Category: Smoking

Smoking

Fewer Young Americans Say They Smoke Cigarettes

Rates of cigarette smoking among young U.S. adults have drastically declined since 2001, new data show.

Smoking

Juul to Pay $438M for Vaping Marketing Practices

Juul Labs agreed to pay $438.5 million to 33 states and Puerto Rico to settle a lawsuit over the company's marketing of high-nicotine vaping products, according to multiple media reports.

Smoking

How Can Machine Learning Help Us Understand Lung Damage in Smokers?

Use of the Epigenetic Smoking Status Estimator (EpiSmokEr) — a machine learning classifier — appears to capture relevant smoking-related biologic effects on the lungs.

Tobacco

Graphic Warning Labels Led Smokers to Hide Cigarette Packs

Smokers in the United States who received cigarette packs with graphic warning labels hid their packs 38% more often, but stopped hiding their cigarettes when they returned to regular packs without the graphic warning labels.

Vaping & E-Cigarettes

Preventing E-cigarette Use by American Indian/Alaska Native Youth

The FDA has launched a campaign to educate American Indian/Alaska Native youth ages 12-17 about the harms of e-cigarettes and vaping.

Nicotine Alternatives

Nicotine Pouches Reduce In-vitro Toxicity Compared to Combustible Cigarette Smoke

Reduced levels of toxicants in nicotine pouches translate directly into reduced in-vitro biological activity, a recent study in the journal Applied In Vitro Toxicology shows.