The Brief Addiction Science Information Source (BASIS)

ASHES, Vol. 16(10) - Are video games another marketing tool for the tobacco industry?

This week, ASHES reviews a qualitative study by Patricia McDaniel and Susan Forsyth that explored the tobacco industry’s use of video games as marketing and promotional tools throughout the years. Read more →

ASHES, Vol. 16(9) - Examining the link between adolescent marijuana use and cigarette smoking in adulthood

This week, ASHES reviews a 2019 study by Trang Nguyen and colleagues that examined how marijuana use during adolescence might predict future cigarette smoking in adulthood. Read more →

ASHES, Vol. 16(8) - All the cool kids are doing it: The relationship between ADHD symptoms, tobacco use and social perceptions of tobacco use during the transition to college

This week, ASHES reviews an article by Melissa Dvorsky and colleagues that looks at how ADHD symptoms during senior year of high school are related to tobacco use and maladaptive social perceptions of tobacco use during the transition to college. Read more →

ASHES, Vol. 16(7) – Weight gain from quitting smoking can be avoided— if paired with other healthy lifestyle changes

This week, ASHES reviews a study by Priyanka Jain and colleagues that examined whether committing to exercise and a healthy diet can eliminate the weight gain that often follows from quitting smoking. Read more →

ASHES, Vol. 16(6) - Tobacco use screening and treatment among psychiatric patients: What factors influence who gets screened during outpatient visits?

This week, as part of our Special Series on Race and Addiction, ASHES reviews a study by Erin Rogers and Christina Wysota that documented racial disparities in physician screening for tobacco use. Read more →

ASHES, Vol. 16(5) - Inside the mind of a teenager: Misconceptions of the nicotine strength in JUULs among high school students

This week, ASHES reviews an article by Meghan Morean and her colleagues looking at adolescents' perception of nicotine strength in JUUL’s, and whether user status influences these perceptions. Read more →

ASHES, Vol. 16(4) - Statewide bans on public vaping predict reduced e-cigarette use in older adults, but not young adults

This week, ASHES reviews a study by Boram Lee and colleagues that examined the relationship between statewide public vaping bans and rates of e-cigarette use. Read more →

ASHES, Vol. 16(3) - Videogames and vaping: Can one popular phenomenon be used to prevent another?

This week, as part of our Special Series on Community Approaches to Addiction, ASHES reviews a study that investigates the effectiveness of a web-based videogame prevention intervention on adolescents’ beliefs and knowledge of e-cigarette use and vaping. Read more →

ASHES, Vol. 16(2) - E-cigarettes: Revisiting the Gateway Hypothesis

This week, as part of our Special Series on Theories of Addiction, ASHES explores the history of the gateway hypothesis of substance use and addiction, and its application to current e-cigarette trends. Read more →

ASHES, Vol. 16(1) - The effectiveness of graphic images on tobacco health warning labels in changing smoking attitudes and behaviors

Today’s review is part of our month-long special series, Open Science Practices in Addiction Research. During this special series, The BASIS features recent publications that have used contemporary open science practices. Text-only health warnings have appeared on cigarettes for over 35 years in the United States. Despite these warnings, smoking still causes over 480,000 deaths each year in the United States. To reduce smoking and its associated health impacts, the United States Food and Drug Association recently proposed the inclusion of 13 different graphic warning images with accompanying text that depict some of the negative health consequences of smoking on... Read more →