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In a 2019 TEDx Talk, Mitch Zeller, director of the Center for Tobacco Products at the FDA, takes us on an informative and fascinating walk through some of the history and statistics of smoking.  Zeller begins by pointing out that tobacco is responsible for more…

How much do you smoke by simply breathing? Depending on where you live, the amount of “smoking” you do varies. After reading a study that equated air pollution to number of cigarettes smoked, two developers created an app that will tell you how many cigarettes…

An article titled, “JUUL is Biggest Contributor to Vaping Problem in Nation’s Schools” was published in the September issue of “High School Today.”  It was written by Michael Nitti, superintendent of the Ewing Public Schools in Ewing, New Jersey, where he recounts the success he…

A recent study by Truth Initiative, a non-profit organization devoted to making tobacco a thing of the past, found extensive increases in the depiction of tobacco on popular TV shows. Many of those programs are targeted at young adults age 15 to 24. While the…

About 65% of smokers simply dispose of their spent cigarette butts by dropping them on the ground. When you consider that every year roughly five trillion (yes, I said trillion) cigarette butts are created; that’s a lot of butts being abandoned on sidewalks, left waiting…

A study published in the “Journal of the American Medical Association” found there is little difference in the success tobacco users have had between patches, lozenges or taking Pfizer’s Chantix to quit. The 1,086 people trying to quit smoking were separated into 3 groups; one…