By Stuart Pfeifer They have the shape, feel and nicotine of tobacco cigarettes, but e-cigarettes should not be regulated like tobacco products, makers of the popular new product say. The Smoke Free Alternatives Trade Assn., an industry group, is lobbying to avoid Food and Drug Administration regulation under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. “This […]
By Wendy Koch , USA TODAY Two of every five youth smokers use cigarettes or look-alike cigars that are flavored, says a U.S. government report Tuesday that’s intensifying the call for federal control of all tobacco products including electronic cigarettes. Of middle-school and high-school students who currently smoke, 42.4% reported using menthol cigarettes or flavored little […]
By Ross P. Lanzafame and Harold P. Wimmer – Redwood Times Electronic cigarette use among middle school children has doubled in just one year. Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that e-cigarette use also doubled among high school students in one year, and that one in 10 high school students have […]
Melissa Dahl, NBC News They look like cigarettes, and they’re just as harmful as cigarettes — but “little cigars” are much cheaper, and they come in flavors like chocolate or candy apple, which makes them very attractive to kids, experts say. Now, for the first time, kids’ use of flavored little cigars has been tracked […]
By Cheryl K. Chumley – The Washington Times Smoke ‘em if you’ve got ‘em — and then hurry and quit, because Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is planning a massive tax increase on cigarettes. His proposed 75-cent increase would bring a pack of cigarettes in the Windy City to $7.42 a pack, the highest price in the nation, Fox News reported. But the […]
By: Ross P. Lanzafame, American Lung Association National Board Chair Harold Wimmer, American Lung Association National President and CEO E-cigarette use among middle school children has doubled in just one year. Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that e-cigarette use also doubled among high school students in one year, and […]
By KEVIN O’HANLON / Lincoln Journal Star A majority of Nebraska voters favor increasing the state’s cigarette tax and using the money to provide property tax relief and smoking-cessation programs, according to a poll released Friday. “Nebraskans have made it clear they are ready for a tobacco tax increase,” said David Holmquist of the American […]
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say high-priced cigarettes and smoke-free homes effectively reduce smoking behaviors among low-income individuals – a demographic in which tobacco use has remained comparatively high. Writing in the October 17, 2013 issue of theAmerican Journal of Public Health, principal investigator John P. Pierce, PhD, professor […]
by NPR STAFF Fifteen years after tobacco companies agreed to pay billions of dollars in fines in what is still the largest civil litigation settlement in U.S. history, it’s unclear how state governments are using much of that money. So far tobacco companies have paid more than $100 billion to state governments as part of the […]
(CBS ATLANTA) – Light smokers are not safe from the large life expectancy cuts that come from mild cigarette use. A new tracking study of health and smoking levels from 200,000 people finds that not only does smoking cut 10 years from a smoker’s life expectancy, but that even mild smokers will double their risk of […]