tobacco

FDA’s Approaching Menthol Cigarette Ban Would Expand the Drug War

A national ban on menthol cigarettes is inching closer. This month, the United States Food and Drug Administration will publish…

August 21, 2023

Canada Mandates Health Warnings on Every Single Cigarette

Canada will soon be the first country in the world to mandate that a health warning be printed on every…

June 13, 2023

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

Massachusetts is experiencing the aftershocks of menthol prohibition. In 2020, the Bay State became the first in the country to…

March 15, 2023

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 a major surprise. But it should…

March 9, 2023

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. It’s strange to think that I…

February 23, 2023

“Next Time It Could Be You”—The McCarthyism in Tobacco Control

At the end of November, an extraordinary episode caused outrage: the expulsion of Karl Erik Lund from a conference on…

January 19, 2023

Johns Hopkins Call for Nicotine “Common Language” Falls Flat

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has just published a video, featuring Johanna Cohen, the Bloomberg professor of…

January 12, 2023

The Biggest Tobacco Harm Reduction Battles to Come in 2023

United States tobacco control did not have an easy 2022. So much turmoil has come and gone this past year…

December 29, 2022

California’s Vape Flavor Ban Begins With Confusion, Enforcement Threats

On December 21, California’s nicotine flavor ban finally went into effect, a little more than a month after voters overwhelmingly…

December 22, 2022

New Court-Ordered Cigarette Warnings Will Omit Harm Reduction

On December 6, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that tobacco companies would be required to post signs in retail…

December 9, 2022