December 2007

The following is a monthly list of selected journal articles and reports on tobacco topics, with an emphasis on Canadian authors and research.  Please note that this list is not all-inclusive. We try to choose titles of interest to our tobacco control network, but we realize that there are many relevant articles that are not listed.

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Aboriginal Peoples

Hammond MR, Rennie C, Dickson J.
Distance education for Inuit smoking counsellors in Canada: A case report. International Journal of Circumpolar Health 2007 Sept;66(4):284-286. - pdf full text

Cessation – Quitlines

Campbell HS, Ossip-Klein D, Bailey L, Saul J, the Research and Evaluation Working Group, North American Quitline Consortium.
Minimal dataset for quitlines: A best practice. Tobacco Control 2007 Dec;16(Suppl 1):i16-i20.

Cummins SE, Bailey L, Campbell S, Koon-Kirby C, Zhu SH.
Tobacco Cessation quitlines in North America: A descriptive study. Tobacco Control 2007 Dec;16(Suppl 1):i9-i15.

Note: You can browse the full supplement of Tobacco Control for other articles on quitlines at: http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/vol16/Suppl_1/

Cessation – Review Articles

Le Foll B, George TP.
Treatment of tobacco dependence: Integrating recent progress into practice. Canadian Medical Association Journal 2007 Nov 20;177(11):1373-1380. – pdf full text

Cessation – Special Populations

Currie SR, Karltyn J, Lussier D, de Denus E, Brown D, el-Guebaly N.
Outcome from a community-based smoking cessation program for persons with serious mental illness. Community and Mental Health Journal 2007 Nov 30 [Epub ahead of print].

Genetic Aspects

Mwenifumbo JC, Tyndale RF.
Genetic variability in CYP2A6 and the pharmacokinetics of nicotine. Pharmacogenomics 2007 Oct; 8(10):1385-1402.

Ring HZ, Valdes AM, Nishita DM, Prasad S, Jacob P 3rd, Tyndale RF, et al.
Gene-gene interactions between CYP2B6 and CYP2A6 in nicotine metabolism. Pharmacogenetics and Genomics 2007 Dec;17(12):1007-1015.

Smokeless Tobacco

Ebbert JO, Montori V, Vickers KS, Erwin PC, Dale LC, Stead LF.
Interventions for smokeless tobacco use cessation. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2007 Oct 17;(4):CD004306.

Smoking Reduction

Levy DE, Thorndike AN, Biener L, Rigotti NA.
Use of nicotine replacement therapy to reduce or delay smoking but not to quit: Prevalence and association with subsequent cessation efforts. Tobacco Control 2007 Dec;16(6):384-389.

Shiffman S, Hughes JR, Ferguson SG, Pillitteri JL, Gitchell JG, Burton SL.
Smokers’ interest in using nicotine replacement to aid smoking reduction. Nicotine and Tobacco Research 2007 Nov;9(11):1177-1182.

Taxation

Shelley D, Cantrell J, Moon-Howard J, Ramjohn DQ, VanDevanter N.
The $5 man: The underground economic response to a large cigarette tax increase in New York City. American Journal of Public Health 2007 Aug;97(8):1483-1488.

Tobacco Control – Funding

Nelson DE, Reynolds JH, Luke DA, Mueller NB, Eischen MH, Jordan J, et al.
Successfully maintaining program funding during trying times: Lessons from tobacco control programs in five states. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice 2007 Nov-Dec;13(6):612-620.

Women – Health Effects

Breast Cancer Family Registry; Kathleen Cuningham Consortium for Research into Familial Breast Cancer (Australasia); Ontario Cancer Genetics Network (Canada).
Smoking and risk of breast cancer in carriers of mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 aged less than 50 years. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment 2007 Oct 31 [Epub ahead of print]. – pdf full text

Setty AR, Curhan G, Choi HK.
Smoking and the risk of psoriasis in women: Nurses’ Health Study II. American Journal of Medicine 2007 Nov;120(11):953-959.

Young Adults – Ontario

Lawrance KA, Lawler SA.
Campus physicians’ tobacco interventions with university students: A descriptive study of 16 Ontario university clinics. Patient Education and Counseling 2007 Nov 23 [Epub ahead of print].

Youth

Bancej C, O’Loughlin J, Platt RW, Paradis G, Gervais A.
Smoking cessation attempts among adolescent smokers: A systematic review of prevalence studies. Tobacco Control 2007 Dec;16(6):e8.

Lovato CY, Sabiston CM, Hadd V, Nykiforuk CI, Campbell HS.
The impact of school smoking policies and student perceptions of enforcement on school smoking prevalence and location of smoking. Health Education Research 2007 Dec;22(6);782-793. – pdf full text


Tomar SL, Hatsukami DK.
Perceived risk of harm from cigarettes or smokeless tobacco among U.S. high school seniors. Nicotine and Tobacco Research 2007 Nov;9(11):1191-1196.

Zhang B, Cartmill C, Ferrence R.
The role of spending money and drinking alcohol in adolescent smoking. Addiction 2007 Nov 27 [Epub ahead of print].

Editorials and Letters of Note

Callaghan RC, Tavares J, Taylor L. Illicit cigarette markets in marginalized, low-income populations: A study of psychiatric patients in Toronto, Ontario. American Journal of Public Health 2007 Nov 29 [Epub ahead of print].  [Letter]

Cohen JE, Planinac LC, O’Connor SC, Lavack AM, Robinson DJ, Thompson FE. Keeping the point-of-sale environment at the forefront. American Journal of Public Health 2007 Nov 29 [Epub ahead of print].  [Letter]

Husten CG. Smoking cessation in young adults. American Journal of Public Health 2007 Jun 28 [Epub ahead of print]. [Editorial]

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