Tobacco - News Archive
Winter 2017
October 2017
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
- 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
- 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
NOVEMBER 2014
- 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
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
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