Those of us interested in the health of Americans of all races write to support the FDA ban on menthol flavoring in tobacco products. Such a ban will potentially prevent thousands of deaths per year from cancer, lung disease, as well as cardiovascular disease.
Those of us concerned about health disparities agree that the time has come to ban menthol.
In the late 1980s, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company made plans to market a new brand of menthol cigarette, Uptown.
Philip Morris International’s call for a smoke-free world echoes cigarette makers’ past efforts to burnish their nicotine-stained image, but what if this time they’re serious?
On Jan. 11, 1964, at a packed press conference for over 200 reporters at the U.S. State Department in Washington, DC, Surgeon General Luther L. Terry released what would become one of the most important and most widely cited documents in the annals of medicine: “Smoking and Health—Report of the Advisory Committee of the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service.”
2023 marks the 110th anniversary of the founding of the American Cancer Society.
Oral nicotine pouches, a tobacco leaf-free product marketed as an alternative to cigarettes, do little to curb current smokers’ nicotine cravings, according to a study.
This exhibition traces the history of efforts by the tobacco industry to encourage women to smoke cigarettes.
UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center established the state’s first-ever Tobacco Cessation Policy Research Center. The Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, a state research agency administered by the UC Office of the President, is providing $3.7 million in funding to operate the center for four years.
Depression and anxiety are thought to increase a person’s risk of developing cancer, but research results have been inconclusive. In an analysis of multiple studies from the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Norway, and Canada, investigators found that depression and anxiety are not linked to higher risks for most types of cancer among this population. The analysis is published in Cancer.
