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: February 15, 2023)
General Tobacco Control News and Research
- A recent report found that substance use among youth declined across almost all substance categories during the pandemic. Tobacco use was down from 37.8 to 22.8 percent.
- Smoking during pregnancy has significantly declined since 2016, falling from 7.2% of pregnant women in 2016 to 4.6% in 2021.
- A newly developed machine learning method may be able to identify drugs that could be repurposed to help people quit smoking cigarettes.
- Recent research has found that smoking cessation for longer than 10 years is associated with a significant decrease in risk of mortality from head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
- A study found that people who use e-cigarettes have the same amount of DNA damage as people who smoke regular cigarettes, which is more than twice the amount seen in non-users of either.
- A recent study found that infants of mothers who use oral tobacco products during pregnancy have three times the risk of sudden infant death syndrome.
