Tobacco Use

United States Preventive Services Task Force recommended that clinicians ask all adults about tobacco use and provide them with behavioral interventions and even FDA-approved pharmacotherapy to help them quit smoking.

In 2020, 23.6% of high school students and 6.7% of middle school students reported using any tobacco product, although the number of users declined by 1.73 million from 2019 to about 4.45 million, according to data published in MMWR.

New data suggest that methamphetamine users may be more likely to be hospitalized for pulmonary diseases such as pneumonia and acute respiratory failure.

In 2018, cigarette smoking among U.S. adults reached a low of 13.7% — the lowest prevalence recorded since 1965, according to new data published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

BARCELONA — The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, or IASLC, today issued a declaration at its World Conference on Lung Cancer advising all physicians to screen their patients with cancer for tobacco use and recommend tobacco cessation.