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Tobacco - News Archive


Winter 2017​
  • ​Cigars and pipes tied to same risks as cigarettes.
  • Lead and other toxic metals found in e-cigarette 'vapors': study.
  • Tobacco Kills, No Matter How It's Smoked: Study.
  • How To Drive Down Smoking In Groups That Still Light Up.​
October 2017​​
  • ​Smoking cessation support less likely for cancer patients
September 2017​​
  • One e-cigarette with nicotine leads to adrenaline changes in nonsmokers' hearts
  • Smokers who quit have metabolite levels that resemble those of nonsmokers 
  • Managing negative emotions can help pregnant smokers quit
  • Two studies show links between asthma and fertility treatment, and between e-cigarette vaping in mothers and asthma in offspring
  • Smoking bans linked to drop in child hospital admissions
  • Smoking bans help kids breathe easier
August 2017​​
  • ​E-Cigs May Help Smokers Quit, But …
  • Smokers in clinical studies who say they've quit often haven't  
  • Daily Vaping Linked to Higher Cigarette Quit Rates
  • Smokers 20 percent more likely to quit when cigarettes cost $1 more
  • FDA Officials Look to Cut Cigarette Nicotine Levels
  • Is Parental Smoking Child Abuse?
  • Cancer Risk Low For Most, But Not All, E-Cigs in Modeling Study
  • FDA to launch campaign against e-cigarette use among youth
  • Exposure to toxins in e-cig vapor varies depending on scenario
June 2017​​
  • Raise the Smoking Age to 21? Most Kids Fine With That
  • ​​Teenagers’ tobacco use hits a record low, with a sharp drop in e-cigarettes
  • Cigarette Smoking's Damage Hits Your DNA
May 2017​​
  • Increasing the price of tobacco by 5% reduces consumption by 3.5%
  • ​Could 'Safer' Filtered Cigarettes Be More Deadly?
  • Smokers with low muscle mass may be likelier to die
  • Quit-smoking drug safe for lung disease patients
  • Scientists find a likely genetic driver of smoking-related heart disease
  • Young adult smokers—a hidden demographic
April 2017
  • Tobacco Firms Push Congress to Limit FDA E-Cig Oversight
  • For the Young, Cigarettes Go Better With Booze than Pot
  • Smoking to kill 200 million in China this century: WHO
  • Addictive nut's derivatives could help smokers break the nicotine habit  
  • Women smokers 13 times more likely to have a major heart attack than non-smoking peers
  • E-cigarette regulations may affect their effectiveness for smoking cessation
March 2017
  • Broad support exists for larger warnings on cigarette packs
  • New health care law would lead to more smoking, disease and tobacco industry profits
  • ​Health leaders call for more action to curb smoking in the U.S.
  • Smokers Prone to Problems after Joint Replacement: Study
  • Young people do not associate e-cigarettes with increased likelihood of smoking
  • Cancer-causing benzene found in e-cigarette vapors operated at high power
  • Few smokers receive treatment to help them quit while in the hospital
  • The shifting rationales for vaping
  • Study shows role of depression in the ongoing tobacco epidemic
February 2017
  • The shifting rationales for vaping
  • Study shows role of depression in the ongoing tobacco epidemic
  • Many Smokers With Chronic Conditions Take Up E-Cigarettes
  • Revisiting E-Cigarettes: Safe or Harmful?
