Highly Cited

Make sure your reading list includes high-impact articles from Nicotine & Tobacco Research. Our selection celebrating the 2021 Impact Factor™* includes some of the most cited articles from 2019 and 2020.

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_{*Journal Citation Reports ™ from Clarivate, 2022}

Most cited in 2021

Engagement and 3-Month Outcomes From a Digital E-Cigarette Cessation Program in a Cohort of 27 000 Teens and Young Adults

Amanda L Graham and others

Published: 14 June 2019

The 2018 National Youth Tobacco Survey showed e-cigarette use among middle and high schoolers increased 48% and 78%, respectively, in just 1 year. 1 This coincided with rapid increases in market share of JUUL, the e-cigarette product used most by young people. 2 More than 3.6 million youth ...

Biochemical Verification of Tobacco Use and Abstinence: 2019 Update

Neal L Benowitz and others

Published: 01 October 2019

Background The changing prevalence and patterns of tobacco use, the advent of novel nicotine delivery devices, and the development of new biomarkers prompted an update of the 2002 Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) report on whether and how to apply biomarker verification for ...

COVID-19 and Smoking

Ivan Berlin and others

Published: 03 April 2020

COVID-19 is mainly a disease of the respiratory tract characterized by a severe acute respiratory syndrome; the causative agent is SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2). The virus main entrance way is through mucosal tissues: nose, mouth, upper respiratory tract, and less ...

The Relationship Between Electronic Cigarette Use and Conventional Cigarette Smoking Is Largely Attributable to Shared Risk Factors

Sooyong Kim and Arielle S Selya

Published: 04 November 2019

Introduction The growing popularity of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) among youth raises concerns about possible causal effects on conventional cigarette smoking. However, past research remains inconclusive due to heavy confounding between cigarette and e-cigarette use. This study uses ...

Smoking Is Associated With COVID-19 Progression: A Meta-analysis

Roengrudee Patanavanich and Stanton A Glantz

Published: 11 May 2020

Introduction Smoking depresses pulmonary immune function and is a risk factor contracting other infectious diseases and more serious outcomes among people who become infected. This paper presents a meta-analysis of the association between smoking and progression of the infectious disease COVID-19. ...

Tobacco Use Patterns in Five Countries During the COVID-19 Lockdown

Derek Yach

Published: 27 May 2020

In their recent piece, Klemperer et al. 1 explore how motivations to quit combustible and electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) changed in response to concerns about increased risk of infection by the novel coronavirus. We offer complimentary findings from our online survey, which was conducted during ...

Smoking Prevalence and COVID-19 in Europe

Panagiotis Tsigaris and Jaime A Teixeira da Silva

Published: 01 July 2020

Introduction This ecological study investigates the association between smoking prevalence and COVID-19 occurrence and mortality in 38 European nations as of May 30, 2020. Methods Data were collected from Our World in Data. Regression analysis was conducted to adjust for potential confounding ...

Change in Tobacco and Electronic Cigarette Use and Motivation to Quit in Response to COVID-19

Elias M Klemperer and others

Published: 28 April 2020

Participants reported a mean concern about COVID-19 of 7.9 (SD = 2.7) for their own health and 8.4 (SD = 2.4) for the health of others (0 = Not at all to 10 = Extremely). They reported similar and positively correlated ( r s = 0.69, p < .001) concerns that TC smoking (mean = 6.6; SD = 2.6) ...

Impact of Smoking Status on Disease Severity and Mortality of Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Antonios Karanasos and others

Published: 20 June 2020

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has raised concern regarding risk factors associated with disease severity and case fatality. In this context, the association of smoking with severity and mortality of COVID-19 infection remains controversial. 1 We conducted this systematic review and meta-analysis ...

Electronic Cigarette Use and Cigarette Abstinence Over 2 Years Among U.S. Smokers in the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study

Sara Kalkhoran and others

Published: 11 July 2019

Introduction Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) could benefit public health if they help current smokers to stop smoking long term, but evidence that they do so is limited. We aimed to determine the association between e-cigarette use and subsequent smoking cessation in a nationally ...