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What is “tobacco-free” nicotine?

These flavored products, which have yet to face significant regulation, are prompting concerns about youth use and causing confusion.

Truth Initiative® awards five truth IMPACT scholarships to young adult leaders making a difference in their communities

Recipients from California, Georgia, Maine, North Dakota and Texas are taking action to address youth nicotine use and its impact on mental health, social ju

Young people share how nicotine use affected their stress

Many young people who know the cycle of nicotine withdrawal from vaping firsthand have shared with truth what it’s like.

JUUL on YouTube

Researchers found more than 8,000 JUUL-related videos that received a total of 260 million views over the 3-year period from 2016 to 2018.

Thrive: A Youth Mental-Health Summit

Vaping content on Instagram violates federal regulations and social media platform policies

Influencer content that promotes vaping on Instagram frequently violates both federal advertising regulations and the social media platform’s policies.

2023 state fact sheets

A look at the most recent tobacco use statistics in each state, including cigarette use, economics and state tobacco laws.

Read this before trying to quit smoking ‘cold turkey’

Quitting “cold turkey” has a low success rate due to the nature of addiction — addiction undermines willpower, or the ability to control impulses through dec

Surgeon General joins Truth Initiative Impact Series to discuss nicotine and mental health

The latest Truth Initiative Impact Series, “Exposing Vaping as a Mental Health Issue,” was first broadcast as part of a larger session at The Atlantic Festiv

Youth vaping, smoking & nicotine use

How e-cigarette brands are trying to link vaping with mental health

As youth e-cigarette use remains at epidemic levels and many young people report mental health concerns amid the pandemic, these marketing themes can be seen

E-cigarette CEOs admit under oath that they do not know all the harmful health effects of nicotine

Chief executives of major e-cigarette companies admitted, under oath, that their products can lead to nicotine addiction and that they do not know all of the