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Biden will take aim at smoking in his State of the Union speech as part of his ‘cancer moonshot’

Biden will announce plans to accelerate progress in lowering cancer deaths. That includes the biggest, preventable driver of them: smoking. His plans come as conservatives decry a "war on cigarettes" and Tucker Carlson claims nicotine "frees your mind." During his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Joe Biden will kindly thank...

How New Tobacco Control Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on U.S. Cancer

This interactive examines how nationwide bans on menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, as proposed by the Biden administration on April 28, 2022, could help shrink the racial gap on U.S. lung cancer death rates. During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden promised that his administration would make a “historic effort” to reduce long-running racial inequities...

Biden administration moves to restrict nicotine levels in tobacco products

The Biden administration signaled Tuesday that it will develop a proposed rule to establish a maximum nicotine level in cigarettes and other tobacco products that will essentially lower the amount of nicotine in products available in the US. It is a step that no other administration has taken before and is one public health experts say...

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