Tag: smokers
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Nation & World
Want to quit smoking? There’s the e-cigarette
A new study provides critical population-level evidence demonstrating that using e-cigarettes daily helps U.S. smokers to quit smoking cigarettes.
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Nation & World
E-cigarettes’ usefulness for quitting smoking uncertain
A new study examines the uncertainty of whether e-cigarettes can help smokers quit and the urgent need for randomized, controlled trials.
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Nation & World
Right this way! See it! Taste it!
Former FDA commissioner David Kessler says overeating has to be attacked the same way that tobacco was in the past, by making it socially unacceptable.
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Nation & World
Recent longitudinal study: Smoking is addictive, quitting is contagious
Over the past 30 years, the number of smokers in the United States has steadily decreased — a tribute to the efforts of public-health workers everywhere. And while this fact is indisputable, less obvious are the social and cultural forces that lead an individual to kick the habit.