May 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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Hot Topics

Cessation—E-Cigarettes

Jamie Hartmann-Boyce and colleagues at Cochrane update their review of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation and conclude that there is moderate certainty evidence that e-cigarettes can improve rates of cessation above nicotine replacement products.

Hartmann-Boyce J, McRobbie H, Lindson N, Bullen C, Begh R, Theodoulou A, et al. Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2021 Apr 29;2021(4).

Prevalence—Cigarettes

The 2019 update of the global burden of tobacco was published in the Lancet raising the estimate of the number of smokers to 1.1 billion worldwide.

Reitsma MB, Kendrick PJ, Ababneh E, Abbafati C, Abbasi-Kangevari M, Abdoli A, et al. Spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns in prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Lancet. 2021 May ;0(0). FREE

Systematic Reviews

Cessation—Health Professionals

Butt K, Nakhla N. Creating Standardized Tools for the Pharmacist-Led Assessment and Pharmacologic Management of Adult Canadians Wishing to Quit Smoking: A Consensus-Based Approach. Pharmacy. 2021 Apr 14;9(2):80. FREE

Cessation—Pharmaceutical Interventions

Blanc J, Tosello B, Ekblad MO, Berlin I, Netter A. Nicotine Replacement Therapy during Pregnancy and Child Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Apr 11 ;18(8):4004. FREE

Cunningham JA, Leatherdale ST, Chaiton M, Tyndale R, Schell C, Godinho A. Offering nicotine patches to all households in a community with high smoking rates: Pilot test of a population-based approach to promote tobacco cessation. Int J Popul Data Sci. 2021 Feb 11 ;6(1).

Voci S, Veldhuizen S, Tien S, Barker M, Minian N, Selby P, et al. A comparison of quit outcomes for men and women in a smoking cessation program offering personalized nicotine replacement therapy and counselling in primary care clinics. Nicotine Tob Res. 2021 Apr 29 [EPUB before print]

E-Cigarettes—Co-Use

Durazo A, Hartman-Filson M, Elser H, Alizaga NM, Vijayaraghavan M. E-Cigarette Use among Current Smokers Experiencing Homelessness. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Apr 1 ;18(7):3691. FREE

E-Cigarettes—Energy Drinks

Fagan MJ, Di Sebastiano KM, Qian W, Leatherdale ST, Faulkner G. The Energy to Smoke: Examining the Longitudinal Association between Beverage Consumption and Smoking and Vaping Behaviours among Youth in the COMPASS Study. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Apr 7 ;18(8):3864. FREE

Protection—Policy

Falconer Hall T, Siddiqi K. Effect of smoke-free policies in military settings on tobacco smoke exposure and smoking behaviour: a systematic review. BMJ Mil Heal. 2021 May 14 ;bmjmilitary-2021-001795. [EPUB before print]

Protection—SES

Pelekanakis A, O’Loughlin JL, Maximova K, Montreuil A, Kalubi J, Dugas EN, et al. Associations of Quantity Smoked and Socioeconomic Status With Smoke-Free Homes and Cars Among Daily Smokers. Heal Educ Behav. 2021 May 24 [EPUB before print];109019812110104.