A computer vision model can accurately distinguish large cigars from non-cigar images, offering a novel and scalable approach to tobacco product monitoring on social media and other digital media, find Grace Kong et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

Adolescents and young adults report they are more likely to purchase and use e-cigarettes when exposed to and receptive to e-cig retail marketing - particularly when products are easily accessible and advertised prominently, find Madison O’Connell et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

Increasing trends in cigarette discontinuation rates among adults who use electronic nicotine delivery systems in the US are not specific to any flavor, device type, or age group, find Karin Kasza et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

People who smoke cigarettes and use cannabis are more responsive to cigarette prices than those who smoke cigarettes but do not use cannabis, find Tingting Yao et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

Reflections on an Editorial year Editorial by Editor-in-Chief Caitlin Notley academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-... @addictionuea.bsky.social

Nicotine’s metabolic safety profile is governed more by how often it is used than by the nominal dose, finds animal study by Runwen Qin et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

The Short Nicotine Dependence Index: a new simple and versatile self-report measure of nicotine dependence for general populations developed by Sarah Jackson et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

Tackling the “Filter Fraud”: A Call for Policy Action to Address Environmental and Health Harms Caused by Cigarette Filters Commentary by Shannon Gravely et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

Salient beliefs underlying young adults’ flavored e-cigarette use include perceived benefits for reducing stress and improving mental health, find Rebekah Wicke et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

Act Now to Save Science: The Importance of Tobacco Health Equity Research Commentary by Jin Kim-Mozeleski et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

US veterans have higher prevalence of current use of cigars, pipes, polytobacco use, and cigarettes, compared to non-Veterans, find Jennifer Cornacchione Ross et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

Adaptation Process of a Culturally Tailored Smoking Cessation Intervention for People living with Severe Mental Illness in South Asia: IMPACT 4S Aslam Faiza et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

The Message That E-Cigarettes Are Less Harmful Than Combustible Cigarettes Is Not Getting Through Letter from Neil McKeganey et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

Adults who smoke attending the emergency department who received a smoking cessation intervention were significantly more likely to report abstinence 18 months after randomization, find Ian Pope et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

The BDNF-Trk-β/IL-6 cascade in the cerebral cortex may prevent nicotine relapse by alleviating hyperalgesia and neuropathic pain during smoking cessation/nicotine withdrawal, find Vishakha Shrimali et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

Cigarette Smoking with Serious Mental Illness: US Provider and Veteran Beliefs About How to Quit Article by Corinne Kacmarek et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

Understanding the Emergence, Use, and Appeal of Nicotine Pouches: From the Chemistry Lab to TikTok Editorial by Alayna Tackett et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

Implementation science tools were unevenly utilized in tobacco control research in the U.S. reported from 2000-2020, finds scoping review by Rebecca Selove et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

On-pack pictorial warning labels featuring monetary savings, empathetic health messages, and family-oriented benefits can stimulate thoughts of quitting more effectively than a health-oriented label designed to arouse fear, find Philip Gendall et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

Study by Daining Song et al. funds abnormalities in the local functional activity of white matter in young smokers, and the aberrant activity was related the severity of smoking. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

Flavored e-cigarette policies are effective at reducing past 30-day and established e-cigarette use among younger adults (age 21-29), but the impact among older adults (30+) is less evident, find John Kingsbury et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

Ploom, Pax Labs, and Juul Labs used entertainment industry firms and outreach to prop masters to obtain free numerous product placements, find Tanner Wakefield et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

Sexual minority adults in Hispanic groups, particularly Hispanic sexual minority females, may be at increased risk for e-cigarette use compared with Hispanic heterosexual females, find Juhan Lee and Andy Tan. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

“Light touch” culturally tailored tobacco cessation support before or after Ramadan was felt more promising than supporting cessation initiation during Ramadan, find Felix Naughton et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

