Tobacco

When there’s an outbreak of deaths or illnesses from injected street drugs, do public health authorities demand diabetics and doctors stop using syringes?

When products could save lives, it’s important for people to be informed about those benefits, along with the risks.

Should teenagers vape, text while driving, use marijuana, drink alcohol?  Absolutely not.  Demonizing vapor products only destroys public perception, scares adult smokers from converting, and financially harms small businesses.

On March 4, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a statement the vaping community long assumed to be true: mom-and-pop vape shops are not the major culprits selling kids nicotine and tobacco products.

Why are lawmakers working so feverishly to limit their access to tobacco harm reduction products like e-cigarettes? The hypocrisy is seemingly endless.

On June 5, voters in San Francisco will vote whether the city should ban flavors, including menthol, in tobacco and vaping products. Proposition E comes a year after the San…

The FDA recently announced a plan to move forward to develop a regulation that would mandate a reduction in nicotine in combustible cigarettes to a very low level. The FDA justified the move by stating that such a mandate could help current smokers quit, and prevent experimental users from becoming regular smokers.

Philip Morris International (PMI) has recently submitted modified risk tobacco product (MRTP) applications to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for market approval of its iQOS heated tobacco products. iQOS…

Cigarette smokers prefer e-cigarettes to FDA-approved quit methods, according to a research brief authored by the CDC Office on Smoking and Health, RTI International and the University of North Carolina…

State legislatures have been lobbied in a coordinated effort, called Tobacco 21 (here), to raise the minimum age for tobacco sales from 18 to 21 years.  Hawaii, California and the…

A New York State senator – Brad Hoylman (D-Manhattan) – has introduced legislation to ban the sale of flavored electronic cigarettes in New York. To promote this ban, he argued…

In an interesting twist from the usual reasoning in public health, anti-vaping advocates are promoting the enactment of policies that ban vaping in public places not because secondhand vaping has…

The New York State Department of Health has sent out a letter to medical professionals in the state, urging them to discourage patients from quitting smoking using e-cigarettes, even if…