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NIDA Announces a Research E-Cigarette: Brings More Certainty to Clinical Studies
Over the past century, efforts to study the health effects of cigarette smoking have also led to tremendous advances in the way we conduct clinical and population health science research. An important innovation in the development of laboratory experiments on smoking was the development of the research cigarette, seen below. This research cigarette helped…
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Thanks and Acknowledgements
It takes many people to make a project like The Tobacco Atlas come together. At risk of excluding people who helped us along the way, we would like to acknowledge some very key actors. First and foremost, Johnny Hsu at Vital Strategies and John Daniel at ACS might not have officially authored any chapters, but…
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When Tobacco Crowds Out Rice
The burden of the tobacco epidemic is always tragic, but it is particularly problematic for those in economic need. Losing a breadwinner to a tobacco-related disease often means years in poverty for the smoker’s family. More often, though, increased tobacco consumption leads to decreased family budget to purchase other essential goods—e.g., food, clothes, and hygiene…
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Three New Ways Tobacco Companies Evade Packaging Regulations
Warning labels are applied to consumer products to educate and help the user know that the item may be harmful. Graphic warning labels and other packaging regulations on tobacco products are meant to educate smokers and other tobacco users about the grave consequences of their habit, but tobacco companies frequently try to get around new…
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