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A new study reveals the risks of vaping in non-smoking teenagers.
About one in 10 Americans say they sometimes smoke, often in social settings. Many think it’s not so bad for them. A new study has some scary findings, when it comes to matters of the heart.
Personal stories about what helped people quit smoking can be misleading, and aren’t strong evidence.
Young people are three times more likely to smoke if they’ve tried e-cigarettes first.
The recent decision to effectively ban e-cigarettes will hurt poor and disadvantaged smokers the most.
E-cigarettes remain effectively banned in Australia because advocates’ evidence has failed to convince the Therapeutic Goods Administration.
Classing e-cigarettes as quit smoking aids could help rebrand the tobacco industry as a legitimate player in health policy. Here’s why we should be concerned.
The effects of long-term tobacco smoking on our mental faculties such as memory and concentration are only now becoming known.
Requiring low-nicotine cigarettes sounds good, but it’s not the answer. Policy makers instead should speed up the support of safer, satisfying forms of nicotine and tobacco.
In 2012, in the early days of the rise of e-cigarettes, Kingsley Wheaton, Director of Corporate and Regulatory Affairs at British American Tobacco, said “Our core business is, and will remain in, tobacco…
Experts are petitioning the TGA to remove nicotine from the Poisons Standard so e-cigarettes can legally be used to quit smoking.
New evidence gets to the heart of their cardio-vascular impact.
A core platform of the massive promotion of e-cigarettes has been the argument that because these products involve no combustion but only vapourisation, they must be substantially less dangerous than smoked…
A new report has found electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are much safer than smoking and has encouraged their widespread use among smokers.
Scotland has just joined the growing list of countries getting tough on the vapes. Here’s why the libertarians should pipe down.
Vaping has given governments a huge opportunity to cajole cigarette companies towards better public health.
Federal officials could give the FDA authority to develop e-cigarette regulations. But developing regulations that maximize their benefits and minimize their risks is harder than it looks.
The central arguments made for the importance of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are that they are an exceptionally good way to quit smoking and that they represent trivial risk to health compared…
Doctors can now prescribe e-cigarettes as a quitting tool but the benefits of vaping may have been overstated.
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Tobacco treatment, UNSW Sydney
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