All Posts: smoking

• Smoking, Tobacco Use Among Teens Continues to Drop Even as Use of E-cigs Grows

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, cancer prevention, Georgetown Lombardi, smoking, smoking cessation, teen smoking, tobacco use

• Menthol Cigarette Ban in the U.S. May Lower Number of Smokers

  WASHINGTON (July 8, 2020) — Extending the United States cigarette flavor ban to include menthol products could encourage existing smokers to quit and lower the rates of people starting to smoke, according to a study published in the open access journal BMC Public Health. Under the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, the […]

  Category: News Release Tags: e-cigarettes, menthol, smoking, smoking cessation

• Adding Smoking Cessation to Lung Cancer Screening Can Reduce Mortality by 14%

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, lung cancer, lung cancer screening, smoking, smoking cessation

• Understanding the Link Between Nicotine Use and Misuse of “Benzos”

  WASHINGTON (February 26, 2020) — Studies have correlated a relationship between smoking or vaping nicotine with misuse of other substances, such as alcohol and prescription drugs. Lately, misuse of prescription benzodiazepines (such as alprazolam or Xanax, and diazepam or Valium) has also been linked to nicotine use. These connections have all been statistically derived — […]

  Category: News Release Tags: nicotine, smoking, substance use disorder, vaping

• Georgetown Tobacco Control Expert Outlines Motivations of Altria-Juul Deal and Its Public Health Impact

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, e-cigarettes, Georgetown Lombardi, smoking

• As Vaping Increased in Popularity, Use of Cigarettes Declined

  MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (November 20, 2018) — A comprehensive analysis examining the relationship between vaping and smoking among youth and young adults finds that cigarette smoking dramatically decreased between 2013 and 2017 just as e-cigarette use became more popular. The study, published in the journal Tobacco Control, looked at five different U.S. population-level surveys that covered […]

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, e-cigarettes, smoking, vaping

• Graphic Cigarette Warnings Trigger Brain Areas Key to Quitting Smoking

  WASHINGTON — Viewing graphic anti-smoking images on cigarette packs triggers activity in brain areas involved in emotion, decision-making and memory as observed via brain scans. Researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center and Truth Initiative reported their findings online this week in Addictive Behaviors Reports.

  Category: News Release Tags: addiction research, cancer, population health, smoking

• ‘Not Just a Flavoring’: Menthol and Nicotine, Combined, Desensitize Airway Receptors

  Menthol acts in combination with nicotine to desensitize receptors in lungs’ airways that are responsible for nicotine’s irritation, say neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC).

  Category: News Release Tags: menthol, pharmacology, smoking