October 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—Endgame

Les Hagen (ASH Alberta) and Rob Schwartz (OTRU) discuss the tobacco endgame and progress (or lack of progress) toward meeting our targets.

Hagen L, Schwartz R. Is “less than 5 by 35” still achievable? Heal Promot Chronic Dis Prev Canada. 2021 Oct;41(10):288–91.

Hot Topics

Cessation—E-Cigarettes

Researchers from University of California San Diego examine the relationship of cigarette use among e-cigarette users and other tobacco products and find that e-cigarette users are less likely to quit smoking.

Pierce JP, Chen R, Kealey S, Leas EC, White MM, Stone MD, et al. Incidence of cigarette smoking relapse among individuals who switched to e-cigarettes or other tobacco products. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Oct 19;4(10):e2128810.

Reviews

Cessation—Medical Settings

Thanigaimani S, Drovandi A, Golledge J. A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials evaluating the efficacy of smoking cessation interventions in people with peripheral artery disease. J Vasc Surg. 2021 Sep.

Cessation—Pharmacotherapy

Thomas KH, Dalili MN, López‐López JA, Keeney E, Phillippo DM, Munafò MR, et al. Comparative clinical effectiveness and safety of tobacco cessation pharmacotherapies and electronic cigarettes: a systematic review and network meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials. Addiction. 2021 Oct 11.

Cessation—Weight Gain

Hartmann-Boyce J, Theodoulou A, Farley A, Hajek P, Lycett D, Jones LL, et al. Interventions for preventing weight gain after smoking cessation. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2021 Oct 6;2021(10).

Initiation—E-Cigarettes

Short M, Cole AG. Factors Associated with E-Cigarette Escalation among High School Students: A Review of the Literature. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Sep 25;18(19):10067.

Williams GC, Cole AG, de Groh M, Jiang Y, Leatherdale ST. Investigating individual-level correlates of e-cigarette initiation among a large sample of Canadian high school students. Heal Promot Chronic Dis Prev Canada. 2021 Oct;41(10):292–305.

Canadian

Cessation—COVID-19

Minian N, Veldhuizen S, Tanzini E, Duench S, DeRuiter WK, Barker M, et al. Changes in the reach of a smoking cessation program in Ontario, Canada, during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study. CMAJ Open. 2021 Oct 19;9(4):E957–65.

Cessation—Medical Settings

Tremblay A, Taghizadeh N, MacEachern P, Burrowes P, Graham AJ, Lam SC, et al. Two-year follow-up of a randomized controlled study of integrated smoking cessation in a lung cancer screening program. JTO Clin Res Reports. 2021 Feb 1;2(2):100097.

Cessation—Pregnancy

Small SP, Porr C. Indigenous women’s experiences of smoking and quitting smoking in pregnancy: A phenomenological study. Can J Nurs Res. 2021 Oct 20;084456212110443.

Cessation—Youth

Yan T, Goldman RD. Bupropion for smoking cessation in adolescents. Can Fam Physician. 2021 Oct;67(10):743–5.

Industry—Heated Tobacco

Miller CR, Sutanto E, Smith DM, Hitchman SC, Gravely S, Yong H-H, et al. Characterizing heated tobacco product use among adult cigarette smokers and nicotine vaping product users in the 2018 ITC Four Country Smoking & Vaping Survey. Nicotine Tob Res. 2021 Oct 20.

Industry—Taxation

Worrell M, Hagen L. Cigarette affordability in Canadian provinces: a 10-year review. Heal Promot Chronic Dis Prev Canada. 2021 Oct;41(10):315–8.

Pesko MF, Warman C. Re-exploring the early relationship between teenage cigarette and e-cigarette use using price and tax changes. Health Econ. 2021 Oct 20.

Initiation—Youth

Gagné T, O’Loughlin JL. Tobacco smoking prevention and control in Canada: where do we go from here? Heal Promot Chronic Dis Prev Canada. 2021 Oct;41(10):279–81.

Prevalence—Canada

Pelekanakis A, O’Loughlin JL, Gagné T, Callard C, Frohlich KL. Initiation or cessation: what keeps the prevalence of smoking higher in Quebec than in the rest of Canada? Heal Promot Chronic Dis Prev Canada. 2021 Oct;41(10):306–14.