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    How tobacco companies are enlisting music artists like Cardi B to promote tobacco products

    A review of the Swisher Sweets Artist Project examines how the cigar brand sponsors music events to promote its products and reach its target audience.

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    A blueprint for tobacco control in indigenous communities

    While American Indian and Alaska Native communities have a history of traditional tobacco practices, they’ve also been hit hard by the commercial tobacco ind

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    10 popular shows with the most smoking

    Tobacco appears to be making an unwelcome comeback on the small screen, with shows “Stranger Things,” “The Walking Dead” and “Orange Is the New Black” being

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    5 ways tobacco is normalized in entertainment and pop culture

    As smoking becomes less socially acceptable and tobacco use rates continue to decline, entertainment media and pop culture don’t often reflect that reality,

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    The renormalization of tobacco use on streaming content services

    A new Truth Initiative report, "While You Were Streaming," illuminates a renormalization of tobacco use, especially on streaming content services s

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    Why racial and ethnic discrimination matters in the tobacco fight

    Racial and ethnic minorities exposed to tobacco marketing and who also report experiencing discrimination are more likely to smoke.

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    The 3 main reasons youth use e-cigarettes

    Why are middle and high school students using e-cigarettes in the first place?

  8. Report Report Research & Resources

    While you were streaming

    New research from Truth Initiative reveals that 79 percent of the shows most popular with young people depict smoking prominently.

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    Q&A: How youth activists are pressuring Walgreens to stop selling tobacco

    We spoke with current and former youth activism fellows about their visit to this year’s Walgreens shareholders meeting and why getting rid of tobacco in pha

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    Comprehensive review provides further proof that FDA should ban menthol cigarettes

    A review of more than 80 studies on menthol tobacco products provides additional proof that the FDA should ban the products.

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    Smokeless Tobacco

    Smokeless tobacco one page infographic

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    As smoking rates decline, Hollywood isn’t getting the picture

    The majority of the 2018 nominees for Academy Awards® in major categories – 86 percent – feature tobacco imagery on screen