Objective—To assess the feasibility of reducing tobacco-caused disease by gradually removing nicotine from cigarettes until they would not be eVective causes of nicotine addiction. Data sources—Issues posed by such an approach, and potential solutions, were identified from analysis of literature published by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in its 1996 Tobacco Rule, comments of the tob...

Objective—To assess the feasibility of reducing tobacco-caused disease by gradually removing nicotine from cigarettes until they would not be eVective causes of nicotine addiction. Data sources—Issues posed by such an approach, and potential solutions, were identified from analysis of literature published by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in its 1996 Tobacco Rule, comments of the tob...

OBJECTIVE Compare tobacco use, exposure to second-hand smoke, and smoking cessation training among third-year medical technology students in Thailand between 2006 and 2011. MATERIAL AND METHOD The medical technology student survey was carried out with Global Health Professions Student Survey (GHPSS) between October and November 2011. The population of the present study was all students in nin...

BACKGROUND The aim was to assess the relationships between social and material deprivation and the use of tobacco, excessive alcohol and psychotropic drugs by both sexes and in various age groups. Greater knowledge concerning these issues may help public health policy-makers design more effective means of preventing substance abuse. METHODS The sample comprised 6,216 people aged > or 15 years...

IMPORTANCE Exposure to nicotine in electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) is becoming increasingly common among adolescents who report never having smoked combustible tobacco. OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether e-cigarette use among 14-year-old adolescents who have never tried combustible tobacco is associated with risk of initiating use of 3 combustible tobacco products (ie, cigarettes, cigars, and...

Despite the high prevalence of tobacco use among people with substance use disorders, tobacco dependence is often overlooked in addiction treatment programs. Several studies and a meta-analytic review have concluded that patients who receive tobacco dependence treatment during addiction treatment have better overall substance abuse treatment outcomes compared with those who do not. Barriers tha...

TOPIC: Tobacco Cessation and Prevention TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Electronic cigarette or vaping product use associated lung injury (EVALI) has received increasing attention by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) within last year due to a recent increase of cases acute with vaping. The CDC established criteria EVALI: 1) patient must have vaped 90 days prior sym...

Patients receiving opioid treatment for chronic pain, many of whom were hospitalized with medical complications of substance abuse, were asked to complete a screening questionnaire to help validate a simple self-administered survey. Questions relating to tobacco abuse and prior treatment for drug and alcohol abuse distinguished patients with addiction and pain from opioid-treated chronic pain p...

background: substance abuse is one of the most complicated social problems. understanding socio-demographic characteristics of those who abuse substances could help deal with this problem more efficiently. the main objective of this study was to determine socio-demographic characteristics associated with alcohol drinking, cigarettes smoking and drug abuse among a sample of male medical universi...