Category: Smoking

Smoking

Capping Nicotine Levels Could Prevent Millions of Deaths

A Rutgers Health study indicates that capping nicotine levels could eliminate smoking disparities and provide a trillion-dollar boost to the US economy.

Smoking

Smartphone-based Financial Incentives to Help Pregnant Women Quit Smoking

A smartphone-based program uses financial rewards to improve smoking cessation rates among pregnant individuals in rural areas.

Smoking

One-Third of US Adults Say Marijuana Improves Sleep Quality

New AASM survey data shows men and younger adults are most likely to report better sleep with marijuana use.

Tobacco

E-cigarette Taxes Reduced Vaping Rates Without Increasing Adult Smoking

Higher prices for vaping products effectively reduced use without driving adults toward traditional cigarettes.

Vaping & E-Cigarettes

Teen Vaping Curbed by Public Health, EVALI News Reporting

2019 was a turning point in youth vaping, as aggressive public health campaigns and extensive news coverage of e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury (EVALI) effectively curbed teen use.

Nicotine Alternatives

Positive Data for Inhaled Nicotine Replacement Therapy

A Phase 1 clinical trial of Qnovia's RespiRx handheld inhalable nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) revealed cigarette-comparable nicotine delivery with favorable safety profile.