Smoking and Tobacco News

Five health care organizations have urged the FDA to prohibit all candy- and fruit-flavored tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, cigars and hookah tobacco, asserting that these products are undermining national efforts to reduce youth tobacco use and placing children at health risks from tobacco use and nicotine addiction.

Approximately 26% of high school teenagers who use e-cigarettes also use the practice of “dripping” nicotine liquids onto the heating coils rather than inhaling through the mouthpiece, which could increase their exposure to nicotine and toxins.

Use of annual lung cancer screenings with low-dose CT remains low among current and former smokers following the 2013 recommendations by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, according to a research letter published in JAMA Oncology.

A sample of 12th graders who had never smoked a cigarette, but did use an e-cigarette, were more than four times likely to smoke a cigarette than those who had not vaped, according to an analysis recently published in Tobacco Control.

Data indicate that legislation against indoor smoking is linked to fewer pediatric ED visits for severe asthma exacerbations among children.

Researchers observed lower levels of selected carcinogens and toxins among former smokers who only used nicotine replacement therapies or e-cigarettes long-term compared to people who had used combustible cigarettes long-term, according to recent findings.

Delivering novel intervention via online sharing of personal experiences as a tool for smoking cessation produced slow recruitment and low rates of actual use, according to a recent feasibility trial published in Bio Med Central Public Health.

Adolescent e-cigarette users had increased rates of persistent cough, bronchitis and congestion/phlegm, according to a recent study published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Today, the USPSTF published its sixth annual report on high-priority evidence gaps for clinical preventive services to Congress.

New research of ever-smokers shows spirometrically-defined COPD states are not uniformly progressive and can improve with airflow severity staging or resolve spirometric abnormalities over time, according to a study published in Respiratory Research.