  • E-cigarettes safer alternative to smoking combustible cigarettes, study confirms
  • Third hand smoke affects weight, blood cell development in mice
  • Small Study Links E-Cigarettes to Potential Heart Trouble​
January 2017
  • ​Smoking Costs World $1.4 Trillion a Year in Disease, Lost Productivity
  • ​The Global Economic Burden of Tobacco: An Interview with Dr. Mark Parascandola
  • WHO: Global Smoking Deaths to Hit 8 Million Annually by 2030 
  • Public Grows More Wary of E-Cigarettes
  • Liquid nicotine for electronic cigarettes is toxic for kids
  • Smoking while pregnant may compromise children's kidney function​
December 2016​​
  • Fewer kids visited ERs for asthma after indoor smoking bans
  • Cigar warnings: Do teens believe them?​
November 2016
  • Vapors from some flavored e-liquids contain high levels of aldehydes
  • E-cigarettes 'just as harmful as tobacco' for oral health  
  • California Voters Pass Steep Tobacco Tax Hike
  • E-Cigs Tied to More Frequent, Heavier Teen Tobacco Use
  • Graphic Cigarette Pack Labels May Cut U.S. Smoking Deaths
  • Longer Trip to Buy Cigarettes May Help Smokers Quit 
October 2016
  • ​CDC: Majority of E-Cigarette Users Still Smoke
  • Hookah smoking: Rapidly emerging threat to the health of the nation's young adults  ​
September 2016
  • Hookah smoking: Rapidly emerging threat to the health of the nation's young adults  ​
  • Secondhand Smoke More Insidious Than Thought
  • FDA Cracks Down On Online Sales Of E-Cigarettes
  • E-cigarette research: Flavorings and higher voltage increase toxicity of e-cigs
  • Tobacco industry tactics influential in e-cigarette policy
  • Do E-Cigarettes Help Smokers Quit?
  • FDA Cracks Down on Online Sales by E-Cigarette Industry
  • Young people exposed to vaping ads less likely to think occasional smoking bad for health
August 2016
  • Vaping warning: Doctors express concern about exploding e-cigarettes
  • Bacteria in smokeless tobacco products may be a health concern
  • UNC scientists: E-cigarettes not best way to stop smoking
  • Adolescents Who Wouldn’t Have Smoked May Be Drawn to E-Cigarettes
  • Smoking Rates Still High in Some Racial Groups, CDC Reports
  • FDA vaping rule is ridiculous
July 2016
  • 'Cool, fun factor' motivates e-cigarette use in teens
  • Teen vaping could reverse progress in the control of tobacco
  • Setting the Stage for the Next Decade of Tobacco Control Research

  • ​Ugly Is the New Look for Cigarette Packs
June 2016
  • CDC Says Smoking Laws, Like Politics, Are Local
  • Do you know what you're smoking? Research suggests that you don't
  • ​​Lawmakers pushing back to delay e-cigarette regulation Some fear negative effects of FDA rules on expanding industry
  • Researchers emphasize need to rethink tobacco control strategies
  • In all US regions, broad support for increasing legal age of tobacco sales  
  • White House scrapped FDA plan to restrict flavored e-cigarettes
  • Do picture warnings on cigarettes increase quit attempts?​​
May 2016
  • FDA Regulates E-Cigarettes, Hookahs
  • What Is the CDC Implying with this Vaping PSA?
  • Survey: Most Smokers Prefer Smoking to Vaping
  • This Infographic Shows How Far Smoking Has Come In 2016
  • E-cigarette tax may be new fix as tobacco money goes up in smoke
  • No Matter Your Diet, Quitting Smoking Leads To Weight Gain
  • U.S. Bans E-Cigarettes in Checked Bags on Planes
  • Researchers emphasize need to rethink tobacco control strategies
  • How pictures of cigarettes can set economic policy
  • CDC: Smoke Is Clearing in U.S.​
April 2016
  • Caution advised in over-regulating e-cigarettes as alternative to smoking tobacco
  • Teens Most Drawn To E-Cigarettes by Online Ads
  • Court: Law doesn't bar suits against cigarette manufacturers
  • Researchers reveal that numerous health websites mislead public on risks of nicotine products
  • Most online liquid nicotine vendors fail to prevent sales to minors  
  • Teen vapers have easy time buying supplies online
March 2016
  • Price favors tobacco cigarettes
  • Twitter-based smoking cessation programs twice as successful as traditional methods in helping smokers quit
  • Smoking around your child could affect their health forever
  • Cigarettes cheaper than e-cigarettes in 44 of 45 countries studied  
  • Smoking cessation benefits persist in spite of weight gain in patients with mental illness
  • Taxing question of e-cigarettes
  • Kids Across America 'Kick Butts' Today, Boosting Efforts to Make the Next Generation Tobacco-Free
  • Mother's smoking may influence child's lung function decades later
  • 'Cold turkey' wins for successful smoking cessation
  • Mother's smoking may increase her children's risk of lung disease as adults
  • US bans use of e-cigarettes on airline flights
February 2016
  • Smoking bans have helped cut childhood smoking uptake by a fifth
  • The Pot Economy Is Way Bigger Than You Realize
  • Can Smoking Kill Cat Videos? A Bold Public Health Ad Says Yes
  • Could FDA e-cigarette regulations help more people quit smoking?
