By Lena H. Sun, Washington Post More bad news for young people who smoke e-cigarettes. Doing so makes them much more likely to start smoking traditional cigarettes within a year than peers who don’t smoke e-cigarettes, according to a new analysis published online Tuesday and scheduled for the November issue of JAMA Pediatrics. The latest […]
Christine Rushton, USA TODAY Teenagers have discovered a new way to inhale marijuana — e-cigarette vaporizers, according to a study released Monday. About 27% of high school students who have used both marijuana and e-cigarettes reported using the devices to vaporize cannabis. Those most likely to vaporize pot with e-cigarettes included males and younger students. E-cigarettes are […]
Jayne O’Donnell, USA TODAY The decision to stop tobacco sales at all of its drugstores a year ago caused people to buy 95 million fewer packs of cigarettes in 13 states, CVS Health says in a new study out Thursday. The new study compared total sales of tobacco products at all types of stores in the 13 states […]
The number of cigarette smokers in the United States has dropped to about 15 percent of the population, its lowest point in decades, U.S. health authorities said Tuesday. “The prevalence of current cigarette smoking among U.S. adults declined from 24.7 percent in 1997 to 15.2 percent in January-March 2015,” said the report by the Centers […]
Jonathan Cohn, Senior National Correspondent, The Huffington Post Chalk up another big win for public health: The smoking rate among U.S. adults appears to have hit a new low. New survey data, which the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Tuesday morning, suggests that just 15.2 percent of American adults are now using cigarettes […]
By Dieter Holger E-cigarettes, also known as electronic cigarettes, have become a popular alternative to smoking the real deal, but the pros and cons of turning to this futuristic alternative are still under debate. Are e-cigarettes really any better than smoking a cigarette? Here are seven reasons e-cigarettes pose dangers to our health. The effects […]
Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration issued warning letters to the makers of Winston, Natural Spirit and Nat Sherman cigarettes over their “additive-free” and “natural” label claims. The agency issued the warnings to ITG Brands LLC, Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company Inc. and Sherman’s 1400 Broadway N.Y.C. Ltd. The issue […]
A proposal to raise the tobacco tax by $2 per pack of cigarettes in California was given new life Wednesday when legislation was announced as part of a special session on healthcare. Supporters say the new bill has a better chance of passing than one that stalled in the regular session because the $1.5 billion […]
By Kate Bratskeir, Food and Health Editor, The Huffington Post You hopefully wouldn’t smoke 100 cigarettes in 60 minutes — that’s five entire packs of so-called cancer sticks. If you casually dabble with hookah, however, you might not bat an eye at an hour-long smoking session. New research shows lots of young people don’t know that 100 […]
Source Newsroom: North Dakota State University Newswise — While the character Don Draper in the television show Mad Men looked for a way to first save his cigarette advertising accounts, and then to distance himself from them, a new book—“Tobacco Goes to College”—shows the power of advertising impacted would-be-smokers long before the Mad Men era. […]