Smoking and Tobacco News

Vaping increased the risk for asthma among adolescents in Texas and across the United States who had never smoked conventional tobacco products, according to a study published in Preventive Medicine.

CDC data show that 16.2% of pregnant women aged 18 to 44 years reported using marijuana nearly every day.

Twenty-two U.S. retailers have received a civil money penalty complaint from the FDA for selling unauthorized Elf Bar/EB Design e-cigarettes, which is a “popular youth-appealing brand,” according to a press release from the agency.

Among various smoking cessation therapies, the highest likelihood for quitting was found with use of e-cigarettes, varenicline or cytisine, according to results published in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

From 2010 to 2021 — a period during which cannabis legalization and commercialization took place in Canada — ED visits for traffic injury involving cannabis have occurred more often, according to results published in JAMA Network Open.

Many U.S. adults appeared to believe that e-cigarettes contain a larger amount of dangerous chemicals than cigarettes, according to survey results published in Addiction.

Pregnant women were more likely to abstain from smoking in late pregnancy with use of e-cigarettes compared with nicotine replacement, especially if e-cigarette use started before pregnancy, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Hospitalized smokers who received varenicline plus nicotine replacement therapy lozenges had an increased likelihood for abstinence, according to a presentation at the European Respiratory Society International Congress.

Current smoking status was related to shortened leucocyte telomere length, signaling faster aging among cigarette smokers, according to a presentation at the European Respiratory Society International Congress.

Users of both tobacco and cannabis were more likely than nonusers to report anxiety and depression, a recent study in PloS One showed.