Smoking and Tobacco News

There is a statistically significant association between secondhand smoke and the risk for oral cancer, researchers wrote in Tobacco Control.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, requests for smoking-cessation services were down 27%, according to new data from the North American Quitline Consortium.

Adolescents who vape cannabis have greater risk for lung injury and respiratory symptoms compared with those who smoke or vape other substances, according to findings published in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

Pediatric primary care clinicians “frequently” screened parents to obtain their smoking behaviors but “rarely” provided smoking cessation counseling, researchers wrote in PLoS One.

The use of tobacco products is a potential risk factor for worse COVID-19 outcomes, and a new paper in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society highlights types of research to better understand this relationship.

Low FEV1/slow vital capacity in current and former smokers with normal spirometry may aid in the identification of individuals who are at increased risk for COPD, researchers reported in Chest.

The longer an individual smoked, the greater his or her odds were for COVID-19 hospitalization and death, an analysis of data from a single health system showed.

Current smoking appears to increase individual risk for developing symptomatic COVID-19, according to results published in Thorax.

Dependency-related emotions among people who both smoke and vape may differ from those among people who only smoke, according to study results published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

United States Preventive Services Task Force recommended that clinicians ask all adults about tobacco use and provide them with behavioral interventions and even FDA-approved pharmacotherapy to help them quit smoking.