December 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
Cigarettes—Cannabis Co-Use
New OTRU research shows that co-use of cannabis and tobacco was widespread prior to cannabis legalization with 3/10 cannabis users also using tobacco. Of those who mixed cannabis and tobacco together, 31% did not report being tobacco smokers.
Jayakumar N, Chaiton M, Goodwin R, Schwartz R, O’Connor S, Kaufman P. Co-use and mixing tobacco with cannabis among Ontario adults. Nicotine & Tobacco Research 2019. doi:10.1093/ntr/ntz238.
Hot Topics
E-Cigarettes—Health Effects
The evidence on the health burden of e-cigarettes continues to build with the results of a cohort study of the respiratory effects of e-cigarettes among adults by Bhatta and Glantz.
Bhatta DN, Glantz SA. Association of e-cigarette use with respiratory disease among adults: A longitudinal analysis. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2019. doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2019.07.028. FREE
Prevention—Age Restrictions
The US passed legislation raising the legal smoking age to 21 across the country, leading to calls for increased age restrictions elsewhere, along with better enforcement of the laws.
Dyer O. US set to raise smoking age to 21 and to fund gun violence research after 20 year freeze. BMJ 2019:l7055. doi:10.1136/bmj.l7055.
Recent Work by Canadian Researchers
Cessation—Behavioural Interventions
Coovadia S, Dalimonte L, Bristow B, Curle E, Gibson L, Prospero LD. Catalyst for change: measuring the effectiveness of training of all health care professionals to provide brief intervention for smoking cessation to cancer patients. Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences 2019. doi:10.1016/j.jmir.2019.10.002.
Cessation—Cancer
Abdelmutti N, Brual J, Papadakos J, Fathima S, Goldstein D et al. Implementation of a comprehensive smoking cessation program in cancer care. Current Oncology 2019;26(6). doi:10.3747/co.26.5201. FREE
Eng L, Alton D, Song Y, Su J, Zhang Q et al. Awareness of the harms of continued smoking among cancer survivors. Supportive Care in Cancer 2019. doi:10.1007/s00520-019-05175-4.
Cessation—Comorbidities
Voci S, Zawertailo L, Baliunas D, Masood Z, Selby P. Is cannabis use associated with tobacco cessation outcome? An observational cohort study in primary care. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2020;206:107756. doi:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2019.107756.
Cigarettes—Disparities
Parnia A, Siddiqi A. Socioeconomic disparities in smoking are partially explained by chronic financial stress: marginal structural model of older US adults. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2019. doi:10.1136/jech-2019-213357.
Industry—Contraband
Driezen P, Guindon GE, Hammond D, Thompson ME, Quah AC, Fong GT. Contraband cigarette purchasing from First Nation reserves in Ontario and Quebec: Findings from the 2002–2014 ITC Canada Survey. International Journal of Drug Policy 2020;75:102612. doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.102612.
Prevention—Comorbidities
Williams GC, Battista K, Leatherdale ST. An examination of how age of onset for alcohol, cannabis, and tobacco are associated with school outcomes in grade 12. Addictive Behaviors 2020;102:106215. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2019.106215.
Protection—Global
Sansone G, Fong GT, Yan M, Meng G, Craig L et al. Secondhand smoke exposure and support for smoke-free policies in cities and rural areas of China from 2009 to 2015: a population-based cohort study (the ITC China Survey). BMJ Open 2019;9(12). doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2019-031891. FREE
Protection—Health Effects
Mahlberg N, James ME, Bulten R, Rodriguez C, Kwan M, Cairney J. Investigating the association between exposure to second hand smoke in utero and developmental coordination disorder. Frontiers in Pediatrics 2019;7. doi:10.3389/fped.2019.00438. FREE
Protection—Home Smoking
Montreuil A, Wellman RJ, O’Loughlin JL. Single-parent status and smoke-free home rules among daily smokers. Canadian Journal of Public Health 2019. doi:10.17269/s41997-019-00274-5. FREE