Smoking and Tobacco News

The FDA has proposed limiting the level of nicotine in cigarettes and other combusted tobacco products like cigars and pipe tobacco to make them “minimally or nonaddictive,” according to a press release from the agency.

Integrated care involving medication and intensive counseling showed effectiveness for smoking cessation among adults undergoing screening for lung cancer, the results of a randomized clinical trial showed.

Nicotine vaping cessation rates were elevated with use of a text message intervention or varenicline vs. no/minimal support or placebo, according to data published in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

Healio Pulmonology has compiled the top news on smoking and vaping posted in 2024.

In a cohort of English youths, those who persisted smoking tobacco from childhood to early adulthood showed significant cardiac damage by age 24 years and potentially irreversible cardiac injury, a researcher reported.

SAN DIEGO — Genetic mutations related to myelodysplastic syndrome occurred significantly more often among people who smoked than nonsmokers, according to study results presented at ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition.

A smaller proportion of individuals who used both e-cigarettes and cigarettes achieved nicotine abstinence vs. individuals who used only cigarettes or only e-cigarettes, according to results published in ERJ Open Research.

The FDA has cleared an investigational new drug application for the RespiRx Nicotine Inhaler (QN-01), an inhaled nicotine replacement therapy, according to a press release.

Among adult smokers who moved from smoking cigarettes to e-cigarettes exclusively, wheeze resolution went up, but this was not the case if they moved to dual use, according to results published in Nicotine and Tobacco Research.