The American Cancer Society offers a toll-free phone line, 1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669)
According to the National Youth Tobacco Survey of 2023, an estimated 1.5% of high school and middle school students (more than half of them boys), representing 400,000 adolescents, use nicotine pouchesaround the same percentage (1.6%) who smoke cigarettes, but much less than those who vape (7.7%)
In developing this proposed rule, FDA determined that the public holds misperceptions about the health risks caused by smoking and that warning statements focused on less-known health consequences of smoking paired with concordant color graphics would promote greater public understanding of the risks associated with cigarette smoking, especially given that the existing Surgeon General's warnings currently used in the United States have been shown to go unnoticed and be invisible. For the reasons discussed in the preamble to this proposed rule, FDA has determined that the proposed new cigarette health warnings will advance the Government's interest in promoting greater public understanding of the negative health consequences of cigarette smoking
and the horrible, horrible irony is that the tobacco industries research is world class and open to all as they try to be whiter than white and claw back some of their reputation, and its the *public health research* that is being shown again and again and again to be utterly woeful, full of holes, unrealistically set up, deliberately misleading, failing to compare harm etc yet still gets breathless front page press coverage *every* time it comes out, with no recourse for correction, even before its been formally peer reviewed or published in many cases
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