Smoking and Tobacco News

The FDA is investigating a potential link between the use of e-cigarettes and a risk for seizures, Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, said in a statement.

Cartoon characters — which have been banned from tobacco advertising for nearly 10 years — were just one of the techniques used by cigarette manufacturers to tempt children to boost sales of their sugary drink products, according to an analysis recently published in The BMJ.

Individuals who have quit smoking for a sustained period of time — 30 or more years — have a 37% reduced risk for seropositive rheumatoid arthritis, compared with those who quit between 0 and 5 years ago, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.

Smoking increased the odds an assisted reproductive technology procedure involving embryos within the body was cancelled, according to findings recently published in the Journal of Women’s Health.

Children who were bullied and sexually abused were more likely to smoke and excessively drink alcohol as adults, according to findings recently published in BMC Public Health.

The CDC recently urged primary care physicians to step up their efforts to identify smokers among their patients aged younger than 18 years.

There was a significant decrease in flavored tobacco product use among U.S. youth in middle and high school between 2014 and 2016, but the trend reversed from 2016 to 2017, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Cigarette smoking appeared significantly associated with poor pathological response to cisplatin-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy among patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer who underwent radical cystectomy, according to results of a single-center study.

Local tobacco retail licensing may decrease the rates of cigarette and e-cigarette use in adolescents and young adults, according to study results published in Pediatrics.

The number of adults screened via the wrong clinical pathway for lung cancer “greatly exceeded” those screened via U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations for the same condition, according to findings recently published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.