Lung health is at risk from Covid-19. Naturally, some Americans turned to cigarettes.
Jamie Hickey, a 41-year-old personal trainer based in Pennsylvania, hadn’t smoked in eight years, but he caved when the Covid-19 pandemic hit. “The...
Researchers at the Center of Excellence for the Acceleration of Harm Reduction (CoEHAR*) in Catania, Italy have just published a groundbreaking study.
It shows that smokers with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who switched to vaping reduced their...
A variety of peer-reviewed studies argue the connection between the use and behavior of vaping products and devices and how such activities can exacerbate COVID-19.
Filter magazine published a tremendous analysis of the debate related to vaping and COVID-19....
Tobacco use is the top modifiable global health problem, but the global tobacco market grows 3% annually. Most anti-tobacco measures to date target demand (eg, higher excise taxes).
However, the endgame might require reducing supply....
Follow the science. It’s the exhortation we hear all the time from politicians and bureaucrats to activists and academics.
Whether at work or at school or via the mainstream media, we are awash in a...
Experts are urging people to avoid vaping near others as coronavirus could be spread through particles lingering in the air.
Current public health advice focuses on the hazards to the person using a device due...
Seven months and more than a million deaths into the pandemic, scientists around the globe still don’t understand why some people infected with coronavirus get extremely ill and die, while others survive.
The sheer range of outcomes for...
Young Canadians have been vaping less frequently since the COVID-19 pandemic began, a new survey has found, but the lead researcher cautions the habit is still an epidemic among youth.
The survey, conducted by the Lung Association of Nova Scotia...
In a letter to the US Food and Drug Administration, lawmakers are urging the agency to temporarily clear the market of all e-cigarettes for the duration of the coronavirus crisis.
The letter, sent to FDA commissioner Dr....
“Being a 21-year-old, I should not be spending six days in the hospital for lung complications,” said one young vaper who survived coronavirus.
Before coronavirus, pulmonologists, pediatricians and parents were busy battling a different nationwide health...