Tag: tobacco
Trashed Cigarette Packs Highlight Failure of California’s Flavor Ban
Last year, California voters passed Proposition 31—banning the retail sale of flavored tobacco and ...
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 ...
Canada Mandates Health Warnings on Every Single Cigarette
Canada will soon be the first country in the world to mandate that a ...
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 ...
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. ...
“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 ...
Johns Hopkins Call for Nicotine “Common Language” Falls Flat
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has just published a video, featuring ...
The Biggest Tobacco Harm Reduction Battles to Come in 2023
United States tobacco control did not have an easy 2022. So much turmoil has ...
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 ...