  • E-Cigarettes Are More Popular Than Ever Before - According to Google Search
  • More evidence found on potential harmful effects of e-cigarettes
  • ​Have national smoking bans worked in reducing harms in passive smoking?
January 2016
  • ​Smokers diagnosed with pneumonia found to have higher risk of lung cancer
  • Smoking is damaging your pet's health, researchers warn
  • E-cigarettes Don't Help Smokers Quit Tobacco
  • Smoking cessation therapies 'have limited effect'
  • E-cigarettes: teen users three times more likely to smoke a year later
December 2015
  • Teens with fewer mental health issues turn to e-cigarettes
  • Active and passive smoking linked to infertility and earlier menopause
  • Tobacco companies spend $20 to market products for every $1 states spend on tobacco prevention, new report finds  ​
  • Neural devices and ethical questions, cesarean delivery, e-cigarettes in health care settings, and more in the Hastings Center Report
  • Tax increases on tobacco decrease infant mortality rates
November 2015
  • Hiding tobacco products at convenience stores reduces teens' risk of future tobacco use
  • Blood from small children 'remembers' prenatal smoking exposure
  • Cancer risk for smokeless tobacco users 
  • Residents mixed on proposed smoking ban in public housing (Update) 
  • US adult smoking rate falls to new low
  • CDC measures success of tips campaign ads
  • Teen tobacco dependence should be treated with 'same urgency as other drugs,' study says
October 2015
  • Tualang honey supplements found to reduce harmful side effects of smoking
  • A key to clarifying the mechanism which accelerates aging in smokers  
  • Smoking cessation drug proves initially more effective for women
  • Online e-cigarette vendors engage customers using popular internet tools 
September 2015
  • Study's message to recovering alcoholics: Quit smoking to stay sober
  • Could asthma be inherited from grandmothers who smoke?
  • Smoking increases hospitalizations, costs of peripheral artery disease
  • Task Force recommends behavioral interventions and medication to help smokers quit
  • Experts question the evidence underpinning e-cigarette recommendations
  • Almost a fifth of students using e-cigarettes to vape cannabis
August 2015
  • 15 percent of cigarettes sold in NYC have illegal tax stamps, study finds
  • Raising pay can reduce smoking rates
  • Combustible and Smokeless Tobacco Use Among High School Athletes — United States, 2001–2013
  • With tobacco, what you don't know can kill you sooner
  • E-cigarette use may lead to conventional smoking in teens, study finds
  • Teen smokers struggle with body-related shame, guilt
  • Boston mayor wants ban on chewing tobacco at ballparks
  • New Breakthrough Study Just Might Pave the Way in Helping Smokers Quit Smoking
  • Current Cigarette Smoking Among Workers in Accommodation and Food Service
  • El Oso Park Becomes Phoenix's First Tobacco-Free Park
  • Trenton's smoking ban a win for the community
  • Ohio University campus goes tobacco-free
  • Flavoring, other additives increase cigarettes’ addictiveness
JULY 2015
  • Current Cigarette Smoking Among Workers in Accommodation and Food Services
  • Tobacco prevention campaign from CDC brought into Southwest Georgia
  • Lung Cancer Patients Who Quit Smoking Live Longer
  • Expensive Cigarettes No Longer Keep Teenagers From Smoking
  • Does Smoking Increase Schizophrenia Risk?
