Each month, GHEA aggregates the latest news and research related to place-based tobacco control and geographic health disparities. Below you will find the latest posts, updated regularly throughout the month.
(Last updated: August 19, 2022)
General Tobacco Control News and Research
- CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health recently released a new article on morbidity-related productivity losses attributable to cigarette smoking in 2018.
- The American Lung Association published new Medicaid coverage tobacco cessation resources: Making the Case to Improve Medicaid Coverage resource guide and State-specific Tobacco Cessation Medicaid Coverage fact sheets.
- Researchers examine contributing factors of health disparities in tobacco usage and outcomes affecting Black Americans.
- A study examines perspectives on cigarette use, e-cigarettes and antitobacco campaigns among adolescent sexual minority and gender diverse groups.
- A study examines the effect of modified risk tobacco product claims on consumer risk perceptions and behavioral intentions.
- A simulation study examined the potential effect of banning tobacco retail outlets near schools as a way to reduce tobacco marketing disparities in communities.
- Researchers examine the association between exposure to e-cigarette product placement in music videos and susceptibility to use e-cigarettes among young adults.
- A recent study examined the awareness, use and risk perceptions of heated tobacco products in the U.S. following FDA’s authorization of iQOS.
- An article explores the tobacco industry’s continued use of filters to suggest lower health risks for their products.
- Researchers examine the levels of nicotine and tobacco specific nitrosamines in oral nicotine pouches.
