By: REUTERS/SUSANA VERA Smoking hookah can be addictive and harmful, though many dabblers may not realize the dangers, according to a new review. “The cooled and sweetened flavor of hookah tobacco makes it more enticing to kids and they falsely believe it’s less harmful,” Tracey E. Barnett from the University of Florida in Gainesville told Reuters […]
DENVER (AP) – Two Western states with some of the nation’s lowest smoking rates are considering cracking down even more by raising the tobacco age to 21. Utah and Colorado lawmakers both voted favorably on proposals Thursday to treat tobacco like alcohol and take it away from 18- to 20-year-olds, a move inspired by new […]
By SABRINA TAVERNISE, The New York Times Dr. Michael Siegel, a hard-charging public health researcher at Boston University, argues that e-cigarettes could be the beginning of the end of smoking in America. He sees them as a disruptive innovation that could make cigarettes obsolete, like the computer did to the typewriter. But his former teacher and […]
FDA NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: Feb. 21, 2014 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued orders today to stop the further sale and distribution of four tobacco products currently on the market. The action marks the first time the FDA has used its authority under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act to order […]
By Jenny Lei Bolario Electronic-cigarettes are often billed as a safe way for smokers trying to kick their habit. But it’s not just smokers who are getting their fix this way. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1 in 5 middle schoolers who tried one say they’ve never smoked a cigarette. And between […]
By: Tiffany Huertas PANAMA CITY- Since smoking is being banned in so many places, e-cigarettes are all the rage for people who still want to smoke in public. The battery-powered devices provide doses of nicotine and other additives to the user in an aerosol. They don’t emit the smoke or the smell that non-smokers complain about. That’s […]
By LeAnn Eckroth, Bismarck Tribune BISMARCK, N.D. –The Bismarck Public Library board of directors will consider a change to its policy to specify patrons cannot use e-cigarettes in the library. The topic will be discussed at its noon meeting Feb. 27 at the library. Mary Jane Schmaltz, library director, said e-cigarettes are already banned in public […]
Written by: Kathleen Sebelius For Press-Gazette Media Here’s a sobering statistic about the tobacco epidemic — a battle many Americans think is already won: If we continue at current smoking rates, 5.6 million children alive today will ultimately die prematurely from smoking. That’s one in 13 kids gone too early due to an entirely preventable cause. […]
BY JOHN REID BLACKWELL Richmond Times-Dispatch U.S. tobacco giant Altria Group Inc. is pushing more aggressively into the electronic cigarette market, with plans to expand sales of its first e-cigarette brand nationally in the next few months. Henrico County-based Altria, the parent company of cigarette maker Philip Morris USA, said Wednesday that it plans to […]
By LeAnn Eckroth, Bismarck Tribune MANDAN, N.D. –The Mandan City Commission on Tuesday approved the first reading of an ordinance that bans selling e-cigarettes to minors under the age 18. The vote was 4-0. The Mandan ordinance prohibits providing or selling the products to minors, and minors cannot have or use them. E-cigarettes include any electronic […]