June 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.

Alcohol

Special Edition on Alcohol and Nicotine.
Alcohol and Alcoholism, 2007 May-June;42(3).

Cessation

Reid RD, Quinlan B, Riley DL, Pipe AL.
Smoking cessation: Lessons learned from clinical trial evidence. Current Opinion in Cardiology, 2007 Jul;22(4):280-285.

Cessation - Biomedical Risk Assessment

Bize R, Burnand B, Mueller Y, Cornuz J.
Effectiveness of biomedical risk assessment as an aid for smoking cessation: A systematic review. Tobacco Control, 2007 Jun;16(3):151-156.

Cessation - Nicotine Replacement Therapy

Etter JF, Burri M, Stapleton J.
The impact of pharmaceutical company funding on results of randomized trials of nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation: A meta-analysis. Addiction, 2007 May;102(5):815-822.

Cessation – Self-Help Materials

Sutton S, Gilbert H.
Effectiveness of individually tailored smoking cessation advice letters as an adjunct to telephone counselling and generic self-help materials: Randomized controlled trial. Addiction, 2007 Jun;102(6):994-1000.

Genetic Aspects

Ho MK, Tyndale RF.
Overview of the pharmacogenomics of cigarette smoking. Pharmacogenomics Journal, 2007 Apr;7(2):81-98.

Legislation – Workplace

Carpenter, Christopher.
How do Workplace Smoking Laws Work? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Local Laws in Ontario, Canada. NBER Working Paper Series,Working paper 13133.  Washington, DC: National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2007.

Wilson N, Sertsou G, Edwards R, Thomson G, Grigg M, Li J.
A new national smokefree law increased calls to a national quitline. BMC Public Health, 2007 May 8;7:75. PDF full text.

Obesity

Chiolero A, Jacot-Sadowski I, Faeh D, Paccaud F, Cornuz J.
Association of cigarettes smoked daily with obesity in a general adult population. Obesity, 2007 May;15(5):1311-1318.

Secondhand Smoke – Health Effects

Goodwin RD.
Environmental tobacco smoke and the epidemic of asthma in children: The role of cigarette use. Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, 2007 May;98(5):447-454.

Kallio K, Jokinen E, Raitakari OT, Hämäläinen M, Siltala M, Volanen I, et al.
Tobacco smoke exposure is associated with attenuated endothelial function in 11-year-old health children. Circulation, 2007 Jun 4; [epub ahead of print].

Secondhand Smoke – Public Places

Germain D, Wakefield M, Durkin S.
Non-smokers’ responses when smokers light up: A population-based study. Preventive Medicine, 2007 Apr 14 [epub ahead of print].

Smokeless Tobacco

Changrani J, Gany FM, Cruz G, Kerr R, Katz R.
Paan and gutka use in the United States: A pilot study in Bangladeshi and Indian-Gujarati immigrants in New York City. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 2006;4(1):99-110. PDF full text.

Croucher RE, Islam SS, Pau AK.
Concurrent tobacco use in a random sample of UK-resident Bangladeshi men. Journal of Public Health Dentistry, 2007;67(2):83-88.

Hatsukami DK, Ebbert JO, Anderson A, Lin H, Le C, Hecht SS.
Smokeless tobacco brand switching: A means to reduce toxicant exposure? Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2007 Mar 16;87(2-3):217-224.

Shiffman S, Gitchell J, Rohay JM, Hellebusch SJ, Kemper KE.
Smokers’ preferences for medicinal nicotine vs smokeless tobacco. American Journal of Health Behavior, 2007 Sep 1;31(5):462-472.

Trend Analysis

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Decline in smoking prevalence - New York city, 2002-2006. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2007 June 22;56(24):604-608.

Grimard F, Parent D.
Education and smoking: Were Vietnam war draft avoiders also more likely to avoid smoking? Journal of Health Economics, 2007 Mar 27; [epub ahead of print].

Women

Healton CG, Gritz ER, Davis KC, Homsi G, McCausland K, Haviland ML, et al.
Women’s knowledge of the leading causes of cancer death. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 2007 July;9(7):761-768.

Youth – Cessation

Leatherdale ST, McDonald PW.
Youth smokers’ beliefs about different cessation approaches: Are we providing cessation interventions they never intend to use? Cancer Causes and Control, 2007 Jun 5; [epub ahead of print].

Youth – Screening Instruments

Richardson CG, Johnson JL, Ratner PA, Zumbo BD, Bottorff JL, Shoveller JA, et al.
Validation of the Dimensions of Tobacco Dependence Scale for adolescents. Addictive Behaviors, 2007 Jul;32(7):1498-1504.

Youth - Access

Evaluation of Retailers’ Behaviour Towards Certain Youth Access-to-Tobacco Restrictions: Final Report Findings: 2006. Ottawa, ON: Health Canada, 2007.

Youth – Socioeconomic Status

Hanson MD, Chen E.
Socioeconomic status and health behaviors in adolescence: A review of the literature. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 2007 May 20; [epub ahead of print].