In 2019, an estimated 53.3% of high school students (8.0 million) and 24.3% of middle school students (2.9 million) reported having ever tried a tobacco product. Current (past 30-day) use of a tobacco product (i.e.,...
More than 6 million middle and high school students were currently using tobacco product in 2019, according to National Youth Tobacco Survey data released Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The survey...
A top Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official was grilled by members of Congress on Wednesday for declining to answers questions about the agency’s plan to curb youth vaping rates.
Mitch Zeller, director of the Center for Tobacco...
Sharon Levy, director of the adolescent substance use and addiction programme at the children’s hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, is quick to recall the first time a teenager with vaping-induced nicotine poisoning arrived at her clinic.
“This...
I don’t much like Los Angeles. The obnoxious car culture, the clogged freeways, the lame public transportation system, expensive smoothie shops on every block, overrated “hot” chicken restaurants with lines around the corner, and Hollywood....
December 4 , 2019, Toronto, ON: The Vaping Industry Trade Association (VITA) today called on the Physicians for a Smoke Free Canada (PSC) to remove or correct their erroneous online posting about VITA and come...
Nova Scotia has joined a growing list of provinces clamping down on vaping.
Health Minister Randy Delorey announced Thursday the province will be the first to ban sales of flavoured e-cigarettes and juices -- as of...
Province says it wants to combat the growth of youth vaping
Nova Scotia says it will become the first province to make it illegal to sell any kind of flavoured e-cigarettes and juices, announcing Thursday a...
We’re beyond the cliché of a post-truth world. Tobacco control policy expert David Sweanor says journos @KCroweCBC @carlyweeks and rest of MSM traded ethics for activism and joined the moralist battle against #vaping @CBCNews @globeandmail...
The notoriously secretive political advocacy group Physicians for A Smoke-Free Canada, are major players in the War on Vaping in Canada.
Who are they? What motivates their activism? And is Health Canada one of PSC...