International Updates Archive

Teen e-cigarette use linked to eventual smoking

1 February 2019 Linda Carroll Reuters: (Reuters Health) – Among teens, using e-cigarettes may raise the risk of progressing to cigarette smoking, a new U.S. study suggests. Overall, adolescents who used e-cigarettes before trying any

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Revealed: the free-market groups

23 January 2019 Jessica Glenza The Guardian More than 100 free-market thinktanks from North America to Europe and south Asia took positions helpful to the tobacco industry or donations, Guardian investigation shows How tobacco industry

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Juul’s Convenient Smoke Screen

11 January 2019Kevin RooseThe New York Times Juul Labs, the company behind the insanely popular vaping device, has a message for the nation’s estimated 37.8 million adult smokers: It really, really, really cares about them.

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E-cigarettes—new product, old tricks

December 2018 Editorial The Lancet Tobacco smoking cessation represents one of the most successful public health initiatives in the world, with smoking prevalence at its lowest during the past decade according to recent WHO estimates. However,

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