  • Researchers find disparities in smoke-free law coverage
  • Study Hints at Link Between Smoking, Higher Schizophrenia Risk
  • More states enact higher tobacco taxes
  • Cancer survivors who smoke perceive less risk from tobacco
  • Raising Taxes on Tobacco Can Save Lives
  • Syracuse University Officially a Smoke, Tobacco-Free Campus
  • UVM campus to go tobacco free on August 1st
  • U.S. Chamber Fights Smoking Laws While Hospitals and Insurers Sit on Its Board
JUNE 2015
  • CDC: States should spend more on anti-tobacco efforts
  • Public Health Experts Say Tobacco Industry Up to Old Tricks in Pushing E-Cigarettes
  • President Obama, U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador have opportunity to curb tobacco epidemic forever
  • Celebrate Father's Day by Quitting Tobacco
  • Hawaii first state in the nation to raise age on tobacco products
  • 40-cent cigarette tax hike not enough, anti-tobacco advocates say
  • Health board tobacco regulations will go into effect July 1
  • E-cigarettes included in new Michigan State campus-wide ban of tobacco use
  • DDT Exposure During Pregnancy Linked To Breast Cancer
  • City moves to treat electronic cigarettes like tobacco
  • To Cut Teen Smoking, Raise Tobacco Sales Age
  • Cigarette Smoking Facts & Effects: Tobacco Causes Lung Cancer & 11 More Cancers
  • City kids swapping cigarettes for cigars
  • We've reduced demand for cigarettes, next step is to target the supply
  • Baby & Me: Tobacco Free program offered locally
  • E-cigarettes Are Just as Addictive as Tobacco, Thanks to Pyrazine Additives
  • Assembly to vote on ban of smokeless tobacco at schools
  • Tobacco reduction programs working: Smoking rates down in NYS
  • One in Ten Americans Now Vape But Most Also Use Regular Tobacco Products
  • Minneapolis considers restrictions on flavored tobacco products
  • Protect Your Kids from Tobacco
  • E-Cigarette Users Often Believe Devices Will Help Them Quit Tobacco
  • Children endangered by their exposure to tobacco substances
  • Tobacco Firms Drop Labeling Suit Against FDA
  • San Jose City Council approves ban on tobacco coupons
  • Health Officials Worldwide Raise Awareness on World No Tobacco Day
  • Hollister seeks to prohibit tobacco sales in pharmacies
MAY 2015
  • World No Tobacco Day 2015: On illicit trade and taxes
  • Benefits of a tobacco-free workplace
  • Senate passes anti-tobacco bill
  • Honolulu: sign the tobacco and e-cigarette ban
  • Smart Woman - stopping death by tobacco!
  • Michigan Tobacco Quitline reaches 100,000 callers
  • DC budget would extend 70 percent tobacco tax to vapor products, e-cigarettes
  • Oregon bill would raise tobacco purchasing age to 21, introduce new retail restrictions 
  • CA health groups push $2 tobacco tax hike
  • E-cigarettes: Doctors' View: E-cigarette, tobacco smoke enough alike to warrant regulation
  • San Francisco bans chewing tobacco at sports venues 
  • Point of Purchase: What is it? How do tobacco companies utilize it?
