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FDA is right to ban menthol cigarettes | Editorial

Take a deep breath, America. We’ve made serious progress against cigarette smoking. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 23% of adults were...

Utahns eligible to aid in study exploring if nicotine can improve memory

When you think of nicotine, heart disease, lung cancer and emphysema might come to mind, but in reality, the substance doesn’t cause any of...

FDA’s New Plan to Eliminate Most Nicotine in Cigarettes

The FDA plans to impose a product standard that would eliminate most nicotine from cigarettes, making them effectively non-addictive, and neutering the tobacco industry’s...

UofL to use $3.6 million federal grant to study the effects of flavorings in e-cigarettes

The University of Louisville received a $3.6 million grant from the to study the effects of flavorings used in electronic cigarettes. Researchers will use the...

Warnings printed directly on cigarettes won’t make people butt out | Colby Cosh

Incentivizing the use of e-cigarettes would dramatically reduce smoking rates, but Health Canada is doing its utmost to make them less attractive to smokers Great...