August 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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Hot Topics
Tobacco Industry—Influence
Ruth Malone discusses the controversy over Philip Morris International Influence at the UN, where the head of the UN office in Geneva has suggested increasing relations with the tobacco industry.
Malone RE. Tobacco industry shoving its snout under the UN tent flap. Tobacco Control 2019 Sep 23;28(5):479-80.
E-Cigarettes—Health Effects
Caporale and colleagues present results of a study that shows that exposure to even one session of e-cigarette use can lead to changes in blood vessels.
Caporale A, Langham MC, Guo W, Johncola A, Chatterjee S, Wehrli FW. Acute effects of electronic cigarette aerosol inhalation on vascular function detected at quantitative MRI. Radiology 2019 Aug 20;190562.
Reviews
Smoking Cessation—Behavioural Interventions
Lindson N, Thompson TP, Ferrey A, Lambert JD, Aveyard P. Motivational interviewing for smoking cessation. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2019 Jul 31.
Smoking Cessation—Pharmaceutical Interventions
Hollands GJ, Naughton F, Farley A, Lindson N, Aveyard P. Interventions to increase adherence to medications for tobacco dependence. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2019 Aug 16.
Recent Work by Canadian Researchers
Prevention—Comorbidity
Williams GC, Battista K, Leatherdale ST. An examination of how age of onset for alcohol, cannabis, and tobacco are associated with physical activity, screen time and BMI as students are preparing to graduate from high school. Preventive Medicine Reports 2019 Sep;15:100956.
Smoking Cessation—Substance Use
Minian N, Baliunas D, Noormohamed A, Zawertailo L, Giesbrecht N, Hendershot CS, et al. The effect of a clinical decision support system on prompting an intervention for risky alcohol use in a primary care smoking cessation program: a cluster randomized trial. Implementation Science 2019 Dec 23;14(1):85.
Tobacco Industry—Nicotine
Cummings KM, Fong GT. Predicting the future of smoking in a rapidly evolving nicotine marketplace. Addiction 2019 Aug 20;add.14785.