How do you sell a product when you can't really say what it does?
"Here they are," says James Monsees, extracting two smallish white boxes that scream upscale gadget and laying them on the table with a proud grin. It's a grin that goes nicely with his business-casual...
View ArticleTeens and young adults confronted by more TV ads for e-cigarettes
Commercials for electronic cigarettes have become so ubiquitous that millions of American teens have seen them since 2012, a new study says. About 4 out of 5 of the TV ads seen by these young viewers...
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Not their parents' vices: Smoking down, texting while driving rampant
There's been an outbreak of good behavior among American teens, although public health officials perceive new patterns of risky business on the part of U.S. adolescents. In a report issued Thursday,...
View ArticleGwynn's death renews call for chewing tobacco ban
NEW YORK -- The death of Hall-of-Fame baseball player Tony Gwynn from mouth cancer has renewed calls to end the use of chewing tobacco from its traditional place in the game. Gwynn, 54, died June 16...
View ArticleTony Gwynn's death and baseball's dirty habit
SAN FRANCISCO Bruce Bochy had his first taste of chewing tobacco at age 18. He thought he was doing something smart. "We thought it was a safe alternative to smoking," the San Francisco Giants manager...
View ArticleTeen smoking related to parent smoking patterns
The more time a child is around a parent who smokes, the greater the chance the child will become a regular smoker, researchers said. The researchers looked at smoking patterns: timing, duration and...
View ArticleElectronic cigarettes help smokers quit in 'real world,' study finds
A new study based on real-world data from England lends support to the idea that electronic cigarettes can help smokers quit using regular cigarettes. Among a sample of 5,963 adults who tried to kick...
View ArticleMore teens think pot is safe, alcohol and drug use down, survey finds
Fewer adolescents think smoking pot is risky than a decade ago, but the use of other drugs, including “bath salts,” Ecstasy and tobacco, dropped in the same period, according to an annual nationwide...
View ArticleMost youth who use smokeless tobacco are smokers, too
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Most young people in the U.S. who use newer smokeless tobacco products are smoking cigarettes too, according to new research. "These findings are troubling, but not...
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