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Cigarette smoking among teens down, but e-cigarette use up
Teen smoking of traditional tobacco cigarettes in the United States reached a new low of eight percent in 2014, but the data from the annual “Monitoring the
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Answers to five common questions about smoking and heart health
During American Heart Month, we are highlighting five important facts about heart health from BecomeAnEX, Truth Initiative’s digital quit smoking program.
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Why you should quit smoking before having surgery
In recent years, research has shown that compared to nonsmokers, smokers have a higher chance of surgery-related complications like heart attack, stroke, sho
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Research funded to study the appeal of menthol and smoking by people with HIV
Researchers at the Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies at Truth Initiative received funding for two one-year pilot projects from MeTR
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What do the U.S. states with the highest smoking rates have in common?
Why do these 13 states have higher smoking rates and greater health consequences than the rest of U.S.?
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Smoking and mental illness: Meet the doctor helping patients quit
Hear from Dr. Steven Schroeder about why smoking among those with mental illness is a social justice issue that needs attention.
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Senators urge MPAA to assign R rating to movies with smoking
The Motion Picture Association of America should act to reduce youth exposure to smoking in movies, including by issuing an R rating to movies that feature t
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Why is smoking still being glamorized in media and pop culture?
Even as national smoking rates have declined to record lows, there has been a pervasive re-emergence of smoking imagery on screens.
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As smoking rates decline, Hollywood isn’t getting the picture
The majority of the 2018 nominees for Academy Awards® in major categories – 86 percent – feature tobacco imagery on screen
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Read this before trying to quit smoking ‘cold turkey’
Quitting “cold turkey” has a low success rate due to the nature of addiction — addiction undermines willpower, or the ability to control impulses through dec
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83 schools pledge to go smoke- or tobacco-free with community college initiative
Truth Initiative has awarded funding to 83 colleges to go smoke- or tobacco-free.
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Where are people still breathing the most secondhand smoke?
To find out who faces the most exposure and where, a Truth Initiative® researcher joined collaborators to measure secondhand smoke exposure
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