Smoking and Tobacco News

Most patients with electronic cigarette- or vaping-associated lung injuries, or EVALI, who used products with THC acquired the products from informal sources like family and friends or dealers, according to findings published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Healio Pulmonology has you covered. The Editors have compiled a list of popular articles posted on Healio Pulmonology in December.

Patients aged 18 to 44 years who currently smoke combustible cigarette or both e-cigarettes and combustible cigarettes had an increased risk for stroke compared with those who did not smoke, according to a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Parental marijuana use was associated with increased risk for substance use among adolescent and young adult children living in the same household, according to results from a cross-sectional study published in JAMA.

New data published in The New England Journal of Medicine and Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report suggest a decline in the number of new cases of e-cigarette- or vaping-associated lung injury, also referred to as EVALI, but health officials are now concerned about readmissions after hospital discharge.

HHS Secretary Alex Azar announced that companies that do not stop manufacturing, distributing and selling unauthorized flavored cartridge-based e-cigarettes — except for tobacco and menthol flavors — could face FDA enforcement action.

By the middle of February, some 80% of people will have broken their New Year’s resolutions, a clinical psychologist wrote in U.S. News and World Report.

As 2019 comes to a close, the Healio Pulmonology Editors have compiled a list of the most-read articles published this year.

Marijuana e-cigarette use increased by almost 4 percentage points among middle school and high school students from 2017 to 2018, according to study findings published in JAMA.

Patients who regularly used cannabis were more likely to have adverse changes in subclinical dysfunction and left ventricular size compared with those who rarely or never used the substance, according to a study published in JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging.