Vaping is more common than cigarette smoking among young people but there are a variety of risks to users.
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Allowing pharmacists to dispense nicotine vapes without a prescription would ensure people who are using them to quit smoking could access them legally, while preventing inappropriate sales to youth.
Influencers could play an important role in encouraging teenagers not to vape.
Nicotine pouches are placed between the lip and gum, and users absorb the nicotine in their mouths. Although these products don’t contain tobacco, this doesn’t mean they’re safe.
If the scheme isn’t successful, some people may continue using illicit vapes, or to switch to traditional cigarettes.
Vapes will be harder to access from today, but the restrictions are staged, with some due to roll out later in the year. Here’s what’s changing.
A growing body of evidence shows vaping is not without harms.
Criticism and lecturing won’t help. This will.
How providing information on the health risks of vaping through expert advice and personal testimonies can help steer students away from using e-cigarettes.
It might be tempting to fly off the handle and deliver a lecture on the dangers of vaping. But here’s what might actually work.
South Africa was once a leader in tobacco use control but has since fallen behind, and smoking prevalence has steadily increased.
The nearly half-billion-dollar settlement orders Juul to tamp down its targeting of the teen market.
In places around the world that lack restrictions to combat the problem, tobacco companies are using marketing strategies aimed at children, like displaying tobacco products at kids’ eye level.
The proposed standard would lower the nicotine content in cigarettes and cigars by 95% – a public health proposal that could prevent millions from becoming smokers in the first place.
E-cigarettes are facing calls for complete bans on their sale. A tobacco addiction researcher explores the balance between vaping’s harm to teens and potential use as a tool for quitting smoking.
Growing interest in psychedelics has spurred new research decades after hallucinogenics were tested in Saskatchewan in the 1950s. And an unassuming common fish is proving a useful test subject.
Is heated tobacco a lower-risk alternative to cigarettes?
From October 1, Australians will only be able to buy e-cigarettes containing nicotine if they have a prescription from a doctor. But there’s another evidence-based way to help more smokers quit.
Despite being widely viewed as a safer alternative to tobacco, e-cigarettes aren’t harmless, especially to adolescents. But social media is rife with glossy content that makes vaping look fun and cool.
From 2021, Australians will no longer be able to buy nicotine-containing e-fluids, without both a prescription and someone licensed to import it for them, raising fears many will go back to smoking.
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Assistant Professor of Health Promotion and Policy, UMass Amherst
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Director, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame and ARC Future Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Emeritus Professor, National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford
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Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy and Global Public Health, University of Michigan
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Professor, Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Public Health, Flinders University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Public Health, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Rutgers University
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Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Business Economics, University of Bath
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Professor of Health Psychology and Director of Tobacco Studies, UCL
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Associate, Office for Science and Society, McGill University
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Bath