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There are many products on the market designed to help you quit smoking. One example is the nicotine patch, which is available over the counter at most pharmacies and is a cost-effective and low-effort method to curb a smoking habit. Nicotine patches act as a replacement for cigarettes, cigars, and other nicotine-containing products. They do this by slowly releasing small amounts of nicotine to curb cravings.
Smoking is difficult to quit because nicotine — the active compound found in tobacco — is addictive. That's because nicotine causes the brain to release dopamine — a feel-good hormone that causes people to feel a rush or buzz.
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Many of the regulations and requirements about the impending move to prescription-only supply of e-cigarette products are still being determined, a Senate hearing was told recently.
Therapeutic Goods Administration director, Adjunct Professor John Skerritt, was grilled at length by members of the Senate Community Affairs Committee at an Estimates hearing held on 1 June.
Among the questions Dr Skerritt fielded were ones about state and territory tobacco licensing regimes.
Senator Eric Abetz (Lib, Tas) asked Dr Skerritt about whether pharmacists would need a tobacco licence when the products move to Prescription-Only from 1 October.
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Life insurance quotes are largely based on your age, overall health, habits and lifestyle choices. If you are one of the 8.1 million American adults who uses electronic cigarettes, more commonly known as vapes, it is likely to affect your life insurance premium in a number of ways. Nicotine use is one of the biggest red flags that life insurance companies look for on your application. Vaping can be detrimental to your health and many insurance companies are wary of insuring vapers due to the harmful physical effects of nicotine and the complications that can arise. [...]
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IT'S no secret that smoking is bad for your health - it's one of the biggest causes of death and illness in the UK.
That's why the Government has signed up to a pledge to make the nation smoke-free by 2030. In 2007 the smoking ban came into force, making it illegal to smoke inside pubs, restaurants, nightclubs, work spaces, anywhere in the country.
And last week, it emerged that seven councils in England have taken that ban one step further.
Oxfordshire became the first to say they will ban smoking outside in public places.
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Although the number of teens who use e-cigarettes has dropped significantly, new research suggests that vaping rates are still too high.
"This study underscores that flavored e-cigarettes, especially JUUL, have caused the epidemic of youth e-cigarette use and nicotine addiction in the U.S. and shows why the [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] and other policymakers must act now to eliminate all flavored e-cigarettes," said Matthew Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
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A cascade of inaction characterizes Alberta’s approach to preventing young people from vaping and becoming smokers — just when Alberta should act.
Vapers are five times more likely to contract COVID than non-vapers. Dual users (those who vape and smoke), are seven times more likely to become sick with COVID. The higher COVID infection rate might be explained by how vaping makes lungs weaker, the increased hand-to-mouth action of vaping, vape sharing and the possibility of infected vapour clouds being inhaled by others.
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The FDA has emphatically stated that enforcement of the ban, which may take years to implement given likely legal challenges, will only be targeted at manufacturers and distributors, not individuals in possession of menthol cigarettes. But there is no guarantee, especially given how law enforcement operates in communities of color.
Reflecting the complexity of the issue, the planned menthol ban has sharply divided advocates who would be allies on other issues. [...]
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Recently, a research group led by Chu Yannan and Huang Chaoqun from the Institute of Health & Medical Technology of the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) developed an effective method for on-site detection of methamphetamine (MA) in the presence of nicotine via homemade ion mobility spectrometry. [...] MA is a highly addictive stimulant that affects the central nervous system. The on-site rapid detection of trace amounts of MA and screening illicit drugs in clandestine laboratories are important for drug enforcement agencies and the forensic community in general. [...]
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Many adults with a history of cardiovascular disease (CVD) continue to smoke cigarettes and/or use other tobacco products, despite knowing it increases their risk of having another cardiovascular event, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association [...] To understand how many adults with CVD continue to use tobacco products, investigators reviewed survey responses from the large, national Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study (PATH) to compare tobacco use rates over time. [...]
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British American Tobacco raised its annual revenue growth forecast on Tuesday as the cigarette maker’s focus on e-cigarettes and tobacco-heating devices pays off, sending its shares up 2%.
