Today, CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health, in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute, released the following tobacco-related brief in the journal Preventing Chronic Disease. Characteristics and Correlates of Recent Successful Cessation Among Adult Cigarette Smokers, United States, 2018 This study assessed characteristics and correlates of recent successful cessation (quitting smoking for 6 months or […]

Effects of E-Cigarette Use on Cigarette Smoking Among U.S. Youth, 2004-2018 This study sought to determine if the declining trend in U.S. youth cigarette smoking changed after e-cigarettes were introduced, and if youth e-cigarette users would have been likely to smoke cigarettes based on psychosocial and demographic predictors of smoking.  The introduction of e-cigarettes was […]

On average, between 2010 and 2017, 1 out of 4 U.S. adults with active epilepsy smoked cigarettes compared to about 1 out of 6 U.S. adults without epilepsy.  Between 2010-2017, cigarette smoking did not decrease among adults with active epilepsy, as it did among adults without epilepsy.  In addition to health and social service providers, […]