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The economics of tobacco: How does where people live and work impact smoking?

While overall smoking rates have declined across the country, the pace of progress can be drastically slower, or nonexistent, depending on where people live

New report shows tobacco imagery continues to influence youth vaping initiation through on-screen entertainment most popular among 15- to 24-year-olds

Truth Initiative’s annual “While You Were Streaming” study illustrates impact of troubling trend on youth e-cigarette public health crisis

Gamechanger: Shifting from Tobacco Control to Ending the Industry’s Influence for Good

The concept of “endgame” is a strategy to move to a time when commercial tobacco and nicotine use – with the exception of FDA-approved medications – are no l

New Report Finds Major Geographic Smoking Disparities Across Midwest and Southern States

A new report shows how major geographic smoking disparities are impacting residents of 12 contiguous states throughout the Midwest and South, creating a regi

E-cigarette industry spends millions on discounts and sampling, practices that help recruit young users

Price incentives like discounts, coupons, and sampling can undercut the impact of excise taxes and other proven effective tobacco control measures

Youth activists call on decision-makers to declare vaping nicotine a mental health issue

Young activists gathered at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to call attention to the impact that vaping nicotine is having on youth mental health and

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New data show nearly 800,000 teens vaped for the first time in the past year, as FDA is set to announce first major decision to remove a popular e-cigarette brand

Many e-cigarettes have been allowed to stay on the market for years without undergoing a review of their public health impact, sparking an epidemic of youth

Depression Stick! is fake but vaping’s contribution to the youth mental health crisis is real

“It’s Messing with Our Heads” reveals important information about nicotine’s impact on mental wellbeing and more.

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Ending youth e-cigarette epidemic at risk if FDA doesn’t act fast to remove flavors and fully regulate products as industry quickly innovates

The latest NYTS data are consistent with other research which showed that youth e-cigarette use was significantly impacted during the height of the pandemic.