The London-listed company said it expected revenue growth of more than 5% at constant currencies, above its previous range of 3% to 5% for the year to December. It stuck to its growth expectation for adjusted earnings per share in the mid-single digit range.
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MPs have revealed plans to eradicate smoking in the UK amid warnings the ‘tobacco epidemic’ will likely kill more people this year than Covid-19.
The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Smoking and Health urged the government to commit to the actions needed to ensure the country is smoke-free by 2030.
It highlights comments by Professor Chris Whitty who recently warned that this year and last year will likely have seen more deaths from smoking-related illness than from coronavirus.
The report comes a week after five councils in England banned smoking outside in cafes, pubs and restaurants.
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Over the past few months a spate of high school principals in New Zealand have spoken out about a hazy, sickly-sweet 'epidemic' emerging in their schools: vaping, or e-cigarettes. Vaping is held up by anti-smoking advocates as a game-changer in helping people addicted to tobacco wean themselves off it.
And while statistics show smoking is on the decline throughout New Zealand, there is evidence that vaping is enjoying an ascendency.
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Electronic cigarettes first arrived on the U.S. retail scene in 2006, and since then, this other tobacco product (OTP) segment has gained a substantial customer base within the convenience store channel.
The addition of open-system vaporizers and pod devices further expanded inventory selection of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS). Early on, ENDS of all types primarily appealed to a younger clientele, especially millennials and, eventually, Generation Z. While that continues to hold true to a degree, another trend revealed itself as consumers became more aware of the OTP: some traditional cigarette users switched to vape.
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In the summer of 2018, San Francisco residents voted overwhelmingly to ban the sale of flavored nicotine vaping products (as well as flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes). By January 2019, when the prohibition took effect, almost every retailer in the city was immediately compliant. It had been an expensive fight, with companies that sell vaping products spending tens of millions of dollars on one side and billionaire Michael Bloomberg, a longtime anti-smoking funder who has since turned his abstinence-only approach to vaping, bankrolling the opposition with millions of his own.
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The owner of Lucky Strike and Camel has raised its annual growth forecasts after more smokers turned to vapes and electronic cigarettes.
British American Tobacco said yesterday that it had attracted about 1.4 million new customers to its supposedly less harmful products, with about 14.9 million consumers using “new category” nicotine devices. The world’s second largest tobacco maker said that its lower-risk products were sold in 53 countries. Growth in the segment continued to accelerate, it said, adding that it had won market share from rivals.
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Smoker’s flu is a set of symptoms that people may experience when they stop smoking tobacco or using nicotine. The symptoms of withdrawal from nicotine and tobacco can include symptoms like coughing, fatigue, headache, and sore throat that are associated with the common cold or influenza.
About 90% of people who smoke are addicted to nicotine, and most of them will experience some symptoms of withdrawal when they stop using nicotine.1 Symptoms of smoker’s flu can be even more prominent if you quit cold turkey. Withdrawal symptoms, including smoker’s flu, tend to peak within one week of quitting but can linger for up to a month.
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The latest EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) report makes no attempt to understand why the one EU country where snus is legal also has the EU’s lowest smoking rates.
The TPD 2021 Application Report, published by the European Commission on May 20 as required under the Directive, singles out novel tobacco products as posing “specific regulatory challenges”.
The report describes the market for tobacco and nicotine products as “more diverse and challenging to regulate”, claiming that new product categories “circumvent existing regulations” and can’t be fully addressed by existing TPD provisions.
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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the Food and Drug Administration’s regulation of electronic cigarettes and vape pens, turning away an opportunity to put broad new restrictions on the power of federal administrative agencies.
The appeal by a Mississippi vape shop and an industry trade group sought to invoke the so-called non-delegation doctrine, a sparingly used constitutional rule that says Congress must give clear guidance to an agency before handing off its legislative responsibilities.
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In 2018, Caleb Mintz sensed something wasn’t right about a presentation given at his school, the renowned Dwight School on the Upper West Side.
Someone had been brought in to supposedly teach Mintz, then a ninth-grader, and his classmates about the dangers of tobacco and vaping. But the speaker had been sent by Juul Labs, the company behind the discreet vaping device that Mintz and nearly all of his friends had tried.