March 2021

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

Industry—Flavours

OTRU researchers examined the long-term impact of the menthol ban in Canada and found that daily menthol smokers prior to the ban were significantly more likely to quit for more than 6 months.

Chaiton M, Schwartz R, Cohen JE, Soule E, Zhang B, Eissenberg T. Prior daily menthol smokers more likely to quit two years after a menthol ban than non-menthol smokers: a population cohort study. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 2021. doi:10.1093/ntr/ntab042

Hot Topics

Cessation—E-Cigarettes

McDermott and other UK scientists found that daily e-cigarette users were over 3 times more likely to quit smoking than non-e-cigarette users. However, non-daily e-cigarette users were less likely to quit smoking.

McDermott MS, East KA, Brose LS, Mcneill A, Partos TR. The effectiveness of using e‐cigarettes for quitting smoking compared to other cessation methods among adults in the United Kingdom. Addiction. 2021. doi:10.1111/add.15474

Cessation—Mental Health

An update to a previous review found that smoking cessation was associated with substantial improvements in mental health, suggesting that cessation is an important intervention to improve mental health and mood among smokers.

Taylor GMJ, Lindson N, Farley A, Leinberger-Jabari A, Sawyer K, te Water Naudé R, Theodoulou A, King N, Burke C, Aveyard P. Smoking cessation for improving mental health. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2021;3. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD013522.pub2

Reviews

Cessation—Behavioural Interventions

Syan SK, Gonzalez-Roz A, Amlung M, Sweet LH, Mackillop J. Delayed Reward Discounting as a Prognostic Factor for Smoking Cessation Treatment Outcome: A Systematic Review. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 2021. doi:10.1093/ntr/ntab052

Cessation—Pharmacological Interventions

Mersha AG, Eftekhari P, Bovill M, Tollosa DN, Gould GS. Evaluating level of adherence to nicotine replacement therapy and its impact on smoking cessation: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Archives of Public Health. 2021;79(1). doi:10.1186/s13690-021-00550-2

E-Cigarettes—Health Effects

Erku DA, Bauld L, Dawkins L, Gartner CE, Steadman KJ, Noar SM, Shrestha S, Morphett K. Does the content and source credibility of health and risk messages related to nicotine vaping products have an impact on harm perception and behavioural intentions? A systematic review. Addiction. 2021. doi:10.1111/add.15473

Sharma A, McCausland K, Jancey J. Adolescent’s Health Perceptions of E-Cigarettes: A Systematic Review. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Published online March 2021. doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2020.12.013

Xian S, Chen Y. E‐cigarette users are associated with asthma disease: A meta‐analysis. The Clinical Respiratory Journal. Published online March 15, 2021:crj.13346. doi:10.1111/crj.13346

Recent Work by Canadian Researchers

Cessation—Alcohol

Minian N, Noormohamed A, Lingam M, Zawertailo L, Foll BL, Rehm J, Giesbrecht N, Samokhvalov AV, Baliunas D, Selby P. Integrating a brief alcohol intervention with tobacco addiction treatment in primary care: qualitative study of health care practitioner perceptions. Addiction Science & Clinical Practice. 2021;16(1). doi:10.1186/s13722-021-00225-x

Cessation—Cancer Settings

Conlon M, Santi S, Meigs M, Davidson S, Saunders D. Cigarette-Smoking Characteristics and Interest in Cessation in Patients with Head-and-Neck Cancer. Current Oncology. 2020;27(5):478-485. doi:10.3747/co.27.6019.

Iragorri N, Essue B, Timmings C, Keen D, Bryant H, Warren G. The Cost of Failed First-Line Cancer Treatment Related to Continued Smoking in Canada. Current Oncology. 2020;27(6):307-312. doi:10.3747/co.27.5951

Cessation—Exercise

Deck S, Nagpal TS, Morava A, Farhat J, Sanchez FC, Prapavessis H. Tobacco use among varsity athletes – why do they do it and how do we make it stop: a brief report. Journal of American College Health. 2021:1-5. doi:10.1080/07448481.2021.1897014

Cessation—Health Settings

Bugeja A, Shams I, Harris S, Clark EG, Burns KD, Sood MM, Akbari A. Cannabis and Cigarette Use Before and After Living Kidney Donation. Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease. 2021;8:205435812199724. doi:10.1177/2054358121997243

Cessation—Mental Health

Schnoll R, Wileyto EP, Bauer AM, Fox E, Leone F, Lerman C, Tyndale RF, George TP, Hawk L, Cinciripini P, Quinn M, Purnell J, Hatzell J, Hitsman B. Comparing the Rate of Nicotine Metabolism Among Smokers With Current or Past Major Depressive Disorder. The American Journal on Addictions. 2021. doi:10.1111/ajad.13155

Minian N, Ahad S, Ivanova A, Veldhuizen S, Zawertailo L, Ravindran A, Oliveira CD, Baliunas D, Mulder C, Bolbocean C, Selby P. The effectiveness of generic emails versus a remote knowledge broker to integrate mood management into a smoking cessation programme in team-based primary care: a cluster randomised trial. Implementation Science. 2021;16(1). doi:10.1186/s13012-021-01091-6

Cessation—Pharmacological Interventions

Chenoweth MJ, Lerman C, Knight J, Tyndale RF. A genome-wide association study of nausea incidence in varenicline-treated cigarette smokers. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 2021. doi:10.1093/ntr/ntab044

Industry—Marketing

Dewhirst T. Natural American Spirit cigarettes are marketed as ‘made different’: the role of brand positioning and differentiation. Tobacco Control. 2021. doi:10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2020-056442

Initiation—Mental Health

Mendo CW, Maurel M, Doré I, O’Loughlin J, Sylvestre M-P. Depressive Symptoms and Cigarette Smoking in Adolescents and Young Adults: Mediating Role of Friends Smoking. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 2021. doi:10.1093/ntr/ntab046

Protection—Initiation

Chadi N, Ahun MN, Laporte C, Boivin M, Tremblay RE, Côté SM, Orri M. Pre- and postnatal maternal smoking and offspring smoking trajectories: Evidence from a 20-year birth cohort. Preventive Medicine. 2021:106499. doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2021.106499

Protection—Suicide

Orri M, Chadi N, Ahun MN, Seguin JR, Tremblay RE, Boivin M, Turecki G, Geoffroy M-C, Côté SM. Suicidal ideation and attempt in adolescents exposed to maternal smoking across pregnancy and childhood: A 20-year prospective cohort study. Journal of Affective Disorders. 2021;286:10-18. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2021.02.047