Vaping devices were designed as a clean way of delivering nicotine, to help people stop smoking tobacco. Now, with gummy bear flavours and celebrity endorsements, they are a serious public health problem.
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As organs go, lungs do not receive a lot of attention, and diseases associated with them, such as lung cancer, historically have been underfunded. Here’s a look at how your amazing lungs function.
Government data outline what’s popular with Canadian cannabis shoppers. Among other things, they prefer smoke-able cannabis, high-quality products and in-store shopping.
New clinical trial shows vaping is an effective way to quit smoking.
E-cigarettes may help smokers quit but research is still limited.
E-cigarette usage among teens has surged. A tobacco control expert explains how flavors may be contributing.
Handheld scanning technology could help police crack down on e-liquids with too much nicotine.
Why tobacco giant isn’t a credible partner for anti-cigarette smoking policy just yet, despite what they want you to think.
E-cigarettes have proved a useful tool to stop many smoking, but they may have their own health problems too.
A chemist assesses the potential risks of electronic cigarettes.
A new e-cigarette called Juul may be gaining popularity among youth. A new study used a novel approach to see if kids are vaping in school.
Some experts believe that e-cigarettes can help people stop smoking cigarettes. But do they lead others, especially teens, to start? The question intensifies as teens take up Juul.
A new study reveals the risks of vaping in non-smoking teenagers.
European tokers are still smoking cannabis mixed with tobacco while Americans have shifted to vaping. It’s time for Europe to catch up.
Requiring low-nicotine cigarettes sounds good, but it’s not the answer. Policy makers instead should speed up the support of safer, satisfying forms of nicotine and tobacco.
In 2012, in the early days of the rise of e-cigarettes, Kingsley Wheaton, Director of Corporate and Regulatory Affairs at British American Tobacco, said “Our core business is, and will remain in, tobacco…
Experts are petitioning the TGA to remove nicotine from the Poisons Standard so e-cigarettes can legally be used to quit smoking.
A core platform of the massive promotion of e-cigarettes has been the argument that because these products involve no combustion but only vapourisation, they must be substantially less dangerous than smoked…
Federal officials could give the FDA authority to develop e-cigarette regulations. But developing regulations that maximize their benefits and minimize their risks is harder than it looks.
Doctors can now prescribe e-cigarettes as a quitting tool but the benefits of vaping may have been overstated.
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Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Community Health and Health Behavior, University at Buffalo
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Associate Professor and Director of Evidence-Based Healthcare DPhil Programme, University of Oxford
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Director, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame, The University of Queensland
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Professor and Dean, School of Public Health, Georgia State University
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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Vermont
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Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Global Tobacco Control, Johns Hopkins University
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Director of Tobacco Prevention and Evaluation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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University Research Lecturer, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Mental Health, University of East Anglia
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Professor of pediatrics, microbiology and immunology, and environmental sciences and engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
