Smoking

Smoking modestly increased the risk for severe disease in hospitalized patients with COVID-19, particularly among younger patients without diabetes, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis.

A decrease in hip fractures among adults born more recently may be due to improved lifestyle factors such as reduced smoking and less heavy drinking, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The American Thoracic Society issued a new clinical practice guideline that outlines recommendations for initiating pharmacologic treatment for smoking cessation in tobacco-dependent adults.

J. Rob Headrick, MD, MBA, understands the psychology of smokers.

Baseline smoking is strongly associated with worse MRI sacroiliac joint inflammation among blue-collar or “low education” patients with axial spondyloarthritis, according to data published in Arthritis & Rheumatology.

The FDA recently authorized Philip Morris International to market its IQOS Tobacco Heating System. Physicians told Healio Primary Care that the public health impact of the agency’s decision is not immediately apparent.

The LGBTQ+ community faces unique challenges in terms of cancer diagnosis and management.

Achieve Life Sciences announced positive top-line results of the RAUORA trial demonstrating that cytisinicline was noninferior to varenicline for smoking cessation.

People with small airways relative to the size of their lungs may have a lower breathing capacity and, consequently, increased risk for COPD, even if they do not smoke or have other risk factors, according to a study published in JAMA.

Black adults who currently smoked cigarettes had a dose-dependent higher risk for stroke compared with those who never smoked or did so in the past, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.