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News Articles: Smoking

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  • Health Care

Report: Georgia policymakers must increase access to early screening for lung cancer to save lives

The report also presents opportunities for Georgia to further improve survival by increasing access to lung cancer screening, which can detect the disease at an earlier stage when it's more curable, and biomarker testing, which can help influence treatment options because not all lung cancers are the same.

November 21, 2024
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
The packaging on Kool brand's "non-menthol" cigarettes and its existing menthols are very similar. Anti-smoking activists argue this is a way to get around any ban on menthol cigarettes by appealing to consumers who like to smoke menthols.

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  • Health

With a federal menthol ban looming, tobacco companies push 'non-menthol' substitutes

The alternatives have a similar taste, packaging and marketing. Anti-smoking activists say this is a way to get around state and federal bans.

March 21, 2024
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By:
  • Yuki Noguchi
Images from some of our most popular global stories of 2023 (left to right): A woman from Brazil's Awa people holds her bow and arrow after a hunt; an artificial intelligence program made this fake photo to fulfill a request for "doctors help children in Africa" — AI added the giraffe; researchers are learning that a stranger's hello can do more than just brighten your day.

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  • Global Health

Our top global posts might change how you think about hunters, AI and hellos

Our most popular global stories of 2023 offer insights into the stereotypes of male hunters/female gatherers, the biases of AI, the best way to end poverty and the impact of a stranger's greeting.

December 17, 2023
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By:
  • Marc Silver
Teresa Butler visits Trish and Glen Johnston at their home in Christchurch, New Zealand, to support Trish, 79, who gave up smoking four years ago. Trish is Māori and Glen is pākehā — a white New Zealander.

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  • Global Health

It's one of the world's toughest anti-smoking laws. The Māori see a major flaw

New Zealand has declared war on tobacco with a remarkable new law. The indigenous Māori population, with the country's highest smoking rate, has a lot to gain. But they have a bone of contention.

October 03, 2023
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By:
  • Simar Bajaj
The Poet Life is guiding teens to use poetry to encourage others to stop smoking

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  • Agents for Change

The Poet Life aims to stop kids from smoking through the art of poetry

The Poet Life aims to stop kids from smoking, vaping and doing hookah, by using the art of slam poetry.

August 03, 2023
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  • Leah Fleming
A closeup of a person's nose, mouth and hand while smoking a cigarette

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  • Health

This is how Georgia lawmakers are balancing public health and tax hikes on smokers

Advocates of House Bill 191 argue higher tobacco taxes will reduce the number of smokers and save on health care costs, but other anti-smoking advocates say we need to do more to combat the physical, economical, and racist effects.

February 27, 2023
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
The FDA hopes that a new limit on nicotine levels in cigarettes will help people stop smoking or avoid the habit altogether.

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  • Your Health

The FDA knows nicotine is addictive. It wants to regulate it for the first time

The Food and Drug Administration is poised to set a maximum nicotine level in cigarettes and some other tobacco products, looking to make them less addictive and wean smokers off the habit.

June 22, 2022
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  • Bill Chappell
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  • Health

Cigarette sales in 2020 climbed for the first time in 2 decades. A GSU study examines why

Stress associated with COVID-19 is as much a part of the current atmosphere as is the virus. That stress contributed to the sales of cigarettes rose for the first time in 20 years, according to a new study from Georgia State University. 

December 22, 2021
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Manufacturers sold 203.7 billion cigarettes in 2020, up 0.4% from a year earlier, the Federal Trade Commission says.

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  • Health

Cigarette sales went up last year for the first time in 20 years

The Federal Trade Commission says sales in 2020 were up slightly, and analysts say the increase was due to the coronavirus pandemic. But the gain looks unlikely to represent a long-term trend.

October 27, 2021
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
A pack of Marlboro cigarettes at a store in Miami. Philip Morris International's CEO Jacek Olczak said the company will stop selling Marlboro cigarettes in the U.K. in the next 10 years.

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  • Business

Marlboro Maker CEO Says The Company Plans To Stop Selling Smokes In The U.K.

Tobacco giant Philip Morris International is pivoting away from cigarettes. Part of its reinvention plan is to stop selling cigarettes in the United Kingdom in the next 10 years.

July 26, 2021
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
A reader wants to know about smoking's impact on the vaccine but didn't specify cigarettes, e-cigs ... or marijuana. So we'll discuss all three.

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  • Global Health

Coronavirus FAQs: Does Smoking Blunt The Vaccine? What About Painkillers?

A reader wants to know about smoking's impact on the vaccine but didn't specify cigarettes, e-cigs ... or marijuana. So we'll discuss all three. Also: A refresher in painkiller/vaccine interaction.

March 19, 2021
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By:
  • Pranav Baskar
A man smokes in the street in Madrid on Friday after Spain's health minister announced curbs on smoking outdoors in an effort to contain a resurgence of COVID-19.

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  • Europe

Spain Cracks Down On Outdoor Drinking, Smoking In Renewed Push Against COVID-19

Spanish authorities announced the new measures as they confront a new wave of COVID-19 after tamping down the disease months ago.

August 14, 2020
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By:
  • Scott Neuman

Atlanta's Airport Prepares For Smoking Ban To Go Into Effect

Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is preparing to go smoke free. It's closing all smoking rooms as of Jan. 2. The move comes after the...

December 18, 2019
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By:
  • Sophia Saliby

Smoking Is Down But Vaping Is Up, Lung Association Says, 'Quit Don't Switch'

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says cigarette smoking hit an all-time low in 2018, but vaping is on the rise, particularly among teens....

November 18, 2019
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  • Ellen Eldridge
A high school student uses a vaping device.

New Study Says Georgia Ranks Near The Bottom For Teen Smoking Prevention

Georgia ranks 47th in the nation when it comes to funding programs to prevent kids from using tobacco, according to a recent report that looks at what...

December 17, 2018
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  • Ellen Eldridge
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