NFL-101 at a dose of 100 μg increased 6-week post-quit 28-day continuous smoking abstinence that was confirmed by urinary cotinine, finds RCT by Claire Lafay-Chebassier et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

Lower-income groups are more price-responsive than the high-income group in reducing smoking participation but smokers in these lower-income groups are not price-responsive in reducing smoking intensity, find Courtney Keeler et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

Secondhand e-cigarette and tobacco smoke exposure remains highly prevalent among U.S 6th-12th graders and is strongly associated with early stages of e-cigarette use, but not later stages, find Stephen Freeman et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

Urinary tobacco biomarkers are non-linearly associated with transitions in tobacco product use, find Andrew Brouwer et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

What tranSPIREs from recent research on e-cigarettes? Towards a comprehensive approach to model vaping policies Editorial by Lion Shahab and Hazel Squires academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-... @lionshahab.bsky.social

Cognitive-behavioral counseling for smoking cessation is more effective in achieving abstinence in the presence of varenicline, suggests study by Jennifer Minnix et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

“Stealth vaping is everywhere” suggests qualitative study of young Māori adults in New Zealand by Robin Quigg et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

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Meta-analysis by Shiya Ji et al. suggests a bidirectional association between e-cigarette use and depression. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

Text warnings covering a range of health harms may be effective in discouraging waterpipe tobacco smoking among young adults, find Erin Sutfin et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

A DNA methylation marker, cg05575921 (AHRR), outperforms self-reported smoking exposure for its association with cardiovascular disease prevalence, find Gregory Jones et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

Appeal of e-cigarettes and Heated Tobacco Products (HTPs) remains relatively low among people who have never used e-cigarettes, HTPs or smoking tobacco in the European Union, but is higher among younger age groups, find Charlotte Li et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

rom Invisibility to Action: Tobacco Control Research for Arab Americans in the New Middle Eastern/North African (MENA) Ethnic Category Commentary by Sarah Alnahari et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

Study by Meng Yang et al. identifies optimal cotinine and TNE-2 cut-points for differentiating past-7-day and past-30-day tobacco use from non-use among youth, providing a valuable tool for objective assessment and validation of tobacco use status. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

Three in four young adults in California who have ever vaped have tried to quit vaping. However, those who have been successful are typically using non-approved cessation methods and relapse rates are high, find Reid Whaley et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

Female sex is associated with higher COPD incidence, independent of cigarette smoking, second-hand smoke exposure, e-cigarette use, and other covariates, find Jenny Ozga et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

In countries with long histories of public education about smoking harms, periodically strengthening health warning labels on cigarette packs appears to have diminishing impacts on smokers’ reactions, find Bibha Dhungel et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

In Pakistan, more children report using e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches than smoking cigarettes, find Midhat Farzeen et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

Although most Indonesian provinces implement smokefree policies, further strengthening key policy dimensions including monitoring, enforcement and compliance are needed to maximise impact, suggests study by Fitri Rahim et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

Nicotine and Tobacco Research Related to Sex/Gender: A 10-Year Update Editorial by Elise DeVito et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

While e-cigarettes are a popular cessation aid, use of other evidence-based cessation assistance has remained comparatively stable among adults that tried to quit smoking, find Kimberly D’Mello et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

Financial strain, nicotine dependence, early self-efficacy challenges, and medication experience may be targets for improving smoking abstinence among those at high risk for early treatment failure, find Archana Sundar et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

Community Perceptions of Flavor Restriction Policies: A Scoping Review of Disaggregated Outcomes by Tong Lin et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

More than 15 months after California prohibited flavored tobacco sales, only one in five college students was aware of the law, find Nora Satybaldiyeva et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

The world conference on tobacco control – mixed perspectives and controversies Editorial by editor-in-chief Caitlin Notley academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

Self-reported lifetime chronic pain diagnosis is associated with a modest decrease in response to treatment with nicotine replacement therapy combined with behavioural support, find Sabrina Voci et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...