  • Big tobacco: why smoking is not going away 
  • Oklahoma governor signs tobacco-free schools bill into law
  • Youth who receive tobacco coupons may be more susceptible to smoking
  • Gov. Mary Fallin signs bill banning tobacco at schools and school events
  • State plans to restore funding for Illinois Tobacco Quitline
  • Tobacco tax initiative proposed for California
  • USPSTF says not enough evidence to recommend e-cigarettes for smoking cessation
  • Pregnant women believe e-cigs less harmful than tobacco
  • (Michigan) State Tobacco Hotline hits new plateau
  • Tax committees push Kansas tobacco talks to next week
  • NC needs to restore tobacco-use prevention programs
  • Watch out: Joe Camel is back
  • Letter: Gov. Rauner, restore funding for tobacco quitline
APRIL 2015
  • Hawaii could become first state to prohibit sale of tobacco to people under 21
  • Lawmakers propose higher tobacco tax to pay for higher education
  • Eddystone recognized for tobacco-free parks, playground program
  • Tobacco Quitline callers eligible for extra support to quit April 27- May 10
  • Bill would ban use of public assistance to purchase tobacco
  • New Orleans bars issue last call for smoking
  • The perils of smokeless tobacco
  • Princeton becomes 7th N.J. town prohibiting tobacco sales to customers under 21
  • Justina Felix and Celeste Ramos: FDA must regulate all tobacco products, including e-cig
  • Smoking out tobacco use needed, even if businesses lose
  • Use Of E-Cigarettes Triples Among U.S. Teens
  • Bill would stop alcohol, tobacco marketing to kids online
  • Updated: Illinois Tobacco Quitline closes amid grant suspensions
  • New UCSF report finds smokeless tobacco use by pro athletes influences kids, says Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
  • High school, middle school kids now use more e-cigs than tobacco: CDC
  • Measures in the fight on tobacco and e-cigarettes
  • Princeton Board of Health to vote on tobacco ban for people under 21
  • Ban chewing tobacco at baseball games? Voters like the idea
  • US tobacco companies file suit against FDA over label regulations
  • Guest commentary: Legal loopholes let Big Tobacco target kids with new products
  • Curt Schilling writes letter to 16-year-old self warning against chewing tobacco
  • Group’s lawsuits aim to boost public health
  • Pennsylvania wins a round in tobacco settlement case
  • An audacious attempt to cure pancreatic cancer
  • The high cost of breast cancer "false positives"
  • National Alliance for Hispanic Health joins with CDC in educational campaign to prevent smoking (English; Spanish)
  • FDA panel votes against smokeless tobacco safety claims
  • Tobacco resources offer context for tobacco-free future
  • Meet the cancer doctor who wants the FDA to soften tobacco warnings
  • Alabama Health Change calls for increase to tobacco tax
  • Report gives guidance to FDA on tobacco policy and public health
  • Should you be 21 to buy tobacco?
  • Health groups back proposed tobacco tax hike in Kansas
MARCH 2015
  • CDC anti-smoking ads target e-cigarettes for first time, highlight tobacco’s links to variety of diseases
  • Global conference declares all tobacco products harmful
  • Group seeks tobacco tax hike to fund early-childhood education
  • Group seeks tobacco tax hike to fund early-childhood education
  • 'Dizziness', the super-tobacco hooking UAE teens
  • Australia's plain packaging is working: first comprehensive evaluation of world-first tobacco laws released
  • WHO chief wants tobacco firms pushed 'out of business'
  • Michael Bloomberg, Bill Gates launch anti-tobacco legal fund
  • Kick Butts Day takes on tobacco in schools
  • Oklahoma House committee passes tobacco-free schools measure
  • New paper in Pediatrics by UMMS professor helps pediatricians reduce youth tobacco use
  • Increased tobacco tax may help stem growing numbers of Ohio smokers: Shelly Kiser, American Lung Association
  • Vaping in e-cigarette ads found to stimulate tobacco cravings
  • Tobacco prevention campaigns for Native Americans tell kids to 'Keep It Sacred'
  • Teen use of alcohol, tobacco continues to decrease, while interest grows in marijuana, e-cigarettes
  • FTC turns up scrutiny on Reynolds-Lorillard deal with questions on Imperial
  • Experts call for a tobacco-free world by 2040
  • For our kids, let's take tobacco out of baseball
  • Britian votes in favor of plain packaging for tobacco items
  • Report: Raising legal age for tobacco would stop, delay use
  • Indiana health advocates push to double tobacco tax
  • How will e-cigarette regulation impact the tobacco industry?
