Decline in Cigarettes Use among Youth in Minnesota

Latest 2014 Minnesota Youth Tobacco Survey shows that use of cigarettes among school students has declined significantly, but use of e-cigarettes is increased. Data shows that more than a quarter of high school students have tried electronic cigarettes. Health care officials say that e-cigarettes contain nicotine which causes dependence. This may make young people want

Fewer Students Smoking Cigarettes in North Carolina

Latest Youth Tobacco Survey conducted in North Carolina found that fewer middle and high school students in the state are smoking cheapest cigarettes. The bad news is that more students use other tobacco products and here the talk is about pipes, snuff, hookah and e-cigarettes. The doctors are worried much about youth interest towards e-cigarettes

Frisco Included E-cigarettes in Smoking Ban

Yesterday City Council in Frisco, Texas, voted 3-2 to expand its smoking ordinance in order to protect the health of its citizens. The ordinance bans not only use of regular cigarettes but also e-cigarettes in all city parks. However, the law would allow to use chewing tobacco, as the authorities did not build a consensus

Alaska to Expand Smoke-Free Workplace Laws

Last week supporters of Smoke-Free Indoor Workplace bill in Alaska told that it’s time to make smoke-free laws work in the entire state of Alaska. At the beginning of the week the proposed smoke-free law got a hearing with the Senate State Affairs Committee at the Capitol in Juneau. If the law gets approved, it

New York City to Ban Display of Cigarettes

New York plans to raise legal smoking age to 21 and besides this to ban dispay of cigarettes in the stores. These anti-tobacco measures to be adopted soon as Michael R. Bloomberg intends to make New York a smoke-free city. However, authorities of the New York city say that e-cigarettes escape display ban in their

Altria to Enter E-Cigarette Market

Altria Group Inc. made an announcement that it would create its own variation of e-cigarettes in the second half of 2013 amid signs the battery-powered gadgets, which turn heated, nicotine-laced liquid into vapor, are starting to go sales of regular cigarettes in the U.S., less than 10 years after appearing. The CDC reports that more

Are Electronic Cigarettes a Safe Alternative for Smokers?

Electronic cigarettes, mostly known as e-cigarettes, have recently been advertised as a “safe” alternative to regular cigarettes, however according to the recent study, this extremely popular trend is harmful to overall health of a person. Nowadays about 700,000 people use such electronic devices in order to give up smoking. E-cigarettes deliver nicotine through a vapor.