Smoking and Tobacco News

Young adults who quit smoking within 1 year after an MI reduced their risk for all-cause and CV mortality by more than 50%, researchers found.

Black adults with screen-detected cancers had a lower calculated 6-year lung cancer risk compared with white adults, despite a significantly higher mean lung cancer risk, according to new research.

In a new position paper, the European Association of Preventive Cardiology recommended that due to known CV harms from e-cigarettes, they should not be used for smoking cessation except as a last resort.

Higher Blymphocyte stimulator and low interleukin-10 levels among cigarette smokers, particularly women who are positive for antinuclear antibodies, are associated with an increased risk for systemic lupus erythematosus, researchers noted.

Smoking history and duration impact current health measures among former smokers aged 65 years and older, according to new data published in the National Health Statistics Report.

The Healio editors have compiled a list of the most-read pulmonology news published in July.

Smoking modestly increased the risk for severe disease in hospitalized patients with COVID-19, particularly among younger patients without diabetes, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis.

The American Thoracic Society issued a new clinical practice guideline that outlines recommendations for initiating pharmacologic treatment for smoking cessation in tobacco-dependent adults.

Baseline smoking is strongly associated with worse MRI sacroiliac joint inflammation among blue-collar or “low education” patients with axial spondyloarthritis, according to data published in Arthritis & Rheumatology.

Approximately one-third of adults aged 18 to 25 years are at risk for severe COVID-19, according to a study published in the Journals of Adolescent Health.