April 2019
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 Researchers
Chaiton and Callard examine data from Canadian Community Health Survey to look at disparities in smoking in the context of work toward a tobacco endgame
Prevalence—Disparities
Chaiton M, Callard C. Mind the gap: Disparities in cigarette smoking in Canada. Tobacco Use Insights 2019;12:1179173X1983905. FREE
Hot Topics
E-Cigarettes—Health Effects
Scientists from North Carolina report that e-cigarette use resulted in genetic changes in airways similar to those caused by cigarette smoke.
Martin EM, Clapp PW, Rebuli ME, Pawlak EA, Glista-Baker E, Benowitz NL, Fry RC, Jaspers I. E-cigarette use results in suppression of immune and inflammatory-response genes in nasal epithelial cells similar to cigarette smoke. American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology 2016;311(1). doi:10.1152/ajplung.00170.2016. FREE
E-Cigarettes—Weight Control
Jackson and colleagues in England report that few smokers think that vaping that prevent weight gain after smoking cessation but it is not clear that promotion of such a link would be beneficial.
Jackson SE, Brown J, Aveyard P, Dobbie F, Uny I, West R, Bauld L. Vaping for weight control: A cross-sectional population study in England. Addictive Behaviors 2019;95:211-219. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2019.04.007. FREE
Smoking—Mortality
A major meta-analysis of cohort studies in Asia found that smoking-attributable mortality continued to increase among Asian men in birth cohorts over time.
Jeong Yang J, Yu D, Wen W, Shu X-O, Saito E, Rahman S, et al. Tobacco smoking and mortality in Asia A pooled meta-analysis. JAMA Network Open 2019;2:191474. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.1474. FREE
Reviews
E-Cigarettes—Health Professionals
Erku DA, Gartner CE, Morphett K, Steadman KJ. Beliefs and Self-reported Practices of Health Care Professionals Regarding Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review and Synthesis. Nicotine & Tobacco Research 2019. doi:10.1093/ntr/ntz046.
Prevalence—Disparities
van Wijk EC, Landais LL, Harting J. Understanding the multitude of barriers that prevent smokers in lower socioeconomic groups from accessing smoking cessation support: A literature review. Preventive Medicine 2019;123:143-151. doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2019.03.029.
Recent Work by Canadian Researchers
Cessation—Cancer
Giuliani ME, Liu G, Xu W, Dirlea M, Selby P, Papadakos J, et al. Implementation of a novel electronic patient-directed smoking cessation platform for cancer patients: Interrupted time series analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2019;21:e11735. FREE
Cessation—Healthcare Settings
Lee SM. Perioperative smoking cessation programs should be standard-of-care. Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien danesthésie 2019. doi:10.1007/s12630-019-01364-1.
Industry—Endgame
Steer KJD, Brown K, Doncaster H, Dueck K, Loh LC. From priority to endgame: the Region of Peel Living Tobacco-Free strategy. Canadian Journal of Public Health 2019. doi:10.17269/s41997-019-00203-6. [Epub ahead of print].
Prevalence—Disparities
Gagné T, Quesnel-Vallée A, Frohlich KL. Considering the age-graded nature of associations between socioeconomic characteristics and smoking during the transition towards adulthood. Preventive Medicine 2019;123:262-269. doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2019.03.038.
Smoking—Health Effects
Thekkepurakkal AS, Nicolau B, Burk RD, Franco EL, Schlecht NF. Genetic variants in CYP and GST genes, smoking and risk for head and neck cancers: a gene-environment interaction hospital-based case-control study among Canadian Caucasians. Carcinogenesis 2019. doi:10.1093/carcin/bgz051. [Epub ahead of print].