CEASE: A Clinical and Community Effort Against Secondhand Smoke Exposure

11/18/2022

A recent study by the CEASE team and colleagues in San Francisco suggests that e-cigarette users are initiating use at younger ages, and a higher percentage of adolescents are using them within 5 minutes of waking.

07/28/2022

CEASE study team members from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Brian Jenssen, MD, MSHP & Shannon Kelleher, MPH, discuss the benefits of using pediatric visits as an opportunity to promote smoking cessation amongst parents in this Penn Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics blog post. By utilizing motivational messages informed by behavioral science and modifying the child's electronic health record to automatically connect parents to smoking cessation treatments, these researchers are designing a powerful CEASE intervention to help more parents quit smoking.

This blog explores the ways in which pediatric settings can be used to support the health of parents and children by combatting to***co use.

05/04/2022

San Diego Council passed the SAAFE Act last week, which will ban the sale of flavored to***co products in the city starting January 1st, 2023. This op-ed from Times of San Diego highlights research from CEASE’s Jonathan Winickoff, MD, who disputed claims that the ordinance would lead teens to smoke traditional ci******es instead.

If the City Council approves the SAAFE Act, an end to the sale of addictive flavored to***co products in San Diego will be within reach. That will be a relief for school districts, youth-serving organizations, health practitioners, and parents.

04/29/2022

Exciting news from the FDA––they’ve proposed a nationwide ban on menthol ci******es and flavored ci**rs! This landmark legislation could both discourage new smokers and help adult smokers quit.

The US Food and Drug Administration proposed on Thursday a rule to ban menthol ci******es and flavored ci**rs.

04/14/2022

CEASE’s Jonathan Winickoff, MD and his team refuted a study from San Francisco claiming that e-cigarette flavor bans would lead to more teens smoking traditional ci******es. They found out that the data were collected before enforcement of the San Francisco flavor ban started, invalidating the result.

Although a study of San Francisco reported youth smoking increasing following a ban on flavored to***co sales in that city, a closer analysis indicates data on youth smoking were collected before the ban was enforced. The research team also examined data from Oakland, California, after a flavor ban....