Smoking and Tobacco News

Well-child visits provided a “unique opportunity” and “reliable point of contact” for primary care physicians to evaluate and discuss maternal health risks that could lead to poor birth outcomes in the future, according to findings recently published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine.

Smoking cessation pharmacotherapies, including varenicline, bupropion and nicotine replacement therapy, do not increase the risk for major adverse cardiovascular events, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Several leading medical and public health associations filed a lawsuit today against the FDA, challenging its August 2017 decision to delay the regulation of e-cigarettes and cigars, according to a press release.

Abstinence from tobacco was less likely in cigarette smokers who used e-cigarettes after being discharged from the hospital, according to findings published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

More than half of patients who received Chantix after an acute coronary syndrome event resumed smoking, according to findings recently published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

In a phase 4 study testing its effectiveness in teenagers, Chantix did not achieve sustained smoking cessation, according to Pfizer, the product’s manufacturer.

Although measles infection during childhood is not independently linked to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease — or post-bronchodilator airflow obstruction —  the infection can strengthen the association between smoking, current asthma and post-bronchodilator airflow obstruction.

Today, the FDA issued an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking to lower nicotine in combustible cigarettes to minimally or nonaddictive levels.

Although some adults may successfully quit smoking through the use of e-cigarettes, the number of those who benefit from the product is far outweighed by the number of teenagers and young adults who transition from e-cigarette use to cigarette smoking and the number of years lost on a population level, according to research published in PLoS ONE. 

Slightly more than 7 percent of all women who gave birth in 2016 smoked during their gestation, according to a data brief just released from the CDC.