Fifty years and 8 million lives saved since the first surgeon general’s...
It’s probably my earliest public health memory — the image of Surgeon General C. Everett Koop and his grandfatherly beard on the television warning my elementary school self about the dangers of...
View ArticleReynolds in Talks to Acquire Lorillard in Merger of Tobacco Rivals
By Anthony Robbins, MD, MPA So screams a headline in the New York Times business section on July 12, 2014. Two of the three tobacco companies in the $100 billion US market plan to merge. Fifty years...
View ArticleCDC: American youth now use e-cigarettes more than any other tobacco product
In just a year, electronic cigarette use has tripled among American teens. And considering that no one really knows what the related health impacts are and any regulatory framework is lagging far...
View ArticleMore evidence that indoor smoking bans and smart public health policy are...
Because there can never be enough research to illustrate the positive impact of public health policy on people’s health, here’s another one. This one found that comprehensive smoke-free indoor air laws...
View ArticleCDC: Current, former smokers biggest users of electronic cigarettes
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released the first nationally representative estimates of electronic cigarette use among U.S. adults, finding that more than 12 percent had ever...
View ArticleStudy: Flavoring chemicals linked to occupational illness found in electronic...
In a recent study, Harvard public health researchers decided to test a few dozen types of electronic cigarettes for diacetyl, a flavoring chemical associated with a severe respiratory disease known as...
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