Tobacco control group promoting smoke-free apartments

By Bismarck Tribune BISMARCK, N.D. _ The North Dakota Center for Tobacco Prevention and Control Policy is promoting smoke-free apartments. The center has launched an education campaign encouraging smoke-free housing policies. “In North Dakota, 24 percent of residents live in apartments and many of these residents continue to be exposed to secondhand smoke,” Executive Director Jeanne […]

E-Cigarette Poisoning on the Rise, CDC Says

By Neha Sharma, DO, ABC News They’re supposedly a safer alternative to conventional cigarettes. But electronic cigarettes may actually pose a serious danger to others in your home — particularly children. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned in report released today that the number of phone calls to U.S. poison control centers […]

Study: Tobacco use declines on prime-time TV dramas

By Saba Hamedy, Los Angeles Times Prime-time television dramas are less smoke friendly than they were in the 1950s. According to a study published online in the journal Tobacco Control on Thursday, there has been a dramatic decline in visibility of tobacco products on prime-time U.S. broadcast television. Researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center of […]

Changes to tobacco ordinance passed

The West Fargo Pioneer The Commission passed the second reading of changes to its tobacco ordinance to include electronic cigarettes at its Monday meeting. The City’s ordinance now requires a tobacco license for anyone wishing to sell electronic cigarettes along with regular tobacco products and it prohibits the sale of electronic cigarettes to anyone under […]

Do e-cigarettes help smokers quit?

By Deborah Kotz  | THE BOSTON GLOBE STAFF Electronic cigarettes are certainly trendy — look no further than the Vapefest in the nation’s capital last week — but whether inhaling nicotine vapors actually helps smokers quit traditional cigarettes remains a subject of fierce debate. A new study is bound to add fuel to the fire. Researchers followed nearly […]