  • New tobacco cessation protocol could save Texas millions of dollars
  • E-cigarettes, tobacco cessation, and the role of HCPs
  • Female fetuses exposed to tobacco smoke may have increased diabetes risk in middle age
  • Most Americans support raising tobacco sales age to 21
  • Duke University expert joins FDA at critical juncture for drug, tobacco oversight
  • Smartphone app helps Washingtonians quit tobacco
  • Study: Tobacco 'kills 2 in 3 smokers'
FEBRUARY 2015
  • WHO: Treaty Making Inroads in Global Tobacco Epidemic
  • California proposal would ban chewing tobacco at baseball parks, with MLB support
  • John Oliver exposes big tobacco's intimidation tactics
  • Great American Spit Out targets smokeless tobacco use
  • Movie screenings will protest tobacco use in films
  • A new campaign to raise Missouri's tobacco tax would fund early childhood programs
  • FDA panel to review application for 'modified risk' tobacco
  • Four U.S. Senators propose tobacco tax changes
  • Smoking’s toll on health is even worse than previously thought, a study finds
  • E-cigarette study on tap at UW tobacco research center
  • Federal campaign aims to help military members drop chewing tobacco
  • Smoking's death toll may be higher than anyone knew
  • Specialty drugs help CVS 4Q; quitting tobacco hurts
  • CVS Health Foundation commits $5 Million to campaign for Tobacco-Free Kid
  • What to watch in North Dakota's Legislature: Common Core, tobacco taxes, surge funding
  • E-cigarettes could be just as harmful as tobacco, Johns Hopkins researchers say
  • Teen tobacco users likely to use it in multiple forms
  • Obama's health budget targets Medicare, tobacco, food-borne illness
  • Some kids use tobacco, e-cigarettes together, study finds
JANUARY 2015
  • Texas bill would regulate vapor products
  • New York state bill would ban most flavored tobacco products
  • Tobacco smoking ruining lives: Lung cancer rates alarming
  • Do e-cigarettes break the hold of Big Tobacco or condemn kids to addiction?
  • New tobacco products can still be harmful
  • Study shows effectiveness of simple, low-cost tobacco interventions in ERs
  • Average cost of a Nevada smoker? $1.3 million
  • Bipartisan support for reforms of Va. tobacco commission
  • CVS’ decision to pull tobacco lands CEO State of the Union guest slot
  • State launches 'Dear Me New Hampshire' anti-tobacco campaign
  • E-Cigarettes can churn out high levels of formaldehyde
  • Big tobacco pledge to eliminate child labor
  • What the Reynolds/Lorillard merger says about tobacco in North Carolina
  • Up in smoke: e-cigarette use by teens rises, while their tobacco use falls
  • Can a woman’s period help her kick tobacco and other addictions?
  • Increase Indiana's low tobacco tax
  • Opponents of new tobacco and e-cig regs launch initiative effort
  • American Red Cross pressured to rid itself of tobacco money
  • NYC hookah investigation busts 13 bars for using tobacco
  • New policy statement issued on e-cigarettes by cancer organizations
  • Illinois Tobacco Quitline can help smokers break the habit
  • NH Health Department: Small Increase in Youth Tobacco Sales in NH
  • Study finds college campus tobacco-free policies are effective
  • Arizona's anti-tobacco programs performing well but underfunded
  • The tricky world of online tobacco sales – the FDA issues warning letters to retailers for sales of NSE-products
  • Kentucky Falls Behind in Tobacco-Prevention Spending
DECEMBER 2014
  • States Raised Taxes on Tobacco 111 Times Since 2000
  • Tobacco Free Coalition's Ryan Sheahan: Consider giving up tobacco for the new year
  • Maryland cigarette tax is saving lives 
  • LGBT HealthLink grades states on LGBT tobacco integration
  • Better life choices may prevent 4 in 10 cancers
  • Beyond smoke-free (Kentucky)
  • Tobacco tax: Move for $2 per pack gains momentum in CA
  • World No Tobacco Day 2015: Stop illicit trade of tobacco products
  • What Obama's Cuba deal means for the future of Cuban cigars
  • Levels of cancer-causing chemicals in smokeless tobacco products influence carcinogen exposure
  • Are states spending enough on tobacco control and prevention?
  • Eat better, move more and be tobacco free
  • Two studies find big jump in teen use of e-cigarettes
  • Hookah pipes, smokeless tobacco snus associated with smoking onset
  • Smoking erases the Y chromosome in men, increasing cancer risks
  • Bad News for Smokers: Tobacco Hits a Dubious Milestone
  • Risk Warnings on Smokeless Tobacco
  • New test could warn smokers if they are at risk for developing lung cancer
  • Medicare, Medicaid to begin covering lung cancer screenings for smokers
  • Tobacco Prices on Base Go Up Under Defense Spending Bill
NOVEMBER 2014
  • Electronic Cigarettes Carcinogenic Content 10 Times Higher Than Regular Tobacco Cigarettes?
