Although tobacco use has decreased, it is the leading cause of death in the United States. Implementing a combination of policy changes including clean indoor air laws, higher per-pack taxes, and cessation efforts are proven to reduce tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke.
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March 21, 2012 | New Public Health Post
The report is accompanied by a slideshow capturing images of tobacco advertising in key locations. One photo shows several large, prominent tobacco ads right above an ice cream cooler in a convenience store, and another shows fruit-flavored “cigaril ...
March 15, 2012 | New Public Health Post
The campaign ads will play for twelve weeks beginning Monday, March 19, and includes television, radio, billboards, magazines, newspapers, movie theatres, and online placements, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Among the stories: Brandon, a young man ...
March 8, 2012 | New Public Health Post
What if kids and teens never started smoking? They’d likely never start as adults and be extraordinarily less likely to die of lung cancer, heart disease, stroke and other conditions associated with smoking. That’s the gist of a report released toda ...
March 8, 2012 | New Public Health Post
A new report, Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults, released this morning, is the 31st report from the Office of the Surgeon General focused on tobacco use in the U.S. NewPublichHealth talked about the new report with Danny McGoldrick ...
February 8, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Victor DeNoble: Nicotine is actually vaporized—when you puff on a cigarette it becomes a droplet and then a gas and it goes into your lungs, and it’s a drug delivery device because the sole objective of smoking is to deliver nicotine and acetaldehyd ...
January 20, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Evidence is mounting to support the idea that proven prevention programs, especially those that help keep kids from smoking and help smokers quit, pay big returns by reducing health care costs: A newly published study shows that Massachusetts saved ...
January 6, 2012 | New Public Health Post
A new survey from Legacy finds that one in ten smokers kept their smoking status a secret from their health care provider. The survey of 3,500 U.S. adults also revealed that stigma against smoking was a factor for many of the patients who declined t ...
December 28, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Faces of Public Health is a recurring editorial series on NewPublicHealth featuring individuals working on the front lines of public health and helping keep people healthy and safe. Cigarette and alcohol use by teens are at their lowest point since ...
November 30, 2011 | New Public Health Post
A new report, “A Broken Promise to Our Children: The 1998 State Tobacco Settlement 13 Years Later,”on annual state use of tobacco company settlement funds shows another plummet in spending on tobacco control. This year’s report, released by a coalit ...
November 17, 2011 | New Public Health Post
About 20 percent of Americans now smoke, down from about the half of American adults who smoked in the 1960s. Changes in advertising, physician advice, advocacy messages and social norms are behind the millions who have already quit—but what’s with ...