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Quach NE, et al. Daily or Nondaily Vaping and Smoking Cessation Among Smokers. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Mar 3;8(3):e250089. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.0089. PMID: 40042845; PMCID: PMC11883493.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40042845/

This three-year longitudinal study found that “neither daily nor nondaily vaping was associated with increased smoking cessation, and each was associated with reduced tobacco abstinence.”

TRC Research Commentary

Repace JL. The Impact of Secondhand Smoke on Pub Workers: A 2002 Consultation for the Irish Office of Tobacco Control. Tobacco Use Insights. 14 March 2025;18. doi:10.1177/1179173X251319860

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1179173X251319860

James Repace recounts the secondhand smoke research he did in consultation with the Irish Office of Tobacco Control based on his previous 46 peer-reviewed papers on the hazard, exposure, dose, risk, and control of secondhand smoke by 1980. He was able to estimate that the working-lifetime risk of mortality from workplace secondhand smoke exposure would produce an estimated 150 deaths per year among the ∼28,000 full-time Irish pub workers. He presented this information to the Health Minister and Members of Parliament, which rebutted bogus tobacco industry assertions that ventilation could control secondhand smoke, fired up the effort championed by Health Minister Micheál Martin to ban smoking in pubs, and helped to protect pub workers from being forced to trade their health for a pay cheque.

Comment: Repace’s work illustrates the ability to provide expertise in support of secondhand smoke prohibitions that save the lives of workers and exposed non-smokers. His consultation also resulted in a research presentation at the Indoor Air 2002 Conference in California, “Passive smoking exposure and risk for Irish bar staff.” Stephen Hamann