WASHINGTON, D.C. — New data released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show an alarming increase in e-cigarette use among middle school and high school students in the U.S. From 2011-2012, the number of students in grades 6-12 reporting having ever used an e-cigarette doubled from 3.3 percent to 6.8 percent. […]
By MICHAEL FELBERBAUM AP Tobacco Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — New statistics show that the sale of tobacco to minors in the U.S. were held near all-time lows last year under a federal-state inspection program intended to curb underage usage. The violation rate of tobacco sales to underage youth at retailers nationwide has fallen from […]
By Kyle Stock Apparently, the nicotine business never changes—with smoke or without. Big Tobacco fought government overseers for decades, but eventually traditional cigarettes became heavily regulated products. Now the Food and Drug Administration is working on a package of regulations for e-cigarettes devices, which vaporize liquid nicotine with heat, rather than burning it via tobacco […]
By Jef Feeley Ronald L. Motley, a South Carolina lawyer who spearheaded lawsuits against tobacco companies that led them to agree to pay $246 billion in the biggest civil settlement in U.S. history, has died. He was 68. He died yesterday at Roper Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina, Don Migliori, a partner in his law […]
by Inside Science News Service, Benjamin Plackett In recent years a new type of cigarette has begun to repopulate our restaurants, our subway trains and our movie theaters. It doesn’t burn tobacco, it doesn’t emit smoke and it lasts a lot longer than a traditional cigarette. It’s currently unregulated, but that may soon change, and […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Mayor’s Press Office As part of his overall campaign to curb youth smoking, Mayor Rahm Emanuel today went after the tobacco industry to curb marketing practices that target youth. This call for action comes on the heels of a cease and desist and several notices of violation issued by the City of […]
By Anthony Rivas Cigarette smoking has been on the decline for years now, but as some people turn to e-cigarettes, others turn to cigars. For a long time, regulators didn’t focus on cigars. This has allowed the market to thrive over the past few years by appealing to smokers in ways cigarettes did not — many […]
By SABRINA TAVERNISE BALTIMORE — At Everest Greenish Grocery, a brightly lit store on a faded corner of this city, nothing is more popular than a chocolate-flavored little cigar. They are displayed just above the Hershey bars along with their colorful cigarillo cousins — white grape, strawberry, pineapple and Da Bomb Blueberry. And they were […]
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Nicole Bender or Steve Weiss American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network WASHINGTON, D.C. – August 15, 2013 – A majority of states are not measuring up on legislative solutions that prevent and fight cancer, according to a new report released today by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). […]
By Cole Petrochko, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Children with asthma were more likely to be exposed to secondhand smoke than those without the disease, researchers found. From 1999 to 2010, the overall rate of exposure to secondhand smoke among children without asthma declined from 57.3% to 44.2%, but the exposure rate remained nearly constant over the […]