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Atlantic City Smoking Ban

New Jersey bill would ban smoking inside Atlantic City casinos

To reduce tobacco use, Pennsylvania and New Jersey need to do much more, report says

Tobacco Use Report

Children's Health

High school athletes are more likely to vape than their peers, despite making otherwise healthy choices

Vaping Teen Athletes

Can cash incentives spur obese people to lose weight? Research is mixed

cash incentive for changed health behavior

Marijuana smokers are twice as likely as cigarette users to develop peraseptal emphysema, chest scans show

Cannabis use and lung disease

Why is the FDA seeking to ban menthol cigarettes? 4 questions answered

Cancer survivors have higher risk of a new diagnosis, but scientists still aren't sure why

Care for cancer survivors

FDA proposes landmark ban on menthol cigarettes in effort to curb smoking

FDA Menthol Cigarette Ban

Childhood health can predict risk of heart attack, stroke later in life

Making healthy lifestyle changes

Children's Health

Having certain health conditions as a teen may accelerate aging as an adult

Smoking and aging

E-cigarettes are not an effective tool for smoking cessation, study suggests

E-cigarette smokers have higher risk of stroke at younger ages, study finds

Electronic cigarettes and stroke risk

Smokers who quit before age 45 nearly eliminate risk of dying from lung cancer

Quit Smoking Cancer Risk

N.J.'s temporary ban on smoking in casinos expires on Sunday

New Jersey casinos smoking ban

Wildwood Crest bans smoking on the beach, imposes restrictions on marijuana use

Wildwood Crest beach smoking

FDA looks to ban menthol cigarettes in order to curb smoking

The COVID-19 pandemic has made it tougher to quit smoking

Smoking during pandemic

New lung cancer screening guidelines double the number of Americans who should receive annual CT scans

Vaping marijuana may be worse for teens than using e-cigarettes or smoking

Vaping marijuana

Youth vaping threatens to wipe out gains in cigarette use, health experts warn

Seat belts and smoking rates show people eventually adopt healthy behaviors

Seat Belt Rates

Wawa to begin selling Nicorette products for smoking cessation

Wawa Nicorette

Smoking prohibited inside New Jersey casinos due to health and safety risks

new jersey casino smoking ban

Smokers should begin cessation drugs, then decide when to quit

Smoking cessation guidelines

Smoking doubles young adults' risk of severe coronavirus complications

Smoking COVID-19 risk

One way to reduce smoking: Mandate standardized packaging, higher taxes

Cigarette packaging

New lung cancer screening guidelines would benefit women, Black people

New lung cancer screening guidelines

Scientists may have determined why many non-smokers develop COPD

COPD cause respiratory system

Smokers have greater risk of severe coronavirus complications, research shows

Smokers are at greater risk of severe illness with COVID-19, researchers find

Like secondhand smoke, scientists find 'thirdhand' smoke also may pose health risks to non-smokers

Thirdhand Smoke Chemical Effects

Juul pitches locked e-cigarette that blocks underage users

Juul Age Lock FDA

More stringent regulations are reducing tobacco retailers in Philly, study finds

Tobacco retailers Philly

Quit smoking at least 4 weeks before surgery, WHO advises

Quit smoking before surgery

Scientists have yet to 'cure' cancer, but significant advancements have improved survival rates

Children's Health

Philly health department busts 149 businesses for selling tobacco to minors

U-Haul adopts policy to stop hiring smokers, e-cigarette users in 21 states

U-Haul truck lineup

Ten defining health care achievements of the 2010s, from artificial intelligence to immunotherapy

Affordable Care Act Obama 2010s

CDC: Evidence growing that vitamin E acetate was behind vaping-related lung injury outbreak

Teen popcorn lung vaping

FDA greenlights sale of cigarettes with 95% less nicotine

FDA approves sale of reduced nicotine cigarettes

New Pennsylvania law boosts minimum age to buy tobacco, e-cigarettes

Tobacco age 21 pennsylvania

Some smokers credit e-cigarettes with saving their lives – does that matter?

Cigarette smoking at lowest level in 55 years, but more adults are vaping

Cigarette smoking declining among American adults

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