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Tag: Gregory Connolly
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Nation & World
Nicotine letdown
Nicotine replacement therapies did not improve smokers’ chances of long-term cessation in a study by researchers at Harvard and UMass.
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Nation & World
The nicotine-candy connection
A new nicotine product, apparently designed to tide smokers over in places where they can’t light up, resembles some candy. It leads to fear among researchers that children will eat the pills and suffer poisoning.
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Nation & World
Researchers warn new, dissolvable nicotine products could lead to accidental poisoning in children and youths
A tobacco company’s new, dissolvable nicotine pellet–which is being sold as a tobacco product, but which in some cases resembles popular candies–could lead to accidental nicotine poisoning in children, according…
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Nation & World
Tobacco industry used cigarette menthol to recruit new adolescents and young adult smokers
Researchers at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have found that tobacco companies have deliberately adjusted menthol levels in cigarettes to recruit and addict young smokers by creating a milder…
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Nation & World
Smoke-free pubs keep Irish eyes smiling
A survey of air pollution levels in “Irish pubs” around the world has found that indoor air pollution in authentic Irish pubs in Ireland, where a smoke-free law has been…
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Nation & World
Cigarette manufacturers developed candy-flavored brands to target youth
Despite assurances from cigarette makers that they no longer target the youth market, Harvard School of Public Health researchers found that new brands are being marketed to young smokers and…
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Nation & World
Safer cigarettes would cut fire deaths if made available
Researchers at Harvard School of Public Health, funded by the American Legacy Foundation, compared the physical properties of cigarettes sold in New York with cigarettes of the same brands sold…