Tobacco Smoking

A parental smoking intervention was effective and “inexpensive” to implement in pediatric primary care practices, with costs per quit that were comparable to other interventions, according to researchers.

The use of tobacco products is a potential risk factor for worse COVID-19 outcomes, and a new paper in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society highlights types of research to better understand this relationship.

In a survey of adolescents from 2011 to 2019, cigarette and smokeless tobacco use has decreased rapidly since 2012 as use of e-cigarettes increased.

Current tobacco control programs over the past two decades led to a decrease in overall cigarette use uptake in the United States and California, with reductions largely observed among non-Hispanic white adults, according to a new study.

There was a substantial decline in the prevalence of secondhand smoke exposure among nonsmokers from 1988 to 2012, but progress has since stalled, researchers reported.

Low-dose chest CT screening resulted in “notable detection” of lung nodules among never smokers, researchers reported in the European Respiratory Journal.

In a new study, e-cigarette use was associated with increased risk for developing major respiratory diseases, including asthma, bronchitis and COPD, independent of cigarette smoking or use of other tobacco products.

Cigarette smoking remains the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States, according to a new report published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

The prevalence of e-cigarette use increased from 2018 to 2019 among current, former and never adult smokers in the United States, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

A new study that evaluated the applicability of newer individual risk-based prediction models for lung cancer screening highlights a need for new lung cancer screening methods that focus on population demographics and smoking history.