Menthol cigarettes offer no health benefit to smokers, and, in fact, are easier to start smoking and more difficult to quit than regular cigarettes
We think that this should be considered carefully, based on solid evidence and relative safety of flavours, rather than mere perceptions that certain flavours are targeting, or only appeal to young people
Offering a prescription for nicotine replacement to a patient who is in the precontemplation stage is unlikely to be successful, because doing so essentially asks the patient to move from precontemplation to action without going through the necessary intervening stages
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) states that cigarette smoking causes about one out of every five deaths in the United States each year
Barakat declined to respond to questions from ICIJ
And up to a quarter of all tobacco farmers contract so-called green tobacco sickness, or poisoning from the nicotine they absorb through the skin