Tobacco Health Risk

Dear Colleagues,

We now know much, if not everything, about the health effects of active as well as passive smoking. However, one unsolved problem still remains in this field, which requires further research: the health effects of the use of e-cigarettes and other vaporized nicotine products. The common belief is that tobacco smoking epidemic should be limited as the sole method for avoiding the risks resulting from tobacco use. Therefore, the effectiveness of tobacco control strategies should be examined, including all legislative actions and campaigns supporting such actions. Two strategies are particularly important: firstly, aiming at prevention of smoking initiation (including identification of predictors of tobacco smoking and e-cigarette use susceptibility and effectiveness of relevant strategies); secondly, aiming at overcoming the addiction by those who smoke (effectiveness of various medications, psychotherapeutic methods, etc.). According to the World Health Organization (WHO), quitting tobacco has an immediate impact on health outcomes supporting the provision of strong cessation services.

Epidemiological studies are necessary on the popularity of active and passive smoking and using unconventional nicotine-containing products, with particular emphasis on indicating all the groups that should be reached with relevant programs. Finally, a number of other activities are crucial with regard to this issue: assessment of the health effects of smoking; examination of socio-cultural and economic determinants of health behaviors (associated with tobacco use) of the selected social groups, and their reactivity to pro-health activities; and evaluation of the effectiveness of the implemented legislation (especially against exposure to tobacco) and direct (knowledge) and long-term (beliefs, behaviors) effects of undertaken campaigns, information, and/or educational processes.

This Special Issue aims to present the diversity and progress of research in the field of tobacco health risk and tobacco control. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: tobacco health risks; tobacco consumption monitoring; e-cigarettes use health risk, smoking cessation; tobacco control.

Prof. Dorota Kaleta
Prof. Kinga Polanska
Dr. Joanna Jurewicz
Guest Editors

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