April 28th, 2019Big Tobacco is increasingly using social media to find new ways to hook young people on smoking, circumventing decades of laws restricting the marketing of traditional...
April 28th, 2019Asian countries are in the early stages of a tobacco smoking epidemic with habits mirroring those of the United States from past decades, setting the stage for a spike...
April 28th, 2019An article in the American Journal of Medicine reports no association between current vaping and self-reported cardiovascular disease among never smokers. But among...
Struggling to curb that cigarette habit? A study has found that people trying quit smoking may benefit from inhaling pleasant smelling aromas like peppermint, chocolate...Addiction Research
A substance that scientists identify to screen people for nicotine use may also play a role in smokers becoming addicted to tobacco, writes Christie Delfanian for South...
March 20th, 2019Smoking any cigarettes – even only one a day – during pregnancy more than doubles the risk of unexpected sudden infant death (SUID). Quitting smoking was associated...
March 11th, 2019From the iconic imagery of film noir where cigarette smoke swirls about the night air to the ever-present now of kids being ‘bad’, there is no shortage of social...
It's common knowledge that smoking during pregnancy confers a host of risks on a developing embryo and fetus, including miscarriage, low birth weight and premature...Addiction News
Twenty years ago, Georgia and 45 other US states reached an agreement with tobacco companies that settled all future claims against the firms about smoking. But a...
February 11th, 2019
A real danger is that debate around e-cigarettes drowns out the work needed to implement the full range of tobacco control measures, writes Nicholas S Hopkinsonin a...
