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...
USA: Quit & Thrive Challenge: Community-Derived Solutions to Reduce Menthol Cigarette Smoking
ODP and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are sponsoring the Quit & Thrive Challenge: Community-Derived Solutions to Reduce Menthol Cigarette Smoking to enhance the evidence base of interventions to help individuals from populations experiencing health disparities quit smoking, with a specific emphasis on menthol cigarettes. This Challenge encourages submissions from local and...
Call for Expression of Interest
I- BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION An increasing number of non-profit organizations and financial partners have recognized the need for, and have invested in, building their internal capacity to strengthen their organizational effectiveness. Since its creation in 2008, the African Tobacco Control Alliance (ATCA) is dedicated to promote the health and the wellbeing of the African people, through...
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
The African Tobacco Control Alliance (ATCA) is a pan-African non-profit organization that serves as a platform for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in tobacco control and the promotion of public health in Africa. Its Executive Secretariat is based in Lomé, Togo, and is staffed by people who ensure the operational and administrative...
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
The African Tobacco Control Alliance (ATCA) is a pan-African non-profit organization that serves as a platform for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in tobacco control and the promotion of public health in Africa. Its Executive Secretariat is based in Lomé, Togo, and is staffed by people who ensure the operational and administrative...