Over two million high school students use e-cigarettes, the CDC reports. Dorian Fuhrman, co-founder of PAVe, says no amount of nicotine is safe. "JUUL created the youth vaping epidemic," Fuhrman said. Vaping has taken hold of children and teens, over two million of whom partake in the habit, according to the Centers for Disease...
The US Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it is proposing new requirements for tobacco companies that would help prevent contamination of their products and set some standards for the way they make and package products so regulators and consumers will know precisely what is in them. The proposed rules would apply to all FDA-regulated bulk...
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...
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...
More than half of US adults support ending the sale of all tobacco products, according to a new study led by researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and nearly two-thirds said they support banning menthol cigarette sales. The poll, published Thursday in the journal Preventing Chronic Disease, included 6,455 US adults surveyed...
The US Food and Drug Administration issued marketing denial orders for two menthol e-cigarette products marketed by R.J. Reynolds Vapor Company. The agency said Tuesday that Vuse Vibe Tank Menthol 3.0% and the Vuse Ciro Cartridge Menthol 1.5% should not be marketed or distributed. “The applications for these products did not present sufficient scientific evidence to show...
WASHINGTON D.C. — Across the country, many states still have work to do to prevent tobacco use, according to a new nationwide report. The American Lung Association reviews statewide policies every year and then grades which areas have the best and worst policies. It shows states like California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Washington D.C. have some of the best policies....
Despite tobacco industry claims, a new study found that banning menthol-flavored cigarettes did not lead to more people purchasing illicit smokes. Researchers at the University of Waterloo surveyed smokers to study the impact of a menthol cigarette ban in Canada. Smokers of both menthol and non-menthol cigarettes were surveyed before and after Canada's ban, and...
The cigarette tax in New York would increase by $1 and ban all flavored tobacco products would be in place under a proposal announced Tuesday by Gov. Kathy Hochul in her State of the State address. The proposal is meant to create a "tobacco free generation" as fewer and fewer younger people use cigarettes, but...
RJ Reynolds and other firms sought the high court’s intervention to keep the ban from taking effect by 21 December. The supreme court has upheld California’s ban on flavored tobacco products, thwarting an effort by tobacco companies to stop it from being enforced. The ban was passed overwhelmingly by voters in the November midterm elections, but...
