Category: Smoking

Smoking

Joint Smoking of Marijuana and Cigarettes Escalates Emphysema Risk

New research challenges the common belief about marijuana's harmlessness, exploring its combined effects with cigarette smoking on lung health.

Smoking

Vaping Raises Asthma Risk in Adolescents, Even Nonsmokers

Vaping elevates the risk of asthma in adolescents who haven't smoked traditional tobacco products, demonstrating that vaping increases the risk of asthma independently from conventional tobacco use, according to new research.

Smoking

Many Long-term Smokers Have Lung Disease Not Captured by Current Definitions

A UC San Francisco-led study finds the current definition of chronic tobacco-related lung diseases leaves patients undiagnosed and untreated.

Tobacco

Smoking Rates Declined During COVID-19 Pandemic

Cigarette smoking prevalence in adults declined from 14% in 2019 to 12% in 2021, an estimated 5.7 million decline in the number of adults who currently smoke.

Vaping & E-Cigarettes

FDA Blocks 6,500 Flavored E-cigarette Products from 10 Companies

The companies' premarket tobacco product applications, which were for a variety of flavored e-cigarette products, did not provide sufficient evidence to show that permitting the marketing of these products would be appropriate for the protection of the public health, according to the FDA.

Nicotine Alternatives

Smoking and Vaping Have Similar Cardiovascular Harms

The cardiovascular effects of cigarettes and e-cigarettes are strikingly similar, and these harmful effects on blood vessel function are likely caused by airway irritation due to inhalation of a foreign substance.