Smoking and Tobacco News

The American Lung Association has partnered with Pfizer to launch a mobile application to help smokers face obstacles associated with quitting, according to a press release.

Smoking places an additional significant financial burden on considerable populations of children residing in low-income households in the United Kingdom, according to recent study results.

Although reward-based programs for sustained abstinence from smoking were more likely to be accepted by participants, deposit-based programs were significantly more effective, according to study results.

Despite significantly decreasing rates of smoking over the past 50 years, cigarette smoking continues to be the cause of death for various types of cancer, according to recently published data in JAMA Internal Medicine.

While the prevalence of cigarette smoking decreased significantly across 26 states between 2011 and 2013, smokeless tobacco use decreased in only two states and increased in four states, according to data published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Smoking more than tripled the amount of annual ED visits in a retrospective analysis of Medicaid recipients, according to study results.

The receipt of a cancer diagnosis was associated with sustained smoking cessation regardless of the cancer’s prognosis or relation to smoking, according to study results.

Hispanic children who lived with smokers while growing up are twice as likely to smoke in adulthood, especially among Cuban and Puerto Rican populations, according to recently published data in Preventative Medicine.

DENVER — The use of electronic-cigarettes greatly improved the likelihood of smoking abstinence in study participants after 1 month, but the effect diminished at later follow-ups, according to data presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.

Healio.com/Pulmonology will present live coverage from the American Thoracic Society International Conference that runs May 15-20 in Denver.