The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday authorized the popular Zyn nicotine pouches for sale in the U.S., after studies by the agency determined Philip Morris International’s nicotine pouches posed a lower risk of cancer than traditional tobacco products like cigarettes.
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday proposed curbing the level of nicotine in cigarettes to make the products less addictive in an ambitious effort to help more Americans quit smoking.
According to the Global Burden of Disease 2024, Pakistan reported an annual death rate from smoking of 91.1 per 100,000 people, notably higher than the averages for South Asia (78.1) and the rest of the world (72.6), according to Gallup Pakistan, which is not affiliated with Gallup, the multinational analytics and advisory firm based in Washington DC.
Smoking can make it harder to succeed at work. It might reduce job performance, particularly in jobs that need physical fitness, since smoking can harm your physical health and ability to work effectively.
Research shows that using financial incentives significantly increases the chances of quitting smoking, with lasting effects even after the incentives end.
Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan has announced that he has quit smoking, sharing the news during the trailer launch of his son Junaid Khan’s debut film, Loveyapa, in Mumbai.
(The Hill) — The Biden administration is poised to try to lower the amount of nicotine in tobacco products, an eleventh-hour effort that's been years in the making. The move would give the White House one last chance to try to regulate tobacco, as it previously punted on finalizing a long-standing pledge to ban menthol-flavored cigarettes.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced that, through a joint operation alongside U.S. Homeland Security Investigations and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, it has seized more than 628,000 unauthorized e-cigarette products from a warehouse in Miami, Fla.
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