Use of tobacco products in any form by youths is unsafe, says CDC. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- About 2.8 million U.S. middle and high school students used tobacco products in 2023, according to a report released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday. E-cigarettes remained the most commonly used...
A new government report finds that federal regulators need to do more to help in the battle to keep kids and teens off tobacco. Among the report's findings were that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration needs to get tough on retailers selling tobacco to youth and should improve its oversight of online retailers. The FDA should also...
New American Heart Association scientific statement outlines current science on health effects of e-cigarette use, calls for more research on long-term impact Statement Highlights: The number of people who use electronic nicotine delivery systems, typically referred to as e-cigarettes, has grown exponentially, especially among youth and young adults. E-cigarette use more than doubled from 2017...
Under federal court order, tobacco companies must post health risk warning signs in US retail stores selling cigarettes from 1 July. Point-of-sale signs advising on smoking health risks will be installed near tobacco displays in 220,000 retail stores across the US between 1 July and 30 September. These signs must be displayed until 30 June 2025. The...
he idea seems simple enough. Preserve all the rituals of smoking: Light up a cigarette, inhale the smoke, including the nasty stuff that can kill you, and exhale. But remove most of the nicotine, the chemical that makes tobacco so darn hard to quit, to help smokers smoke less. The Food and Drug Administration has been contemplating...
Researchers say the sales were primarily driven by fruit and candy flavors. Monthly e-cigarette sales skyrocketed during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Between January 2020 and December 2022, monthly unit sales increased by 46.6%, from 15.5 million units...
The percentage of adults who smoked cigarettes in the United States fell to a historic low last year, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found. However, e-cigarettes are becoming even more popular. About 11% of adults told the CDC last year that they were current cigarette smokers, according to the latest preliminary data...
Last year, the Food and Drug Administration proposed a ban on menthol flavored cigarettes, a product historically marketed to Black people. Now health advocates are urging the FDA to move forward. GPB’s Ellen Eldridge has more. Decades have gone by since the first data indicated that smoking cigarettes is hazardous to one's health and nicotine...
The 2023 state legislative year is underway and there are several state legislatures that have bills to raise cigarette, tobacco and vape taxes and ban flavored tobacco products. During this legislative cycle many states have introduced bills to increase cigarette/OTP and vapor taxes. So far, a total of 23 states have introduced legislation in 2023. These states include Alaska, Georgia, Hawaii,...
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...
