Tag: smoking

    Will a Change of Leadership End the CDC’s Vaping Misinformation?

    On May 5, Rochelle Walensky, the director of the United States Centers for Disease ...

    Why I’m Still Fiercely Optimistic About Tobacco Harm Reduction

    Harm reduction is often misconceived as policies and practices introduced by governments and delivered ...

    Heated Tobacco Products Help People Quit Smoking, Even Unintentionally

    People who smoke switched entirely to using safer heated tobacco products when provided with ...

    UK’s World-First Plan to Give Vape Kits to a Million People Who Smoke

    The United Kingdom will be offering free nicotine vape kits to one million people ...

    Georgia Poised to Criminalize Vaping in Public Spaces

    The state of Georgia has long criminalized harm reduction whatever way it can, and ...

    Will New Bloomberg Funds Spread Vape Bans in Low-Income Countries?

    In February, billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s charitable organization Bloomberg Philanthropies announced an additional tobacco control ...

    Massachusetts Post-Menthols Ban: Mixed Smoking Impacts, More Policing

    Massachusetts is experiencing the aftershocks of menthol prohibition. In 2020, the Bay State became ...

    Tobacco Fairs, Free NRT and Few Vapes: A Conversation in Cuba

    Winning a prize for my laughable “dancing” skills at a bar in Havana was ...

    Why Are My Classmates Switching From Vaping to Smoking?

    When I first arrived in Rome to attend university last summer, I was surprised ...

    How I Quit Cigarettes in Prison, After Smoking for 40 Years

    I’m coming up on the three-year anniversary of the day I stopped smoking cigarettes. ...