[Society. Why ban cigarette filters?].

WHY BAN CIGARETTE FILTERS? Tobacco consumption in the form of cigarettes is still perceived as being so ordinary that its result, the production of cigarette ends and their disposal, has long been invisible and overlooked. A cigarette end is composed of two parts: a remnant of unsmoked tobacco and a single-use plastic filter made of cellulose acetate. These two components are saturated with the many toxic products generated by cigarette combustion.

[Tobacco industry strategies to attract new and young smokers].

"Tobacco industry strategies to attract new and young smokers .Tobacco consumption, the paradigm of an industrial pandemic, has been declining in recent years around the world, following implementation of the recommendations of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). To survive, the four transnational companies that control the market must adapt their strategy, which they do by shifting from the tobacco trade to the wider nicotine trade through the promotion of new products (electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco products).

["Nicotine industry: risk reduction,an exclusively financial objective"].

Nicotine industry: harm reduction, an exclusively financial objective The knowledge of tobacco smoking health effects, combined with the implementation of measures efficient on its use, leads to tobacco sale reduction with tobacco industry financial losses that, in order to survive, has to recruit new young consumers, and maintain current smokers' use. The industry promotes a new way for tobacco use that, according to it, would reduce harm: heat-not-burn tobacco. But, there is currently no independent scientific proof for such a harm reduction.

[Preventing tobacco sales to minors].

Preventing tobacco sales to minors. Since 2009, selling tobacco products in France to minors less than 18 years of age is forbidden by law, but this law is poorly enforced even though tobacco use mainly begins at adolescence. The aim of this study was to identify measures implemented by foreign countries leading to a better enforcement of tobacco sale ban to minors.

[Predictive factors for skeletal-related events in lung cancer].

Introduction: Skeletal-related events (SRE) are common in patients with bone metastatic lung cancer and have a negative impact on quality of life and survival. The objective of this study is to identify predictive factors for SRE occurrence among this population.

Methods: We conducted a 3-year retrospective study including 100 lung cancer patients with bone metastasis.