Cigarettes would contain less addictive nicotine — making them less attractive to smokers — under an “unprecedented” plan the Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday. ...
Read More »Teens Using E-Cigarettes More Prone to Take Up Smoking
Teenagers who use electronic cigarettes may be more likely to smoke the real thing, new research suggests. The study, which included almost 2,100 California high ...
Read More »Electronic Cigarettes Are Booming in the U.S.
Smoking is on the rise due to an increase in the use of electronic cigarettes, particularly by smokers of traditional cigarettes. Instead of replacing tobacco ...
Read More »Obesity Tied to Half a Million Cancers Worldwide, Report Shows
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 26, 2014 (HealthDay News) — Obesity is associated with close to 500,000 new cancer cases worldwide each year, and nearly two-thirds of obesity-related ...
Read More »More Than One-Fifth of High School Students Smoke: CDC
THURSDAY, Nov. 13, 2014 (HealthDay News) — More than a fifth of American teens smoke or use tobacco in some way, which means that millions ...
Read More »Duelling Studies Say E-Cigs Can Help Quit, But Also Addicting, Harmful
Regular use of electronic cigarettes may help users of traditional cigarettes kick the habit. The tobacco habit, that is. According to a new study from ...
Read More »CVS: Patients Filling Prescriptions Were Also Buying Cigarettes
Patients using medicine to treat high blood pressure, asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were likely to buy cigarettes while filling prescriptions at pharmacies, according ...
Read More »Big Tobacco Successfully Increasing E-Cigarette Use In Youths
By Brad Broker Don’t fool yourself: smoking electronic cigarettes is still smoking. The tobacco industry has positioned e-cigs as a less dangerous form of smoking ...
Read More »