Additionally, while e-cigarettes may confer harm reduction for individual smokers, population-level lung health impacts depend on usage patterns
We produce approximately 6 trillion cigarettes every year, generating over 1.2 million tons of cigarette butt waste
Smokers can choose when and where they smoke, but our students, employees, and patients cannot choose when and where they breathe. Adam Goldstein is a professor of family medicine in the School of Medicine and director of UNCs Tobacco Prevention and Evaluation Program, which receives funding from the N.C
David Merriman, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said the policy lesson from other cities is that officials should also be ready for organized attempts to evade a tax increase
The impacts affect more than smokers and tobacco farmers