Forbes: Alcohol, Drug Addicts Far More Likely to Smoke Tobacco

CJ Arlotta , Contributor – Forbes| Pharma & Healthcare Turn on the television at any point of the day to find anti-smoking commercials sprinkled throughout a sports game or nightly sitcom. As many organizations and levels of government focus efforts on eliminating tobacco use from the general population, one sub-population in particular continues to be ignored: individuals addicted to […]

Study: Teens using e-cigs much more likely to start smoking cigarettes

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 […]

USA Today: Teens find a new use for e-cigarettes: Vaping marijuana

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 […]

USA Today: A year later, CVS says stopping tobacco sales made a big difference

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 […]

Number of cigarette smokers drops to 15%: CDC

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 […]