Smoking

Smoking during pandemic

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

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

Lung Cancer Screening

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

Vaping Gateway Cigarettes

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

Cancer cure radiation treatment 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

These habits can increase the risk of birth defects

Habits that increase the risk of birth defects

Smoking linked to increased risk of depression, schizophrenia

Smoking linked to increased risk of depression, schizophrenia

Flavor bans multiply, but menthol continues to divide

Menthol Cigarettes

Diabetes drug found to reduce symptoms of nicotine withdrawal

Nicotine Diabetes

Smoking on screen has increased by 120% in PG-13 movies since 2010, new research says

Teen_smoking

Children's Health

Secondhand smoke exposure may harm children's developing eyesight

Pennsylvania confirms first death linked to vaping-related lung illness

New Jersey confirms first death tied to national vaping epidemic

vaping death new jersey

Will Pennsylvania be the next state to raise the smoking age to 21?

Alternative Medicine

More people use marijuana to treat illness than to get high, study says

Marijuana use study illnesses

TV broadcast companies shun vaping ads, Walmart to stop carrying e-cigarettes

Walmart e-cigarette ban

Tobacco sales to minors in Philly skyrocketed in 2018, health department says

Cigarettes Philly minors

The test that could save the life of a long-time smoker you know

Smoking Cigarette Ashville 09032019

E-cigarettes cause damage to blood vessels even when used without nicotine, Penn study finds

Vaping blood vessels

FDA proposes larger, visual health warnings for cigarette packs, advertisements

fda cigarette warning

Delaware's law bumping the state smoking age to 21 is now in effect

delaware smoking age law

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