For years, American smokers have been spared the unpleasant images of gangrene infected feet, swollen tongues overtaken by cancerous tumors and blackened lungs that are often plastered onto packs of cigarettes sold around the world. But that momentary reprieve before lighting up may only last a few more years
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To Help Smokers Quit, Pay ThemJuly 17, 2019 |
Paying people to stop smoking is a very effective method of getting them to quit, a large review of studies has found
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The FDA’s Mango-Flavored Trolley ProblemNovember 12, 2018 |
Can the agency simultaneously push e-cigarettes away from eager teens and toward longtime smokers who might benefit from them?
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Did Juul Lure Teenagers and Get ‘Customers for Life’?August 27, 2018 |
The e-cigarette company says it never sought teenage users, but the F.D.A. is investigating whether Juul intentionally marketed its devices to youth
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More US Teens Say ‘No’ to Smoking and DrinkingJuly 20, 2018 |
The results add to evidence demonstrating the success of public health efforts to curb teen smoking and drinking, said Brendan Saloner, a researcher at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and Bloomberg School of Public Health
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The FDA’s avant-garde new tobacco policy, explained
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Fitzgerald’s depature came less than a full day after Politico revealed she had bought stock in a tobacco company a day after taking her job
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No Surgery for Smokers or the ObeseNovember 1, 2017 |
Policy in UK stirs debate. One local health committee in the UK has announced a controversial policy “to support patients whose health is at risk from smoking or being very overweight.”
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