Availability of Flavor Capsule Cigarettes at Points of Sale in Quito, Ecuador: Attila Pohlmann, PhD
About the Event Hosted by the Institute for Global Tobacco Control (IGTC), the monthly Innovations in Tobacco Control lecture series welcomes key researchers and experts to share ideas, present their work, and spark discussion. Presented via Zoom, this month’s event welcomes Attila Pohlmann, PhD, for a lecture entitled “Availability of Flavor Capsule Cigarettes at Points...
USA: Grandmother raises alarm over vaping at middle school
BY: JT Fetch SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (WRGB) — A concerned grandmother is speaking out after she says her granddaughter, an eighth grader at Oneida Middle School, returned home with a vaping device she told her she purchased from "the drug dealer" at school. The woman, identified only as Stacy, expressed her worries not only about the potential dangers of...
USA: FDA proposes reducing nicotine in cigarettes to nonaddictive levels
BY: Lara Bryn NEW YORK — The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed a groundbreaking plan to reduce the amount of nicotine in cigarettes to a minimally or nonaddictive level. Experts are comparing the potential impact of this change to the lifesaving introduction of seatbelts in cars. Dr. Andrew Hyland, director of the New York...
USA: Nicotine Pouches: A Public Health Puzzle With Missing Pieces
BY: Francis Allan L. Angelo Oral nicotine pouches (ONPs), sleek, discreet, and often flavored, are rapidly gaining traction in the US market, especially among young adults. Marketed as “tobacco-free,” these pouches deliver nicotine via the oral mucosa, bypassing the combustion associated with traditional tobacco products like cigarettes. While preliminary research suggests that ONPs may present fewer health...
U.S. could soon require graphic warnings on cigarette packages, but doctors still face uphill battle
BY: Caroline Foreback BALTIMORE -- The United States is one step closer to joining 138 countries where graphic warnings on cigarette packages are required, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. However, with the wide range of nicotine products on the market, and alarming trends of e-cigarette use in young people, public...
