Articles for Tobacco Research

Illegal tobacco haul reaches 2023's total with four months to go
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Illegal tobacco haul reaches 2023's total with four months to go

Dutch News  

Customs and finance minister investigators have seized 120 million illegal cigarettes so far this year, the same amount as they discovered in 2023 as a whole, the Volkskrant has reported. In April, the price of a packet of 20 cigarettes rose to around €11, of which €7.81 is down to taxes, and research suggests the increase is leading more smokers …

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Poorest people in England ‘will not be smoke-free until after 2050’
1 year, 3 months ago

Poorest people in England ‘will not be smoke-free until after 2050’

The Independent  

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Here comes trouble: an anti-tobacco hero’s complicated legacy
3 years, 4 months ago

Here comes trouble: an anti-tobacco hero’s complicated legacy

Salon  

Not many scientists have fought harder against smoking than Stanton Glantz. "His research contributions in tobacco control are legendary," said Pam Ling, who succeeded Glantz as head of USCF's Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, at a campus event earlier this year. Glantz's 2014 article in JAMA Pediatrics was the first national study to show that e-cigarettes were a …

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Juul wanted to revolutionize vaping. It took a page from Big Tobacco’s chemical formulas
5 years, 1 month ago

Juul wanted to revolutionize vaping. It took a page from Big Tobacco’s chemical formulas

LA Times  

By the time Juul’s co-creator stood before a tech audience in April 2016, ads for the e-cigarette aimed to distance the product from a toxic past: “Our company has its roots in Silicon Valley, not in fields of tobacco.” But when James Monsees, a soon-to-be billionaire, projected a 30-year-old tobacco document on the screen behind him, he grinned. “Reynolds successfully …

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Juul knew teens were hooked to nicotine formula in e-cigarettes
5 years, 2 months ago

Juul knew teens were hooked to nicotine formula in e-cigarettes

Daily Mail  

Juul saw early warning signs that its products might be highly addictive, but ultimately let the e-cigarettes go to market without limiting their high dosage of nicotine, according to a Reuters investigation. Former Juul employees told Reuters that the company's tests suggested its e-cigarettes would so potent and addictive they would need to develop a way to limit its nicotine …

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