California raises the legal smoking age from 18 to 21
California dealt a major blow to the tobacco industry Wednesday, passing a series of laws, including one that raised the minimum age to buy tobacco from 18 to 21, CNN reported. The laws also target the sale of e-cigarettes but make an exception for one group of Americans.
New Jersey follows Hawaii’s lead in stopping youth smoking
On Jan. 1, Hawaii put into effect a bold new law that will hopefully stop young people from picking up smoking. Now New Jersey is following suit with a bill that would do exactly the same. But not everyone is on board.
Adele confirmed to the Mirror that she finally quit smoking — but at its peak, she was smoking an extreme number of cigarettes a day.
Hawaii has officially raised the smoking age to 21.
On Friday, Hawaii’s Democratic Gov. David Ige signed a bill to officially raise the state’s minimum smoking age from 18 to 21. Proponents of the law believe it will prevent thousands of Hawaiians from taking up smoking. Though the punishment right now is minimal.
2 out of 3.
That’s how many smokers will die from the habit. (And yes, they’ll live shorter lives too.)
A typical one-hour long water pipe smoking session involves inhaling 100-200 times the smoke inhaled with a single cigarette.
Why you should switch from cigarettes to e-cigarettes, according to science
Is it time to put out that cigarette and plug in a vaporizer? New research from the University of Leuven published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health has found striking evidence that e-cigarettes may actually be a useful tool for smokers looking to quit.
We believe it’s the right thing to do and the right time to do it because updating our tobacco use policies will better accommodate both nonsmokers and smokers who work in and visit our facilities. We’re just better aligning our tobacco use policies with the realities of what you’re seeing in society today.
David Howard, Reynolds American spokesman
A new and creative way to help smokers.
Watch America quit smoking before your eyes
As it turns out, America may really be Marlboro Country, or at least cigarette country. But luckily, that’s been changing.
The above .GIF, created by MetricMaps, shows the number of cigarette packs sold per capita rise dramatically through the late 1970s before plummeting to just a fraction of that by the 2000s. While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that an astonishing 18.1% of all U.S. adults continue to regularly smoke cigarettes, it’s a 2.8% decrease from 2005 alone.
They say e-cigarettes are safe.
Because users don’t have to light up tobacco to smoke, the conventional (and manufacturer’s) wisdom goes, they don’t inhale as many carcinogens. So allegedly, they don’t cause cancer, irritate the lungs or contribute as significantly to other diseases like asthma or diabetes.