Each month, GHEA aggregates the latest news and research related to place-based tobacco control and geographic health disparities. Below you will find the latest posts, updated regularly throughout the month.
(Last updated: March 21st, 2024)
General Tobacco Control News and Research
- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has unveiled a new Framework to accelerate smoking cessation and reduce smoking- and cessation-related disparities.
- The American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation recently released a policy guide to decolonize tobacco and protect Tribal health from the effects of commercial tobacco.
- A recent study found that the FDA’s The Real Cost public education was effective at influencing youths beliefs in the dangers related commercial tobacco use.
- According to a recent study from the CDC, after implementation of the health warnings per the FDA’s deeming rule, the percentage of middle and high school students who currently use commercial tobacco products and e-cigarettes reported an increase in exposure to e-cigarette warning labels.
- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services recently released an informational bulletin on strategies to improve delivery of commercial tobacco cessation services.
- A recent study of the chemical composition of e-cigarettes found or confiscated at sixteen schools were found to widely contain substances with known adverse health effects among youth, as well as an inconsistency between labeled and measured nicotine on the products.
