, Zawertailo L, Schwartz R, Buckley L, Selby P. Commentary – Protecting vulnerable groups from tobacco-related harm during and following the COVID-19 pandemic. Heal Promot Chronic Dis Prev Canada. 2021 Jun;41(10). FREE

Hot Topics

Industry—International

Fang and colleagues discuss the increasing role of the Chinese Tobacco Monopoly on global cigarette sales.

Fang J, Lee K, Sejpal N. The China National Tobacco Corporation: From domestic to global dragon? Glob Public Health. 2017 Mar 4;12(3):315–34. FREE

Industry—Flavours

Doris Gammon and others examine the impact of successfully implemented comprehensive flavoured tobacco product sales restrictions (including e-cigarettes).

Gammon DG, Rogers T, Gaber J, Nonnemaker JM, Feld AL, Henriksen L, et al. Implementation of a comprehensive flavoured tobacco product sales restriction and retail tobacco sales. Tob Control. 2021 Jun 4;tobaccocontrol-2021-056494. [Epub before print]

Reviews

Cessation—Behavioural

Bricca A, Swithenbank Z, Scott N, Treweek S, Johnston M, Black N, et al. Predictors of recruitment and retention in randomised controlled trials of behavioural smoking cessation interventions: a systematic review and meta‐regression analysis. Addiction. 2021 Jun 22;add.15614. [Epub before print]

Cessation—Health Care Settings

Manolios E, Sibeoni J, Teixeira M, Révah-Levy A, Verneuil L, Jovic L. When primary care providers and smokers meet: a systematic review and metasynthesis. Prim Care Respir Med. 2021 Dec 1;31(1):31. FREE

Protection—Health

Adatia A, Wahab M, Shahid I, Moinuddin A, Killian KJ, Satia I. Effects of cigarette smoke exposure on pulmonary physiology, muscle strength and exercise capacity in a retrospective cohort with 30,000 subjects. PLoS One. 2021 Jun 24;16(6):e0250957. FREE

Canadian

Cessation—Cannabis

Lucas P, Walsh Z, Hendricks PS, Boyd S, Milloy M-J. Self-reported reductions in tobacco and nicotine use following medical cannabis initiation: Results from a cross-sectional survey of authorized medical cannabis patients in Canada. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2021 Nov;130:108481. [Epub before print]

Driezen P, Gravely S, Wadsworth E, Smith DM, Loewen R, Hammond D, et al. Increasing cannabis use is associated with poorer cigarette smoking cessation outcomes: Findings from the ITC Four Country Smoking and Vaping Surveys, 2016-2018. Nicotine Tob Res. 2021 Jun 10.

Cessation—Health Care Settings

Veldhuizen S, Zawertailo L, Selby P. Variability in outcomes and quality-of-care indicators across clinics participating in a large smoking-cessation program. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2021 Nov 1;130:108409.

Baliunas D, Selby P, de Oliveira C, Kurdyak P, Rosella L, Zawertailo L, et al. Primary care-based smoking cessation treatment and subsequent healthcare service utilisation: a matched cohort study of smokers using linked administrative healthcare data. Tob Control. 2021 Jun 3;tobaccocontrol-2021-056522. Epub before print]

Protection—Household

Wu DC, Shannon G, Reynales-Shigematsu LM, Saenz de Miera B, Llorente B, Jha P. Implications of household tobacco and alcohol use on child health and women’s welfare in six low and middle-income countries: An analysis from a gender perspective. Soc Sci Med. 2021 Jul;281:114102.

Prevention—E-Cigarettes

Hammond D, Reid JL, Burkhalter R, O’Connor RJ, Goniewicz ML, Wackowski OA, et al. Trends in e-cigarette brands, devices and the nicotine profile of products used by youth in England, Canada and the USA: 2017–2019. Tob Control. 2021 Jun 7;tobaccocontrol-2020-056371. Epub before print]

Tobacco—COVID

Gravely S, Craig L V, Cummings KM, Ouimet J, Loewen R, Martin N, et al. Smokers’ cognitive and behavioural reactions during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: Findings from the 2020 ITC Four Country Smoking and Vaping Survey. PLoS One. 2021 Jun 4;16(6):e0252427. FREE

Tobacco—Genetics

El‐Boraie A, Tyndale RF. The role of pharmacogenetics in smoking. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2021 Jun 24;cpt.2345. [Epub before print]