  • Cancer Survivors Mark Smokeout Pushing For Stronger Tobacco Prevention Laws
  • November 20, 2014: The Great American Smokeout
  • CDC pushes increased 'tobacco control' as teen smoking holds steady
  • Teens living close to high number of tobacco shops more likely to smoke
  • Massachusetts town weighs nations first tobacco ban
  • Tobacco danger report 75th anniversary conference
  • Research links tobacco smoke and roadway air pollution with childhood obesity
  • Menthol cigarettes no safer than regular tobacco - and maybe riskier
  • Momentum slowly builds for raising age limit for buying tobacco to 21
OCTOBER 2014
  • More cities raise tobacco age to 21
  • Calls increase for tighter control of e-cigarettes
  • California city becomes first in state to ban tobacco sales to anyone under 21
  • After cutting tobacco sales, CVS is now pressuring other pharmacies to do the same
  • National School Boards Association ends partnership with R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
  • $18 billion tobacco toll in California
  • Tobacco tied to higher risk of Oral HPV infection
  • Lawton tobacco ban expands
  • Ashland health board OKs restrictions on tobacco, ecigs
  • Tobacco sellers fume over proposed Newburgh law
  • As E-cigarette bans gain steam across state, no such plans in Louisville
  • Board of Health hears opinions on proposed tobacco ordinance changes
  • University of Alaska considering tobacco ban on its campuses 
  • A ban on tobacco sales might be coming to U.S. military bases
  • How the big tobacco deal went bad
  • Nebraska teens to target big tobacco at summit
SEPTEMBER 2014
  • CVS takes cigarettes off their shelves a month ahead of schedule, plus company is launching smoking cessation program
  • Kentucky expands their smoking restrictions around state buildings to include surrounding properties
  • Time to send a message to pregnant women who use tobacco
  • Dangerous Cloud 9 drug gaining popularity with teens (can be used with e-cigarettes)
AUGUST 2014
  • The World Health Organization releases strong regulations against e-cigarettes, including ads and tactics that entice young users
  • CDC releases report that states more than a quarter of a million youth who had never smoked a cigarette used electronic cigarettes in 2013
  • State Attorneys General from 29 states request that the FDA strengthen their regulations on e-cigarettes
  • Wall street struck tobacco deals that left states with billions in toxic debt
  • FDA issues NSE orders to Star Scientific, Inc. to stop the sale and distribution of seven dissolvable tobacco products
  • FDA publishes a notice in the Federal Register announcing the availability of ten filed modified risk tobacco product (MRTP) applications for public comment
JULY 2014
  • Reynolds America buying Lorillard
  • World Health Organization releases Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) report
  • FDA issues six Not Substantially Equivalent (NSE) orders and companies withdrew 22 SE reports from the review process
JUNE 2014
  • CDC reports 'other tobacco' products are on the rise after teen cigarette smoking was at its lowest point in 22 years
  • E-Cigarettes remain largely unregulated with more than 460 brands and 7700 flavors
  • The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launches first national public education campaign to prevent, reduce youth tobacco use
MAY 2014
  • Human Rights Watch denounces kids working in tobacco fields, a legal practicing beginning at age 12
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launches its third paid national tobacco education campaign--Tips From Former Smokers (Tips)
APRIL 2014
  • E-cigarettes subject to the same regulations as other tobacco products in New York and Chicago
  • FDA proposes e-cigarette regulations
MARCH 2014
  • Attorneys General from several states ask Big Retailers to follow CVS' lead and pull tobacco from stores (additional article).  
FEBRUARY 2014
  • CVS announces that it will stop selling tobacco products
JANUARY 2014
  • The health consequences of smoking—50 years of progress a report of the Surgeon General (Spanish version here)


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