Smoking and Tobacco News

Mortality rates have decreased across all age groups worldwide during the last 5 decades, and deaths in children younger than 5 years decreased to less than 5 million for the first time.

Despite recent support for family physicians to recommend e-cigarettes to patients who are trying to quit smoking, most of them do not, according to findings recently published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine.

Tailored interventions that target specific components of parents’ behavior can lower the occurrence of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, according to a report recently published in Pediatric Annals.

Seventeen public health and medical organizations have urged the American film industry to apply an R rating to all films that include depictions of smoking or other tobacco use.

A person’s access to healthy food choices may be a factor in whether he or she smokes, according to a report published in Preventing Chronic Disease.

Fewer than one-quarter of smokers hospitalized for CHD received smoking cessation pharmacotherapy during their stay, according to a research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Medical professionals had mixed reviews for the FDA’s recent announcement to pursue lower levels of nicotine in cigarettes, a multiyear strategy that the agency said is intended to better protect children and substantially lower the number of illnesses and deaths attributed to tobacco.

The FDA has announced its newest public health campaign targeted at discouraging children’s use of e-cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems.

A Surgeon General’s report issued in 2014 linked the increased prevalence of lung adenocarcinomas in the United States to changing cigarette designs, specifically the small filter ventilation holes in “light” cigarettes adopted in the mid-1960s.

The FDA announced a multiyear plan today that could limit the amount of nicotine in cigarettes.