All Posts:e-cigarettes

• Menthol Cigarette Ban in the U.S. May Lower Number of Smokers

  WASHINGTON (July 8, 2020) — Extending the United States cigarette flavor ban to include menthol products could encourage existing smokers to quit and lower the rates of people starting to smoke, according to a study published in the open access journal BMC Public Health. Under the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, the […]

  Category: News Release Tags: e-cigarettes, menthol, smoking, smoking cessation

• Georgetown Tobacco Control Expert Outlines Motivations of Altria-Juul Deal and Its Public Health Impact

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, e-cigarettes, Georgetown Lombardi, smoking

• As Vaping Increased in Popularity, Use of Cigarettes Declined

  MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (November 20, 2018) — A comprehensive analysis examining the relationship between vaping and smoking among youth and young adults finds that cigarette smoking dramatically decreased between 2013 and 2017 just as e-cigarette use became more popular. The study, published in the journal Tobacco Control, looked at five different U.S. population-level surveys that covered […]

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, e-cigarettes, smoking, vaping