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Nov 15

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Will FDA’s latest restrictions reduce underage vaping and smoking?

The Food and Drug Administration moved to ban sales of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars while announcing new guidelines for retailers selling flavored e-cigarettes in order to curb the rise in underage smoking and vaping. The ban is the biggest…

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Mar 15

FDA begins push to reduce levels of nicotine in cigarettes

By Matthew Perrone, Associated Press

Under one scenario, the FDA estimates reducing nicotine could help the U.S. smoking rate could fall as low as 1.4 percent by 2060, down from the 15 percent of adults who smoke now.

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Jan 11

This surgeon general’s famous report alerted Americans to the deadly dangers of cigarettes

By Dr. Howard Markel

On this day in 1964, Dr. Luther Terry released an earth-shaking, 150,000-word report entitled, "Smoking and Health."…

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Dec 15

Teens don’t always know what they’re vaping, study says

By Michael Rios

The study, called Monitoring the Future, was released Thursday by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the University of Michigan. It surveyed more than 43,000 eighth, 10th and 12th graders across the country in early 2017 about their…

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Oct 14

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This cancer survivor wants to stop kids in the Philippines from lighting up

By PBS News Hour

As smoking rates have fallen in the U.S. and Europe, tobacco companies have focused their advertising elsewhere, especially Asia. In the Philippines, 25 percent of the population smokes, and cigarettes are a leading cause of death. But one former smoker…

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May 12

Cigarettes still haunt these former smokers

By Jocelyn Wiener, Kaiser Health News

A national campaign from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention targets groups across the U.S. where smoking remains a prevalent habit.

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Jan 12

New Jersey may become second state to raise smoking age to 21

By Joshua Barajas

New Jersey lawmakers passed a bill Monday that would fine retailers up to $1,000 for selling tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes, to people under 21 years of age.

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May 06

Watch 9:17
Does vaping save smokers or create new nicotine addicts?

By PBS News Hour

E-cigarettes, which produce vapor instead of smoke, are supposed to be a safer nicotine option. But the product is completely unregulated by the federal government, and there’s been little research on its long-term effects. The industry, too, faces uncertainty, as…

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Nov 16

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Massachusetts town mulls nation’s first total tobacco ban

By PBS News Hour

The town of Westminster, Mass., could become the first in the nation to ban the sale of tobacco products if a proposal from the city's board of health passes in December. The unprecedented pitch would ban the sale cigarettes, chewing…

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Aug 06

How to reuse cigarette filters to store energy

By News Desk

Collect those discarded cigarette butts. South Korean researchers have found a way to convert the used filters into a material that can be used to store energy.

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