March 14, 2016
Philip Gendall, Janet Hoek, Richard Edwards, and I just published "Effect of Exposure to Smoking in Movies on Young Adult Smoking in New Zealand" in PLOS One. This paper showed that 18-25 year olds in New Zealand were affected by exposure to on-screen smoking just as youth around the world are, with people who saw more smoking being more likely to smoke.
Interestingly, the population attributable risk for smoking among the New Aealand young adults was 54%, higher than the 37% observed in the USA. This is not surprising because traditional cigarette advertising is banned in New Zealand, so the movie smoking is competiting with fewer other pro-tobacco influences as the reason people start smoking.
Here is the abstract:
March 8, 2016
Jun Ho Cho and Samuel Y Pak just published an excellent paper, “Association between electronic cigarette use and asthma among high school students in South Korea,” which convincingly demonstrates that high school students (around 16 years old) who use e-cigarettes are much more likely to develop asthma (diagnosed by a doctor) and miss more days of school.
They did a very careful analysis that controlled for a wide variety of risk factors for asthma accounted for whether or not the youth were or had used cigarettes in the past. Youth who already had asthma were excluded.
While they consider all the different patterns of cigarette and e-cigarette use, the most compelling results are from youth who that never smoked a cigarette. Among this group, youth who used e-cigarettes were
March 6, 2016
Direct evidence of tobacco product placement and smoking behavioral placement in French movies
Prepared by Pascal Diethelm, president, OxyRomandie
Since the early 1990s, France has one of the strictest tobacco advertising bans in the world. The Loi Évin (law named after Claude Évin, the French minister of health who drafted the law) adopted in 1991 introduced a comprehensive ban of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship, making France compliant with the requirement of the WHO Framework Convention for Tobacco well in advance of its ratification of this international treaty. The law has been generally well enforced, in particular because NGOs acting as watchdogs were allowed by the government to file legal complaints against non-compliant tobacco companies. Overall, for the last 25 years, above-the-line tobacco advertising has been inexistent in France, a country which can therefore be considered one of the darkest markets in the world for tobacco products.
March 4, 2016
We just submitted this public comment to the FDA. The tracking number is 1k0-8ob6-gewv. (PDF version)
RJ Reynold’s Unpublished Randomized Controlled Trial Finds that Camel Snus is Not Effective for Smoking Cessation
Docket No. FDA-2016-N-0073
Eunice E. Neeley, MD, MPH, Lauren K. Lempert, JD, MPH, Stanton A. Glantz, PhD
Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California, San Francisco
RJ Reynolds’ Unpublished Study on Camel Snus Compared to Nicotine Replacement Therapy for Smoking Cessation is Responsive to FDA’s Request for Studies Regarding Predictors of Consumer Initiation, Uptake, and Use of a Tobacco Product
March 4, 2016
We just submitted this public comment to the FDA. The tracking number is 1k0-8ob6-gewv. (PDF version)
RJ Reynold’s Unpublished Randomized Controlled Trial Finds that Camel Snus is Not Effective for Smoking Cessation
Docket No. FDA-2016-N-0073
Eunice E. Neeley, MD, MPH, Lauren K. Lempert, JD, MPH, Stanton A. Glantz, PhD
Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California, San Francisco
RJ Reynolds’ Unpublished Study on Camel Snus Compared to Nicotine Replacement Therapy for Smoking Cessation is Responsive to FDA’s Request for Studies Regarding Predictors of Consumer Initiation, Uptake, and Use of a Tobacco Product