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Plant-Based Medication Helps People Quit Vaping in Trial

Eleven million U.S. adults use e-cigarettes to vape nicotine, and about half of them say that they want to stop, but many have trouble doing so because nicotine is an addictive drug.

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Move to increase age cigarettes can be sold

A proposal to increase the age cigarettes can be sold to people in Guernsey has been put forward. Deputies Peter Roffey and Lindsay de Sausmarez want Health and Social Care (HSC) to investigate increasing it from 18.

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Cytisinicline effective for e-cigarette cessation

Cytisinicline was associated with a greater rate of nicotine-containing e-cigarette cessation compared with placebo during 12 weeks of treatment and up to 4 weeks posttreatment, according to results from the phase 2 ORCA-VI trial.

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Stop teens from vaping? Yes. Pull them out of their classes over it? Hold on a minute | Opinion

In Texas there are at least four open lawsuits regarding injuries from electronic cigarettes exploding. According to research by a UNT Health Science Center dean there was an estimated 2,035 e-cigarette injuries in emergency rooms from 2015 to 2017. By Candi Bolden

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Vape liquids may release hundreds of toxic chemicals when inhaled, study finds

WATCH - A new study from Ireland has found that flavoured vapes may produce over 100 toxic chemicals that could cause immediate harm when inhaled. Global’s Joe Scarpelli finds out just what kind of harm vaping could be doing to your health – May 11, 2024

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Forget airline miles-Gen Z and millennials are obsessed with nicotine pouch Zyn's lucrative rewards program, which includes $400 Apple watches and $600 Dyson AirWraps

Dani Darlene was not a fan of her husband’s ZYN habit. Then she found out she could get an iPad out of it. For years, finding ZYN pouches and containers around the house was “the most irritating thing,” Darlene, a 24-year-old personal trainer, told Fortune. But after learning about the brand’s rewards program through TikTok in February, the irritation took on a different form.

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WHO wants 37pc hike in FED on cigarettes

ISLAMABAD: While the health ministry has proposed that the Federal Excise Duty on cigarettes be increased by 20 per cent, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has demanded it should be increased by 37 per cent to take the tax share of retail prices to 70 per cent as per international standards.

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Health activists for tobacco tax raise to control smoking

ISLAMABAD - Health activists have called for an immediate increase in tobacco taxes in Pakistan to protect the rights and health of children and the general public.

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