ActionToQuit

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ActionToQuit is a tobacco control initiative sponsored by Altarum Institute. One in five adult Americans smoke or uses some form of tobacco.

It urges all sectors – health care systems, employers, insurers, government agencies, quitlines, and policymakers – to work together to develop and promote sound tobacco control policies. This causes or complicates many of the Nation’s most common and costly chronic diseases (cancer, heart and lung disease, stroke, asthma) and results in the deaths of over 400,000 people every year. We are failing

How a Cigarette Is Engineered 12/27/2016

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How a Cigarette Is Engineered The design and content of ci******es continue to make them attractive, addictive, and deadly. Every day, more than 1,300 people in the United States die because of cigarette use.

Study Finds e-ci******es Don’t Make To***co Use Appealing Again | Psych Central News 12/23/2016

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Study Finds e-ci******es Don’t Make To***co Use Appealing Again | Psych Central News The increased public use of e-ci******es has not re-normalized the use of conventional ci******es, as some have argued, according to a new study conducted by the Centre for Substance Use Research (CSUR) in Scotland. The findings are published in the journal International Archives of Addiction Resear...

Dangers of Ni****ne Are Highlighted in New Report 12/20/2016

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Dangers of Ni****ne Are Highlighted in New Report The dangers of ni****ne may be especially problematic for children and teens, causing addiction and other health problems. Consumer Reports examines new findings.

Join Kira Kosarin and Take Back the Shelves. 12/19/2016

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Join Kira Kosarin and Take Back the Shelves. Pharmacies -- trusted healthcare sources -- and to***co -- the leading preventable cause of death -- just. don’t. mix. We’re teaming up with truth to take ba...

Broken Promises to Our Children 12/15/2016

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Broken Promises to Our Children Big To***co spends $20 to market its deadly products for every $1 the states spend to fight to***co use.

American Teens Are On Their Best Behavior In 40 Years, Survey Says 12/14/2016

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American Teens Are On Their Best Behavior In 40 Years, Survey Says A survey says that American teenagers are on their best behavior in 40 years – they’re drinking and smoking less, and are not doing drugs as often as their predecessors. Even ma*****na use has gone down among middle-school children, says the yearly Monitoring the Future survey conducted. Lloyd Johns...

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