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...
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...
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...
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...
GENEVA — The World Health Organization and STOP, a global tobacco industry watchdog, warn the tobacco industry is using a variety of manipulative tactics to hook a new generation of young people into becoming users of their addictive, toxic tobacco and nicotine products for life. “The terrible truth is that eight million people every year...
A decades-long decline in smoking in England has nearly ground to a halt since the pandemic, a study suggests. The rate of decline slowed from 5.2% in the years before the pandemic to just 0.3% between April 2020 and August 2022, according to the research. The lead researcher said it was likely more young people had taken...
The French parliament has voted unanimously to ban single-use e-cigarettes, known locally as "puffs", amid health and environmental concerns. It still needs backing from France's Senate and clearance from the EU Commission before it becomes law. If both approve the bill, the government said it hopes the ban will be effective by September 2024. Several other countries...
Urgent action is needed to control e-cigarettes to protect children, as well as non-smokers and minimize health harms to the population. E-cigarettes as consumer products are not shown to be effective for quitting tobacco use at the population level. Instead, alarming evidence has emerged on adverse population health effects. E-cigarettes have been allowed on the...
China, the world’s largest tobacco producer and consumer, estimated to contribute around 20 per cent of the global cost Researcher calls for immediate ban on cigarette butts, describing them as a ‘problematic and avoidable single-use plastic’ Plastic pollution from cigarette butts and packaging costs an estimated US$26 billion a year worldwide in terms of...
The country has just introduced a ban on smoking in some public areas as part of a comprehensive anti-tobacco plan. France has announced it is banning smoking on beaches as part of a wider campaign to help people quit. By the first half of 2024, the four-year 'plan anti-tabac' will also see lighting up prohibited outside...
