Smoking and Tobacco News

An artificial intelligence tool predicted a person’s lung cancer risk after analyzing a single low-dose CT scan, according to study results.

Smoking heated tobacco products during pregnancy was associated with allergy — specifically asthma, rhinitis and conjunctivitis, and atopic dermatitis — in offspring, according to a study published in Allergy.

From 2005 to 2019, the total number of cannabis-related ED visits in California rose from 366 to 12,167 among older adults, according to study results published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

Adults who are not ready to stop using tobacco had greater abstinence rates when treated with varenicline compared with placebo, according to a study published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Patients with e-cigarette- or vaping-associated lung injury, or EVALI, frequently showed long-term cognitive impairment, respiratory limitations and mood disorders, according to a study published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Individuals who smoked marijuana were more likely to have emphysema, airway changes and gynecomastia than tobacco-only smokers and nonsmokers, according to a study published in Radiology.

More than 3 million middle and high school students reported continuous tobacco use in 2022, according to findings published in MMWR.

Daily e-cigarette use among teens “seemed to accelerate” after 2017, according to a new study in JAMA Network Open.

CHICAGO — Volatile organic compounds that are found in combustible cigarette and e-cigarettes were linked with acute changes in vascular function, according to a study presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.

Reduced flow-mediated dilation was observed among both e-cigarette and traditional cigarette users, but circulating levels of certain inflammatory and thrombotic mediators differed between the two groups, researchers reported.