October 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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Cessation

Lang IA, Rice NE, Wallace RB, Guralnik JM, Melzer D.
Smoking cessation and transition into retirement: analyses from the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing. Age and Ageing 2007 Sept 28; [Epub ahead of print].

Murtagh J, Foerster V.
Nicotine vaccines for smoking cessation. Issues in Emerging Health Technologies, 2007 Sept;(103):1-4. Ottawa: Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH), 2007. – pdf full text.

Cigarette Prices

Farrelly MC, Loomis BR, Mann NH.
Do increases in cigarette prices lead to increases in sales of cigarettes with high tar and nicotine yields? Nicotine and Tobacco Research 2007 Oct;9(10):1015-1020.

Health Effects

Reitz C, den Heijer T, van Duijn C, Hofman A, Breteler MM.
Relation between smoking and risk of dementia and Alzheimer disease: The Rotterdam Study. Neurology 2007;69(10):998-1005. – pdf full text.

Hookahs

Maziak W, Ward KD, Eissenberg T.
Interventions for waterpipe smoking cessation. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2007 Oct 17;(4):CD005549.

Neergaard J, Singh P, Job J, Montgomery S.
Waterpipe smoking and nicotine exposure:  A review of the current evidence. Nicotine and Tobacco Research 2007 Oct; 9(10):987-994.

Pregnancy

Cowperthwaite B, Hains SM, Kisilevsky BS.
Fetal behavior in smoking compared to non-smoking pregnant women. Infant Behavior and Development 2007 Sept;30(3):430-439.
 

Greaves L, Kalaw C, Bottorff JL.
Case studies of power and control related to tobacco use during pregnancy. Womens Health Issues 2007 Sept-Oct;17(5):325-332.

Pregnancy

Ruger JP, Emmons KM.
Economic evaluations of smoking cessation and relapse prevention programs for pregnant women: A systematic review. Value in Health 2007 Sept 13; [Epub ahead of print].

Sidle EH, Casselman R, Smith GN.
Effect of cigarette smoke on placental antioxidant enzyme expression. American Journal of Physiology – Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology 2007 Aug;293(2):R754-R758.
 

Research Funding

Ponder P, Jefferson AM, Backinger C, Grana R.
Tobacco-related research funding at the National Cancer Institute: Portfolio analysis, fiscal year 2003. Nicotine and Tobacco Research 2007 Oct;9(10):1053-1057.

Secondhand Smoke

Fisher LB, Winickoff JP, Camargo CA Jr, Colditz GA, Frazier AL.
Household smoking restrictions and adolescent smoking. American Journal of Health Promotion 2007 Sept-Oct;22(1):15-21.

Kegler MC, Escoffery C, Groff A, Butler S, Foreman A.
A qualitative study of how families decide to adopt household smoking restrictions. Family and Community Health 2007 Oct-Dec;30(4);328-341.

Mikaeloff Y, Caridade G, Tardieu M, Suissa S; KIDSEP study group.
Parental smoking at home and the risk of childhood-onset multiple sclerosis in children. Brain 2007 Oct; 130(Pt 10):2589-95.

Okoli CT, Rayens MK, Hahn EJ.
Behavioral effects of nicotine exposure from secondhand tobacco smoke among bar and restaurant workers. Addictive Behaviors 2007 Sept;32(9):1922-1928.

Tong EK, Glantz SA.
Tobacco industry efforts undermining evidence linking secondhand smoke with cardiovascular disease. Circulation 2007 Oct 16;116(16):1845-1854. – pdf full text.

Vork KL, Boradwin RL, Blaisdell RJ.
Developing asthma in childhood from exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke: Insights from a meta-regression. Environmental Health Perspectives 2007 Oct;115(10):1394-1400. – pdf full text.

Smoking Behaviour

O’Connor RJ, McNeill A, Borland R, Hammond D, King B, Boudreau C, et al.
Smokers’ beliefs about the relative safety of other tobacco products: Findings from the ITC Collaboration. Nicotine and Tobacco Research 2007 Oct; 9(10):1033-1042.

Trend Analysis – United States

Armour BS, Campbell VA, Crews JE, Malarcher A, Maurice E, Richard RA.
State-level prevalence of cigarette smoking and treatment advice, by disability status, United States, 2004. Preventing Chronic Disease 2007 Oct;4(4). – pdf full text.

Youth

DiFranza JR, Savageau JA, Fletcher K, Pbert L, O’Loughlin J, McNeill AD, et al.
Susceptibility to nicotine dependence: The development and assessment of Nicotine Dependence in Youth 2 Study. Pediatrics 2007 Oct;120(4):e974-e983. – pdf full text.

National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.
Tobacco: The Smoking Gun. New York: CASA, October 2007. – pdf full text.

Poulin CC.
School smoking bans: Do they help/do they harm? Drug and Alcohol Review 2007 Nov;26(6):615-624.

Ramchand R, Ialongo NS, Chilcoat HD.
The effect of working for pay on adolescent tobacco use. American Journal of Public Health 2007 Sept 27; [Epub ahead of print].

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