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5 ways cigarette litter impacts the environment

Worldwide, about 4.5 trillion cigarettes are littered each year. Here’s a look at how that impacts the environment.

Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month: Embracing differences builds tobacco-free legacies

Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2016 provides an important framework when considering the fight to end tobacco use.

Boston raises tobacco-buying age to 21

By raising the legal age of sale for tobacco to 21, Boston lawmakers have found an apt way to close out a year when teen cigarette use again reached historic

Graphic Cigarette Warnings Proposed by FDA Are Long Overdue, But Agency Must Meet March 2020 Deadline to Finalize Them

The graphic cigarette health warnings proposed by the FDA are a critical and long-overdue step forward in the nation’s battle against tobacco use.

Where we stand: Child-resistant packaging and warning labels for ends

Prompted by increases in calls to poison control centers related to exposure of children to nicotine, in late June 2015, the Food and Drug Administration (FD

CDC's anti-smoking ad campaign returns for sixth year

Launched in 2012, Tips™ is a national tobacco education campaign that profiles both former smokers and non-smokers living with long-term health effects cause

Three ways to support loved ones while they quit smoking

If someone you care about is quitting tobacco, it can be difficult to know what to say and do. Here are three tips for people supporting a quitter.

Policy leadership and accountability

We drive policy change to advance public health, address inequities, and empower lives free from the physical, mental, and financial toll of nicotine dependence. 

We protect the public from a lifetime of nicotine addiction by advancing impactful policies. Through rigorous research and policy leadership, we act to reduce youth access to nicotine and expand access to cessation by combating the illegal e-cigarette market, removing youth-appealing flavored products, holding retailers accountable, and increasing access to cessation services.

#NoMentholMonday: Why menthol is a social justice issue

The marketing of menthol cigarettes toward African Americans is a social justice issue.

Consumers – even smokers – want cigarettes out of pharmacies according to new CDC data

Sixty-six percent of U.S. adults favor a ban on tobacco products in pharmacy stores, including nearly half of smokers

“E-cig” or “vape”? Why semantics matter

If someone is puffing on an electronic device, is that product called an e-cig; vape; hookah pen?

Researchers reviewed nearly 700 e-cigarette studies. What did they find?

E-cigarettes have altered the market for tobacco products in recent years, leaving many lingering questions: How harmful are they?