Smoking Cessation News

The FDA has ordered Juul Labs to stop selling e-cigarettes and vaping products on the U.S. market, the agency announced on Thursday.

The action to reduce nicotine levels would fit in with President Joe Biden’s goal of reducing cancer death rates by half over 25 years.

Health care groups hailed the proposal as a critical step to keep cigarettes out of the mouths of children and Black Americans, who are particularly likely to smoke menthol tobacco products.

According to a new study, using low-intensity electric or magnetic impulses helped people go without smoking cigarettes.

Cigarettes will be removed from some stores in Arkansas, California, Florida, and New Mexico, the Wall Street Journal reports.

From 2019 to 2020, the percentage of adults who use any type of tobacco product decreased from 21% to 19%.

The agency said it would soon announce whether other big-name brands can continue to sell their products in this country.

A new study finds e-cigarette and hookah water pipe users may be at greater risk than tobacco cigarette smokers for cancers of the nose, sinuses and throat.

More than 100 flavored vaping products with enticing flavors are still sold through the five top online e-cigarette retailers.

A new study warns that vaping triggers the same gene regulation changes that smoking does, so it may raise the risk of cancer and other serious diseases.

This is the first study to look at whether cigarette smokers can switch to electronic cigarettes without relapsing to smoking within one year.

The permission to sell was granted to R.J. Reynolds for three of its Vuse tobacco-flavored vaping products.

The FDA has ordered millions of e-cigarette products off the public market while saying it needs more time to review vape products sold by leading retailers like Juul, the country’s largest e-cigarette maker.

New research suggests a technique called noninvasive brain stimulation may help hardcore smokers cut back.

Pfizer is suspending distribution of the anti-smoking treatment Chantix after heightened levels of the carcinogen N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) were found in some lots of the pills.

The action comes after public health groups petitioned and then sued the agency to force it to address menthol.

Raising the legal age for buying tobacco is effective in cutting teen smoking rates, a new study shows.

Experts raise concerns about the uptick in tobacco use and emphasize the urgent need to reverse it.

Twenty-one states currently allow employers to refuse hiring if a person uses nicotine, and in 17 states testing for nicotine prior to hiring is legal.

The White House originally proposed a ban on flavored e-cigarettes -- thought to be especially enticing to teens -- back in September.  But since then, the Administration had seemed to bow to industry and political pressures and back away from such a ban.

The measure was supported by many tobacco and e-cigarette companies.

Just under 14% of American adults smoked cigarettes in 2018, a dramatic decline from the 42% adult smoking rate in 1965, according to researchers with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Researchers say use of e-cigarettes negatively affects risk factors for heart disease in ways similar to traditional tobacco cigarettes:

The White House's proposed move is not the first in the United States: About a third of states have already raised their sales age to 21. But federal law still puts the age at 18.

Juul has already stopped sales of its mango, creme, fruit and cucumber products, which account for 10% of its sales.