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 smokers in 2000. By 2020, the ...
Menthol use has increased over the past decade among U.S. adults who smoke cigarettes, according to a study released by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and The City University of ...
A new study on mentholated cigarette use in the U.S. has found an increase in menthol cigarette smoking among young adults and concludes that efforts to reduce smoking likely are being thwarted by the ...
NEW YORK — The New York State Department of Health released a report showing persistent disparities in menthol cigarette use, highlighting the impact of aggressive tobacco industry marketing of ...
Tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S., killing over 480,000 people annually. Nicotine—the identified drug in tobacco—is highly addictive, and flavors enhance nicotine’s ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is moving forward with plans to ban menthol cigarettes and all flavored cigars—policies that agency officials say could help prevent some of the roughly 500 ...