June 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—Flavours
OTRU research found that 24% of people who smoked menthol daily before a ban on menthol in cigarettes had quit smoking 1 year after the ban. Daily menthol smokers were more likely to make quit attempts compared to non-menthol smokers in a longitudinal study of smokers.
Chaiton MO, Nicolau I, Schwartz R, Cohen JE, Soule E, Zhang B, et al. Ban on menthol-flavoured tobacco products predicts cigarette cessation at 1 year: a population cohort study. Tobacco Control 2019 May 30;tobaccocontrol-2018-054841.
Hot Topics
E-Cigarettes—Prevalence
A team led by David Hammond releases new data showing dramatic increases in use of e-cigarettes and cigarettes among youth in Canada—74% increase in vaping.
Hammond D, Reid JL, Rynard VL, Fong GT, Cummings KM, McNeill A, et al. Prevalence of vaping and smoking among adolescents in Canada, England, and the United States: repeat national cross-sectional surveys. BMJ 2019 Jun 20;l2219.
Tobacco Industry—FCTC
Steven Hoffman and colleagues use a novel data set to show a limited effect of the FCTC law on smoking consumption in low- and middle-income countries.
Hoffman SJ, Poirier MJP, Rogers Van Katwyk S, Baral P, Sritharan L. Impact of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control on global cigarette consumption: quasi-experimental evaluations using interrupted time series analysis and in-sample forecast event modelling. BMJ 2019 Jun 19;l2287.
Reviews
Cessation—Behavioural Support
Hartmann-Boyce J, Hong B, Livingstone-Banks J, Wheat H, Fanshawe TR. Additional behavioural support as an adjunct to pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2019 Jun 5;6:CD009670.
Cessation—Hypnotherapy
Barnes J, McRobbie H, Dong CY, Walker N, Hartmann-Boyce J. Hypnotherapy for smoking cessation. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2019 Jun 14 [cited 2019 Jun 25];6:CD001008.
Cessation—Lung Cancer
Zeng L, Yu X, Yu T, Xiao J, Huang Y. Interventions for smoking cessation in people diagnosed with lung cancer. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2019 Jun 7;6:CD011751.
Tobacco Industry—Cigars
Kong G, Creamer MR, Simon P, Cavallo DA, Ross JC, Hinds JT, et al. Systematic review of cigars, cigarillos, and little cigars among adolescents: Setting research agenda to inform tobacco control policy. Addictive Behaviors 2019 Sep [cited 2019 Jun 25];96:192-7.
Recent Work by Canadian Researchers
Cessation—Cancer
Evans WK, Truscott R, Cameron E, Rana S, Isaranuwatchai W, Haque M, et al. Implementing smoking cessation within cancer treatment centres and potential economic impacts. Translational Lung Cancer Research 2019 May;8(S1):S11-20.
Cigarettes—Costs
Isaranuwatchai W, de Oliveira C, Mittmann N, Evans WK (Bill), Peter A, Truscott R, et al. Impact of smoking on health system costs among cancer patients in a retrospective cohort study in Ontario, Canada. BMJ Open 2019 Jun 21;9(6):e026022.
Prevention—Indigenous
Sikorski C, Leatherdale S, Cooke M. Tobacco, alcohol and marijuana use among Indigenous youth attending off-reserve schools in Canada: cross-sectional results from the Canadian Student Tobacco, Alcohol and Drugs Survey. Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada 2019 Jun;39(6/7):207-15.
Prevention—Tobacco Control
Guindon GE, Paraje GR, Chaloupka FJ. Association of tobacco control policies with youth smoking onset in Chile. JAMA Pediatrics 2019 Jun 10.
Protection—Stigma
McCready G, Glenn NM, Frohlich KL. “Don’t smoke in public, you look like trash”: An exploratory study about women’s experiences of smoking-related stigmatisation and the connection to neighbourhood-level deprivation. Health & Place 2019 Jul 13;58:102142.
Tobacco Industry
Cohen JE, Lee K. State versus private ownership of tobacco companies. BMJ 2019 Jun 20;365:l4056.
Tobacco Industry—Cigarette Sales
Hoffman SJ, Mammone J, Rogers Van Katwyk S, Sritharan L, Tran M, Al-Khateeb S, et al. Cigarette consumption estimates for 71 countries from 1970 to 2015: systematic collection of comparable data to facilitate quasi-experimental evaluations of national and global tobacco control interventions. BMJ 2019 Jun 19;365:l2231.
Tobacco Industry—E-Cigarettes
Cole AG, Aleyan S, Leatherdale ST. Exploring the association between E-cigarette retailer proximity and density to schools and youth E-cigarette use. Preventive Medicine Reports 2019 Sep;15:100912.
Tobacco Industry—FCTC
Craig L, Fong GT, Chung-Hall J, Puska P, WHO FCTC Impact Assessment Expert Group. Impact of the WHO FCTC on tobacco control: perspectives from stakeholders in 12 countries. Tobacco Control 2019 Jun;28(Suppl 2):s129-35.