March 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
Tobacco Industry—Flavours
Chaiton M, Schwartz R, Shuldiner J, Tremblay G, Nugent R. Evaluating a real world ban on menthol cigarettes: an interrupted time series analysis of sales. Nicotine & Tobacco Research 2019 Mar 19.
Hot Topics
Researchers from Stanford found that nicotine alone was sufficient to create widespread adverse effect on human embryonic development at the level of individual cells. The Canadian court of appeals decision to award $16 billion to Quebec smokers made international news.
Guo H, Tian L, Zhang JZ, Kitani T, Paik DT, Lee WH, et al. Single-cell RNA sequencing of human embryonic stem cell differentiation delineates adverse effects of nicotine on embryonic development. Stem Cell Reports 2019 Feb 28.
Dyer O. Canada: tobacco companies must pay C$16bn to Quebec smokers, appeal court rules. BMJ 2019 Mar 6;364:l1044.
Reviews
Cessation—mHealth
Struik LL, Bottorff JL, Baskerville NB, Oliffe J, Crichton S. Comparison of developers’ and end-users’ perspectives about smoking cessation support through the Crush the Crave app. JMIR mHealth and uHealth 2019 Mar 7;7(3):e10750.
Cessation—Pharmacology
Hsieh M-T, Tseng P-T, Wu Y-C, Tu Y-K, Wu H-C, Hsu C-W, et al. Effects of different pharmacologic smoking cessation treatments on body weight changes and success rates in patients with nicotine dependence: A network meta-analysis. Obesity Reviews 2019 Feb 27.
Cessation—Pregnant Women
Harris BM, Harris ML, Rae K, Chojenta C. Barriers and facilitators to smoking cessation within pregnant Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander women: An integrative review. Midwifery 2019 Jun 7;73:49-61.
Cessation—Training
Semwal M, Whiting P, Bajpai R, Bajpai S, Kyaw BM, Tudor Car L. Digital education for health professions on smoking cessation management: systematic review by the digital health education collaboration. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2019 Mar 4;21(3):e13000.
Initiation—Environment
Ghenadenik AE, Gauvin L, Frohlich KL. Residential environments and smoking behaviour patterns among young adults: A prospective study using data from the Interdisciplinary Study of Inequalities in Smoking cohort. Preventive Medicine 2019 Jun 4;123:48-54.