Smoking and Tobacco News

Religiously tailored text messages intended to decrease smoking during Ramadan were “feasible and acceptable” among Muslim men in Minnesota, results of a single-arm observational study showed.

In a survey of adolescents from 2011 to 2019, cigarette and smokeless tobacco use has decreased rapidly since 2012 as use of e-cigarettes increased.

E-cigarette use combined with use of traditional cigarettes may confer similar inflammatory and oxidative stress to exclusive use of traditional cigarettes, according to research published in Circulation.

Lower oral microbiome diversity and an abundance of specific taxa in the respiratory tract may be associated with greater risk for lung cancer in never smokers, researchers reported in Thorax.

Current tobacco control programs over the past two decades led to a decrease in overall cigarette use uptake in the United States and California, with reductions largely observed among non-Hispanic white adults, according to a new study.

Vitamin C supplementation, in conjunction with smoking cessation counseling, significantly increased airway function through 12 months of age among the offspring of pregnant smokers, researchers reported in the European Respiratory Journal.

There was a substantial decline in the prevalence of secondhand smoke exposure among nonsmokers from 1988 to 2012, but progress has since stalled, researchers reported.

Low-dose chest CT screening resulted in “notable detection” of lung nodules among never smokers, researchers reported in the European Respiratory Journal.

Results from a national, cross-sectional survey showed a decrease in e-cigarette use among teens and young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

In a systematic review and meta-analysis, researchers found that the overall pooled lung cancer screening adherence rate among adults was 55%, “much lower” than rates reported in large randomized clinical trials.