Social Risk Factors Associated With Microbial Keratitis.

Purpose: The objective of this study was to identify social risk factors (SRFs) that affect microbial keratitis (MK) care using the Penchansky-Thomas (P-T) health care access framework.

Methods: This combined retrospective and prospective cohort study recruited participants with newly diagnosed MK at an academic medical center. Participant demographic information and SRFs were collected using in-person interviews and chart review.

Four hundred and sixty brands of e-cigarettes and counting: implications for product regulation.

Introduction: E-cigarettes are largely unregulated and internet sales are substantial. This study examines how the online market for e-cigarettes has changed over time: in product design and in marketing messages appearing on websites.

Methods: Comprehensive internet searches of English-language websites from May-August 2012 and December 2013-January 2014 identified brands, models, flavours, nicotine strengths, ingredients and product claims.

The use and perception of electronic cigarettes and snus among the U.S. population.

Background: E-cigarettes have generated controversy in the tobacco control field similar to that of Swedish snus, which came to the U.S. market six years earlier.

Interventions to increase smoking cessation at the population level: how much progress has been made in the last two decades?

This paper reviews the literature on smoking cessation interventions, with a focus on the last 20 years (1991 to 2010). These two decades witnessed major development in a wide range of cessation interventions, from pharmacotherapy to tobacco price increases. It was expected that these interventions would work conjointly to increase the cessation rate on the population level.