A new FDA survey finds some positive trends among young people in the US, though new forms of nicotine use like pouches have become a bit more popular.
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Smoking isn’t back. New data show Australia’s tobacco control laws are working.
A few US towns have banned cigarette sales to anyone born after a specific date, and several states are considering this path. A psychologist explains why such measures often face stiff resistance.
The alleged kingpin of Australia’s illicit tobacco trade has been arrested - does this mean the end of the so-called ‘tobacco wars’?
Public health messaging focused solely on the health risks related to using tobacco products misses the mark with some teens.
Tobacco companies say that heated tobacco products have fewer health risks than cigarettes, but there is little clear data to support that claim.
Using varenicline can double, or even triple, a person’s chances of quitting smoking.
Since the Victorian age, tobacco has been a form of stress relief.
University students are particularly at high risk of depression. One global study suggests 21% of students have major depressive disorder.
Reductions in the affordability of cigarettes will ensure significant reductions in tobacco use.
When the age of sale was increased from 16 to 18 in 2007 in the UK, there was a fall in youth smoking rates.
The number of smokers in Africa is projected to increase.
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Research Officer, Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products, University of Cape Town
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Assistant Professor of Health Promotion and Policy, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor in Criminology, Deakin University
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Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Professor, Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Economics and Director of the Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer in Modern British History, The Open University
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Associate Professor, Life Sciences, University of South Wales
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Behavioural Medicine, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor of Psychology, City College of New York
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Associate Professor of Psychology, City College of New York
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Professor of Psychology, Dickinson College
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Public Health, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy and Global Public Health, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford