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    Nicotine and the young brain

    Nicotine is harmful to developing brains and its use during adolescence can disrupt the formation of brain circuits that control attention, learning, and sus

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    How the tobacco industry’s new products could be leading to more nicotine addiction

    Public health leaders and researchers joined Truth Initiative to discuss the proliferation of new tobacco products that threaten to reverse years of progress

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    How the tobacco industry uses sponsored content in major media outlets to shift public perception

    The tobacco industry is taking advantage of marketing channels that are still open to them to remake their reputations by promoting their products as “safer

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    Vape shops respond to tightening e-cigarette regulations with more online marketing and expansion to CBD products

    Vape shops are expanding their product lines to include CBD products and building up their online marketing in response to tightening restrictions on e-cigar

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    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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    Young activists want the White House to know vaping nicotine is a mental health issue

    Young people nationwide are mobilizing to demand that the White House, the Food and Drug Administration, and other decision makers declare youth vaping nicot

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    Tobacco industry uses flawed study to oppose flavored tobacco restrictions

    Recent research finds that after flavored tobacco sales restrictions went into effect in 2018 in Oakland, California, high school youth vaping and smoking de

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    Black D.C. neighborhoods have greater marketing for flavored tobacco products, including cigars

    The targeted marketing of flavored tobacco products like flavored cigars presents another way tobacco is a social justice issue.

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    How a free vaping prevention curriculum can help middle schools

    Here’s why Vaping: Know the truth is meeting an urgent need.

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    Menthol e-cigarette ads rose after FDA guidance restricted some, but not all flavored e-cigarettes

    The proportion of menthol-flavored e-cigarette ads sent by email more than doubled from 22.5% to 52.2% after FDA guidance restricted some, but not all flavor

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    Tobacco imagery lights up Oscar-nominated movies, including 80% of Best Picture nominees

    Eight of the 10 films nominated for Best Picture at the 2022 Oscars and more than half (61%) of all this year’s Oscar-nominated feature films contain tobacco