Today the Oral History Center at the UC Bancroft Library published an oral history of my career. Here is the Center’s announcement, together with a link to the history, which is freely available to all: New Oral History – Stanton Glantz: Putting Cardiovascular, Epidemiological, Economic, Political, and Policy Research into Action at UC San FranciscoContinue reading “UC publishes oral history of Stan Glantz’ career”
Category Archives: COVID
Heated tobacco products associated with COVID infection and severity in Japan; dual use is worse
It is well-established that smoking makes COVID-19 worse once you are infected, but the relationship between smoking and COVID infection is not as clear, due to the fact that most studies have not been based on population representative samples. Instead, most have been of tested people at a time that testing was limited and soContinue reading “Heated tobacco products associated with COVID infection and severity in Japan; dual use is worse”
Smokers at higher risk of COVID-19 death, particularly in low and middle income countries
Roengrudee Patanavanich, Tanatorn Siripoon, Salin Amponnavarat and I just published “Active smokers are at higher risk of COVID-19 death: A systematic review and meta-analysis” that finds that, among people diagnosed with COVID-19 both current and former smokers are at increased risk of death from COVID-19. This paper takes advantage of the growing number of studiesContinue reading “Smokers at higher risk of COVID-19 death, particularly in low and middle income countries”
e-cig users have more COVID-19 symptoms
It is well-established that smokers and former smokers who are infected with COVID-19 do worse. (How smoking affects risk of infection is still an open question.) Now, there is evidence that vaping makes COVID worse among people who are infected. David McFadden and colleagues at the Mayo Clinic have published “Symptoms COVID 19 Positive VapersContinue reading “e-cig users have more COVID-19 symptoms”
More evidence that smoking makes COVID-19 worse
Kade Patanavanich and I published a meta-analysis that concluded that a history of smoking was associated with COVID-19 disease progression in August 2020 that was based on 19 papers. We just published an update, “Smoking is associated with worse outcomes of COVID-19 particularly among younger adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis” based on 46 papers.Continue reading “More evidence that smoking makes COVID-19 worse”
Long-established science supports maintaining and expanding smokefree casinos and other environments
While all commercial gaming in Atlantic City, Michigan and Pennsylvania were temporarily smokefree for a period of time because of the COVID-19 pandemic, smoking has resumed as mask mandates have expired. They did so despite the fact that the science on secondhand smoke has been well-accepted for a long time. The casinos have been encouragedContinue reading “Long-established science supports maintaining and expanding smokefree casinos and other environments”
New WHO report highlights falling cigarette use and challenges that new tobacco products pose to public health and implementation of the FCTC
On July 27, 2021 the WHO released the WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic 2021: addressing new and emerging products, its eighth such report. The good news is that it documents solid progress in reducing tobacco use. After over a century of growth, “between 2007 and 2019, smoking rates decreased from a global averageContinue reading “New WHO report highlights falling cigarette use and challenges that new tobacco products pose to public health and implementation of the FCTC”
CDC’s new mask guidance and why FDA CTP should not assume e-cigs help smokers quit in the real world
On May 13, 2021 the CDC lifted most restrictions on the use of masks for people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (two weeks after the second shot for Pfizer or Moderna and 1 week after J&J). While some people thought this was a political decision, CDC Director Walensky explained in detail that real world experience showedContinue reading “CDC’s new mask guidance and why FDA CTP should not assume e-cigs help smokers quit in the real world”
COVID-19 incidence and death correlated with vaping across states
There is a robust literature showing that e-cigarette use damages lung function and compromises immune function in the respiratory system, which makes it reasonable to expect that e-cigarette use would be associated with more COVID-19 infections and deaths. So far, there has been one study (in youth and young adults) showing increased risk of developingContinue reading “COVID-19 incidence and death correlated with vaping across states”
COVID-19 Mask Requirements as a Workers’ Rights Issue: Parallels to Smokefree Workplaces
Mike Vuolo, Brian C. Kelly, and Vincent J. Roscigno recently published an excellent essay “COVID-19 Mask Requirements as a Workers’ Rights Issue: Parallels to Smoking Bans” in American Journal of Preventive Medicine that, as the title indicates makes the case that just as society has widely embraced smokefree workplaces as a way to protect workers’Continue reading “COVID-19 Mask Requirements as a Workers’ Rights Issue: Parallels to Smokefree Workplaces”
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