Forty-four-year-old Joan Leigh has been smoking cigarettes most of her adult life and has been trying to quit recently. For years, she saw smoking as “cool,” emblematic of her engraved tin box where ...

Many of the 7,000 chemicals in cigarettes—some absorbed when the tobacco plant grows and others released when cigarettes are manufactured and smoked—are known to cause major health conditions, such as ...

Congress 2025, the Pro-Con debate session titled ‘Are e-cigarettes effective smoking cessation tools or public health hazards?’ sparked a lively discussion on a controversial topic. Experts presented ...

A new drug may be on the horizon to help people kick the world’s deadliest habit. Achieve Life Sciences, Inc., a Seattle, Washington-based pharmaceutical company, has announced positive results from ...

DelveInsight’s, “Smoking Cessation Pipeline Insight 2025” report provides comprehensive insights about 10+ companies and 12+ pipeline drugs in Smoking Cessation pipeline landscape. It covers the ...

WASHINGTON — Of the roughly 15 million Americans who tried to quit smoking in 2022, 5 in 6 failed. It’s a jarring statistic — and an indictment of the treatment options for an addiction that kills 480 ...

For more than a year and a half, COVID-19 has shaped our lives, canceling plans, separating us from friends and families, upending livelihoods and causing feelings of grief, stress, and anxiety. While ...

The number of vapers overtook the number of smokers in 2024 for the first time, with one in 10 people aged 16 and over using ...

Americans who are trying to quit smoking are probably familiar with common smoking cessation products such as nicotine gum, lozenges, and patches. Yet over the past few years, newer smoking cessation ...

For the first time in 20 years, smoking rates are on the rise. That mournful finding ought to be reinvigorating the effort to stamp out cigarettes. Astoundingly, the opposite is happening. A new tax ...

Although smoking rates have gone down over the past decades, tobacco remains a key national public health issue. According to the FDA, nearly one out of every five U.S. adults report using tobacco ...