Tag: smoking
Recent Reports Reflect How the FDA Props Up the Cigarette Trade
Two subscription-only reports have recently highlighted how the Food and Drug Administration is effectively ...
The Menthols Ban: Delayed, Divisive and Far From Dead
The planned national ban on menthol cigarettes in the United States was postponed indefinitely ...
In the Ugly Nicotine Debate, Being Kind Isn’t Just Right—It’s Effective
Going to school as an autistic kid sometimes felt like a never-ending nightmare. Spitballs ...
UK Bill to Ban Tobacco Sales Clears Another Hurdle, Nearing Final Vote
The United Kingdom’s tobacco ban is one step closer to becoming law. On April ...
To End Smoking Harms in Rwanda, Educate Health Care Providers
Tobacco has long played a significant role in the culture of Rwanda—gifted and shared, ...
Charting US Public Health’s Disastrous Mission Creep on Smoking
In 1964, the United States surgeon general released the landmark Smoking and Health report, ...
Vapes Seem to Have Become More Effective as Smoking Cessation Tools
People in the United States have become increasingly likely to find that nicotine vapes ...
To Save Veterans’ Lives, the VA Must Innovate on Smoking Cessation
The United States has invested trillions of dollars to equip our armed forces with ...
Our Ban Has Failed: Time for India to Regulate Vapes
The first Indian state to ban vapes was Karnatataka, in 2016. The reason for ...
Predictable, Avoidable and Harmful: Canada’s Nicotine Pouch Fiasco
Canada is supposedly organized on the principles of “peace, order and good government.” My ...
