Smoking and Tobacco News

The Healio Editors compiled the most-read news in pulmonology posted in March.

Consumption of a higher-quality diet was associated with lower odds of wheezing among adolescents with substantial environmental tobacco smoke exposure, according to data published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Ten-year follow-up data from the COPDGene study show that changes in lung function, respiratory symptom burden and functional capacity in current and former smokers appear to be slow.

In the United States, 47.1 million adults reported using commercial tobacco products in 2020, including 30.8 million adults who reported smoking cigarettes, according to data published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

More than 2.5 million middle and high school students in the United States reported current use of a tobacco product in 2021, according to results from the National Youth Tobacco Survey that were published Thursday in MMWR.

Nonobstructive chronic bronchitis was associated with increased mortality in current and former smokers, according to a review and meta-analysis published in Chest.

E-cigarette use was associated with greater odds for prediabetes among U.S. adults, according to findings published in the American Journal of Preventive Health.

Former smokers with COPD may be more susceptible to inflammatory responses to short-term exposure to moderate concentrations of diesel exhaust than former smokers without COPD or healthy never smokers, researchers reported.

Many e-cigarette and hookah smokers exhale aerosols through the nose, which may increase risk for lung inflammation and nose, sinus and throat cancers, according to findings published in Tobacco Use Insights.

Smoking during the periconceptional period was associated with delays in embryonic development, which cannot be offset later in pregnancy, according to findings published in Human Reproduction.