December 12, 2016
It’s About a Billion Lives
Celebrating Tobacco Research and Education at UCSF
Children and Tobacco 2017: Who’s Winning?
Jonathan Klein, MD, MPH, FAAP
Associate Executive Director and Director,
Richmond Center of Excellence, American Academy of Pediatrics
"Rather wreck my gums than my lungs":
Smokeless tobacco and California rural adolescent males
Benjamin Chaffee, DDS, MPH, PhD
Assistant Professor, Preventive and Restorative Dentistry Sciences
Smokers with psychological distress: As smoking drops they attempt to quit more and smoke less
Margarete Kulik, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education
Poster Session
Philip Morris data shows FDA mandating lower cigarette nicotine levels would improve population health
Eunice Neeley, MD, MPH
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education
Booze, Butts or Both? Combating young adult tobacco use in bars
December 12, 2016
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December 10, 2016
Lukasz Antoniewicz and colleagues just published an experimental study in which they had healthy young volunteers take 10 puffs on an e-cigarette over 10 minutes. There was an immediate increase in the amount of endothelial progenitor cells (EPS) that remained elevated for over 4 hours. They had returned to baseline levels by 24 hours.
EPC’s are markers of damage to the lining of arteries (called the vascular endothelium). Damage to the endothelium is linked to immediate increases of the risk of a heart attack in people at risk of heart attacks and also contributes to the long-term development of atherosclerosis (buildup of blockages of arteries in the heart) and peripheral vascular disease (blockage of other arteries). The reason is that the endothelium is a lining of arteries that protects the underlying muscle and other structures. When the endothelium is torn, it makes it possible for fat to get into the artery wall and start building up a blockage.
These effects are comparable in magnitude, but faster than the effects of smoking a cigarette observed by the same group.
December 7, 2016
Here is the press release:
Surgeon General Reports Youth and Young Adult E-Cigarette Use Poses a Public Health Threat
Issues call to action to reduce e-cigarette use among young people
A new report from the U.S. Surgeon General raises public health concerns about e-cigarette use among U.S. youth and young adults. The report comes amid alarming rates of youth and young adult use of e-cigarettes; in 2015, about 1 in 6 high school students used an e-cigarette in the past month. The report finds that, while nicotine is a highly addictive drug at any age, youth and young adults are uniquely vulnerable to the long-term consequences of exposing the brain to nicotine, and concludes that youth use of nicotine in any form is unsafe. The report also finds that secondhand aerosol that is exhaled into the air by e-cigarette users can expose others to potentially harmful chemicals.
November 28, 2016
We just submitted the following comment to the FDA. The tracking number is 1k0-8tan-dl14. (PDF version)
Listing of Ingredients in Tobacco Products –
Revised Draft Guidance for Industry
Docket Number FDA-2009-D-0524
Lauren K. Lempert, Lucy Popova*, Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, Benjamin Chaffee, Neal Benowitz, Gideon St. Helen, Eunice Neeley, Stanton A. Glantz
University of California, San Francisco TCORS
*Georgia State University, School of Public Health
November 28, 2016