May 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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Hot Topics
Protection—E-Cigarettes
Carwile and colleagues found that e-cigarette were use in 5% of US household were kids.
Carwile JL, Fleisch AF, Young K, Ahrens KA. Electronic cigarette use in US households with children. JAMA Pediatrics 2019 May 6.
Tobacco Industry—JUUL
Researchers from Stanford describe changes in the e-cigarette market and identify that the emergence of JUUL led to increases in other high nicotine e-cigarette markets. A paper from the Truth Institute examines correlates of JUUL use in the US.
Jackler RK, Ramamurthi D. Nicotine arms race: JUUL and the high-nicotine product market. Tobacco Control 2019 Feb 6;tobaccocontrol-2018-054796.
Vallone DM, Bennett M, Xiao H, Pitzer L, Hair EC. Prevalence and correlates of JUUL use among a national sample of youth and young adults. Tobacco Control 2018 Oct 29;tobaccocontrol-2018-054693.
Reviews
Cessation—Counselling
Matkin W, Ordóñez-Mena JM, Hartmann-Boyce J. Telephone counselling for smoking cessation. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2019 May 2;5:CD002850.
Cessation—Pregnancy
Walker RC, Graham A, Palmer SC, Jagroop A, Tipene-Leach DC. Understanding the experiences, perspectives and values of indigenous women around smoking cessation in pregnancy: systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies. International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 Dec 22;18(1):74.
Cessation—Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
Kang N, Kim RK, Kim HJ. Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on symptoms of nicotine dependence: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Addictive Behaviors 2019 Sep 6;96:133-9.
Tobacco Control Interventions
Bafunno D, Catino A, Lamorgese V, Pizzutilo P, Di Lauro A, Petrillo P, et al. Tobacco control in Europe: A review of campaign strategies for teenagers and adults. Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology 2019 Jun 2;138:139-47.
Tobacco Industry—Harm Reduction
Hendlin YH, Vora M, Elias J, Ling PM. Financial conflicts of interest and stance on tobacco harm reduction: A systematic review. American Journal of Public Health 2019 May 16;e1-8.
Recent Work by Canadian Researchers
Cessation—Cancer Settings
Tremblay A, Taghizadeh N, Huang J, Kasowski D, MacEachern P, Burrowes P, et al. A randomized controlled study of integrated smoking cessation in a lung cancer screening program. Journal of Thoracic Oncology 2019 May 8.
Giuliani M, Brual J, Eng L, Liu G, Papadakos T, Giannopoulos E, et al. Investigating the smoking cessation informational needs of cancer patients and informal caregivers. Journal of Cancer Education 2019 May 22
Cessation—Pharmacological
Schlagintweit HE, Perry RN, Darredeau C, Barrett SP. Non-pharmacological considerations in human research of nicotine and tobacco effects: A review. Nicotine Tobacco Research 2019 May 6.
E-Cigarettes—Flavour
Czoli CD, Goniewicz ML, Palumbo M, Leigh N, White CM, Hammond D. Identification of flavouring chemicals and potential toxicants in e-cigarette products in Ontario, Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health 2019 Apr 25.
Health Effects—Cancer
Poirier AE, Ruan Y, Grevers X, Walter SD, Villeneuve PJ, Friedenreich CM, et al. Estimates of the current and future burden of cancer attributable to active and passive tobacco smoking in Canada. Preventive Medicine 2019 May;122:9-19.
Heath Effects—Tuberculosis
Rea E, Leung T. A cluster of tuberculosis cases linked to smoking: An under-recognized challenge for tuberculosis elimination. Canadian Communicable Disease Report 2018 Mar 1;44(3–4):86-90.
Tobacco Industry—FCTC
Labonté R, Lencucha R, Goma F, Zulu R, Drope J. Consequences of policy incoherence: how Zambia’s post-FCTC investment policy stimulated tobacco production. Journal of Public Health Policy 2019 May 4.
Tobacco Industry—Indigenous Populations
Waa A, Robson B, Gifford H, Smylie J, Reading J, Henderson JA, et al. Foundation for a Smoke-Free World and healthy Indigenous futures: an oxymoron? Tobacco Control 2019 May 10;tobaccocontrol-2018-054792.
Tobacco Industry—Lawsuit
Collishaw N. Calling the tobacco industry to account in Quebec. BMJ 2019 Apr 29;365:l1900.