JNCI Monographs

This released Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI) Monographs expands the 2024 Surgeon General's report on tobacco-related disparities: https://academic.oup.com/jncimono/issue/2025/70
 

Advocacy in action: article on an advocacy-research model for tobacco control

This article describes a model partnership framework for guiding collaborations between the tobacco control researchers at the American Cancer Society (ACS) and advocates at the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN): https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/33/e2/e270

A recently published systematic review evaluated potential harms from e-cigarettes in young people found consistent associations between vaping and subsequent smoking, marijuana use, alcohol use, asthma, cough, injuries and mental health outcomes. Read the full article here: https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2025/08/17/tc-2024-059219

Action on Smoking & Health's Lobbyist Tracker

Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) released the 4th edition of the U.S. Tobacco Industry Lobbyist and Lobbying Firm Registration Tracker. Find details here: 

https://ash.org/tobacco-money/

https://ash.org/tobacco-money/california/

American Lung Association's State of Tobacco Control Report

The American Lung Association's State of Tobacco Control report highlights California's State Grade on tobacco cessation and policies with 2025 California Local Grades on policies by county/cities.

The California Quits Together report features 6 goals from a summit of 60 experts convened by the California Tobacco Control Program in September 2020.  The 6 goals to accelerate quitting and to achieve health equity include:

1. Motivate Medi-Cal managed care plans to prioritize tobacco cessation
2. Make tobacco screening and treatment a standard of care in health care systems
3. Create a norm of tobacco recovery in behavioral health systems
4. Build capacity for tobacco cessation in other community settings
5. Use media resources to further accelerate quitting behaviors
6. Optimize surveillance of tobacco cessation

The California Department of Health Care Services is funded by 80% of the tobacco tax from Proposition 56 for specific programs, including the Family Planning, Access, Care and Treatment program, women's health services, dental and physician services, developmental and trauma screenings, non-emergency medical transportation, and more.

The Food and Drug Administration's Center for Tobacco Products has information about FDA's regulatory authority over the sales, distribution, and health claims or warnings over tobacco products, including vapes and "non-tobacco nicotine" (synthetics).  The FDA has information about its rules, regulations, and guidance documents.  The FDA also accepts comments on tobacco regulatory activities.

CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Tobacco Product Use Among Adults — United States, 2017–2023