Smoking and Tobacco News

The findings of a CDC analysis on the prevalence of smoking and cigarette purchases by adolescents have the potential to influence tobacco control strategies on reducing and preventing the advertisement and selling of tobacco products to teenagers.

Adding flavors and intensifying the power of e-cigarettes substantially increases toxicity, according to study results published in Tobacco Control.

Sports-related marketing expenditures for cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products significantly decreased during the past two decades; however, there is evidence that smokeless tobacco is still being marketed, warranting a need for stricter laws against advertising tobacco in sports, according to a recent data analysis by the CDC.

Pierre Massion , MD, professor of cancer research and co-leader of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center’s cancer health outcomes and control program, has been selected to direct the cancer center’s early detection and prevention initiative.

Financial incentives raised smoking cessation rates among low-income smokers, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

An increase in distance to a tobacco store from home was associated with increased odds of smoking cessation, according to research published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

PCPs should counsel their adolescent patients about the risks of using any product that contains nicotine, including e-cigarettes, the use of which has escalated rapidly among teens, according to data published in Preventing Chronic Disease.

The use of vaporized nicotine products, such as e-cigarettes, projected a reduction in the number of smoking-related deaths by 21% when compared with a scenario without e-cigarettes in which smokers used traditional tobacco products, according to a modeling study.

Smokers who began an attempt to quit smoking in the last week reported lower alcohol consumption, and were more likely to report attempting to reduce their drinking compared with smokers who did not report an effort to quit in the last week, according to a recent study.

The popularity of e-cigarettes among ninth-grade students appears to be motivated by the appeal of trying something new, rather than smoking cessation, according to study results.