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Heart health is strongly linked to brain health and risk of dementia. That means improving one can protect us from the other.
Three tobacco-flavored cartridges and a vaping device have been approved by the FDA for sale in the US. It comes after a decadelong debate over e-cigarettes.
From October 1, Australians will only be able to buy e-cigarettes containing nicotine if they have a prescription from a doctor. But there’s another evidence-based way to help more smokers quit.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, more smokers are wanting to quit. So how can we best support them?
From 2021, it will be harder to import e-cigarettes. That protects young people, in particular, who are increasingly being lured into nicotine and tobacco addiction.
It’s hard to decide which treatment to choose when trying to quit smoking or lose weight. The term ‘number needed to treat’ could help you decide what is most likely to work.
The Canadian government is currently drafting regulations on plain packaging for cigarettes. Tobacco companies are trying to weaken the regulations via lobbying and misleading PR campaigns.
Using prescription drugs or over-the-counter gums, mints or patches won’t increase your chances of quitting smoking a year later, according to new study.
Personal stories about what helped people quit smoking can be misleading, and aren’t strong evidence.
Fewer young people are smoking, but overall smoking levels remain level. What’s stopping smoking levels in all ages dropping further?
The recent decision to effectively ban e-cigarettes will hurt poor and disadvantaged smokers the most.
Classing e-cigarettes as quit smoking aids could help rebrand the tobacco industry as a legitimate player in health policy. Here’s why we should be concerned.
California has one of the nation’s lowest cigarette taxes, due in large part to a powerful tobacco lobby. The power could shift this fall, if a voters agree to raise taxes by $2 a pack.
Doctors can now prescribe e-cigarettes as a quitting tool but the benefits of vaping may have been overstated.
It is three years since Australia fully implemented its historic tobacco plain packaging law. From December 1, 2012, all tobacco products have been required to be sold in the mandated standardised packs…
As smoking continues its inexorable southward journey toward single-digit percentages of populations being smokers, it’s common to hear people say the smokers who remain are all “hard core”, heavily dependent…
Monthly bouts of abstinence have become regular features of public health and charity campaigns, but there may be even more important milestones for giving up.
Every traveller forms impressions about patterns of frequently or seldom seen cultural differences when visiting other countries. You see far fewer women than men on the streets of more conservative Islamic…
Services like Facebook and YouTube may have the upper hand when it comes to getting people to give up cigarettes.
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