July 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
Tobacco Industry—Retail
Maritt Kirst and Michael Chaiton examine the relationship of tobacco outlet density, other neighbourhood stressors and smoking prevalence in Toronto and find extremely highly levels of density across the city.
Kirst M, Chaiton M, O’Campo P. Tobacco outlet density, neighbourhood stressors and smoking prevalence in Toronto, Canada. Health & Place 2019 Jul 23;58:102171.
Hot Topics
Cessation—Thirdhand Smoke
Georg Matt leads a study examining the effect of nicotine residue on ability to quit smoking and finds that higher levels of thirdhand smoke are associated with lower chances of success.
Matt GE, Mahabee-Gittens EM, Zakarian JM, Quintana PJE, Hoh E, Myers M. Nicotine in thirdhand smoke residue predicts relapse from smoking cessation: A pilot study. Addictive Behaviors 2019 Nov 1;98:106041.
Tobacco Control—WHO
The WHO updates their report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic and finds that 65% of the world’s population is covered by at least one comprehensive tobacco control measure up from 15% in 2007.
WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2019. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2019. FREE
Tobacco Industry—E-Cigarettes
The American Journal of Public Health released an issue focused on e-cigarettes with multiple articles and commentaries. This commentary from Fairchild and colleagues examines the types of and use of evidence in the debate.
Fairchild AL, Bayer R, Lee JS. The e-cigarette debate: What counts as evidence? American Journal of Public Health 2019 Jul 5;109(7):1000-6.
Reviews
Cessation—Hospital
Smith CE, Hill SE, Amos A. Impact of specialist and primary care stop smoking support on socioeconomic inequalities in cessation in the UK: a systematic review and national equity analysis. Addiction 2019 Jul 29;add.14760.
Cessation—Incentives
Notley C, Gentry S, Livingstone‐Banks J, Bauld L, Perera R, Hartmann‐Boyce J. Incentives for smoking cessation. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2019;7. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004307.pub6.
Recent Work by Canadian Researchers
Cessation—Nicotine
Trigo JM, Le Foll B. Nicotine self-administration as paradigm for medication discovery for smoking cessation: Recent findings in medications targeting the cholinergic system. Methods in Molecular Biology 2019;2011:165-93.
Protection—Prisons
Johnson C, Chaput J-P, Diasparra M, Richard C, Dubois L. How did the tobacco ban increase inmates’ body weight during incarceration in Canadian federal penitentiaries? A cohort study. BMJ Open 2019 Jul 16;9(7):e024552.
Smoking—Health Effects
Ng R, Sutradhar R, Yao Z, Wodchis WP, Rosella LC. Smoking, drinking, diet and physical activity—modifiable lifestyle risk factors and their associations with age to first chronic disease. International Journal of Epidemiology 2019 Apr 26.
Smoking—Mental Health
Kozak K, Lowe DJE, George TP. Effects of tobacco smoking status on verbal learning and memory in patients with schizophrenia and non‐psychiatric controls. The American Journal on Addictions 2019 Jul 10;ajad.12903.
Smoking—Obesity
McLean C, Jun S, Kozyrskyj A. Impact of maternal smoking on the infant gut microbiota and its association with child overweight: a scoping review. World Journal of Pediatrics 2019 Jul 9.
Tobacco Industry—Pricing
Driezen P, Nargis N, Thompson ME, Cummings KM, Fong GT, Chaloupka FJ, et al. State-level affordability of factory-made cigarettes among current US smokers: Findings from the ITC US Survey, 2003–2015. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2019 Jul 9;16(13):2439.