TackSHS

Tackling secondhand tobacco smoke and e-cigarette emissions: exposure assessment, novel interventions, impact on lung diseases and economic burden in diverse European populations.

TackSHS is a new research project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme. TackSHS aims to improve our understanding of second-hand tobacco smoke and e-cigarette emissions and find ways of tackling the health burden caused by exposure to these aerosols.

This four year project brings together leading European research centres to work in partnership on a comprehensive and integrated approach to generate significant step-change beyond the current state-of-the-art in understanding second-hand tobacco smoke and electronic cigarette aerosols.

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New study on the effectiveness of e-cigarette use for smoking cessation

New study on the effectiveness of e-cigarette use for smoking cessation

TackSHS partner and WP9 Principal Investigator Giuseppe Gorini from the Italian Cancer Research & Prevention Institute (ISPO) has recently co-authored a study exploring electronic cigarette use as an aid to smoking cessation and compared abstinence rates for different quitting methods in a representative sample of the Italian population. In the 2014–2015 PASSI survey, the ongoing Italian behavioural risk factor surveillance …

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TackSHS results presented at the Italian Health Institute on World No Tobacco Day 2017

TackSHS results presented at the Italian Health Institute on World No ...

Every year, on the occasion of the WHO World No Tobacco Day, the Italian Health Institute (Istituto Superiore di Sanità) organizes a press conference in Rome with the aim of updating the Italian population on the monitoring of tobacco use and the adoption of tobacco control strategies in Italy. At the press conference held in May …

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Editorial: Smoking cessation and COPD: further evidence is more necessary than ever

Editorial: Smoking cessation and COPD: further evidence is more necessary than ...

In this editorial, published in the European Respiratory Journal (2017) Lucy Wood, Jennifer K. Quint and TackSHS researcher Joan B. Soriano, highlight the need for further research on the ties between lung function change over time and smoking status. The study “Improved outcomes in ex-smokers with COPD: a UK primary care observational cohort study” (2017) …

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