Sentences with phrase «traditional cigarettes»

More research will be needed to determine why e-cigarettes increase the risk of someone transitioning to tobacco cigarettes, but Primack noted that several factors are likely at play, including that using e-cigarettes mimics the behavior of smoking traditional cigarettes, the sweet vape is a gentle introduction to smoking harsher tobacco and the build - up of nicotine addiction could lead e-cigarette users to seek out more nicotine - packed tobacco cigarettes.

Researchers worry that because of advertising and of similarities in both form and function, e-cigarettes may promote use of traditional cigarettes among adolescents and young adults.

Federal officials also could ban the use of flavors in e-cigarettes, as has already been done in traditional cigarettes except for menthol, said Dr. Norman Edelman, senior scientific advisor for the American Lung Association.

The Erie County Legislature takes public comment Monday on a proposal to restrict the use of electronic cigarettes in public spaces, just as traditional cigarettes are banned.

Electronic cigarettes are widely promoted and used to help smokers quit traditional cigarettes, but a new analysis from UC San Francisco found that adult smokers who use e-cigarettes are actually 28 percent less likely to stop smoking cigarettes.

Mark Rubinstein, the lead author of the study, said «the vapor produced by e-cigarettes is not harmless water vapor, but actually contains some of the same toxic chemicals found in smoke from traditional cigarettes.»

With the rules that were more than two years in the making, the agency is expanding its authority over e-cigarettes, cigars and hookah tobacco, in much the same way it already regulates traditional cigarettes.

All participants were considered «non-susceptible» to initiating traditional cigarette smoking at the beginning of the study, because they had responded «definitely no» when asked if they would try a cigarette offered by a friend or believed they would smoke a cigarette within the next year.

Cramer tracks how electronic cigarette makers like Juul Labs are stifling business at traditional cigarette makers.

But just as the world's two largest tobacco manufacturers, Reynolds American (maker of Camel) and Altria (maker of Marlboro) were entering the market, the FDA announced its intention in April to regulate e-cigarettes as it does traditional cigarettes — including age restrictions and health warnings.

First, the FDA is in the process of deciding whether to treat e-cigarettes like traditional cigarettes.

While you may find it relatively easy to talk your teen out of trying traditional cigarettes, it can be harder to convince kids to stay away from e-cigarettes.

But while the industry is on board with age restrictions, e-cigarette makers strongly oppose a sweeping decision to group them with traditional cigarettes in general.

A new survey on the use of tobacco products in New York State shows a change in the dynamic of the tobacco marketplace, shifting from traditional cigarette brands to newer products.

Last month, legislators unveiled a plan to ban the use of e-cigarettes in indoor workplaces, similar to the ban on traditional cigarettes.

Past research has shown a link between traditional cigarette advertisements and receptive nonsmoking adolescents going on to light up.

Gearing traditional cigarette ads toward teens has been restricted since 1998.

Young people across the United States who smoke electronic cigarettes are considerably more likely to start smoking traditional cigarettes within a year than their peers who do not smoke e-cigarettes, according to an analysis led by the University of Pittsburgh Center for Research on Media, Technology, and Health (CRMTH) and the Dartmouth - Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center.

Traditional cigarettes produce 2 classes of radicals during the smoking event — gas phase radicals and those associated with TPM.

While traditional cigarettes deliver nicotine when the smoker inhales burning tobacco, e-cigarettes heat liquid nicotine until it vaporizes.

A report recently released by Rhode Island Kids Count indicates that in 2015, 19 percent of high school students and 7.5 percent of middle school students had reported using an e-cigarette at the same time traditional cigarette use was at an all - time low for those age groups.

E-cigarettes are not subject to the same regulations as traditional cigarettes, potentially renormalizing the act of smoking after decades of public health efforts to shift public norms around smoking.

At the same time, he's embraced the idea that nicotine products like e-cigarettes could be used as alternatives to help adults quit traditional cigarettes.

The scientists also do not know if their model applies to people who smoke e-cigarettes or other forms of tobacco, as their study used condensates typically found in traditional cigarettes.

Use of traditional cigarettes has continued to decline to the lowest levels in the survey's history.

«E-cigarettes are not subject to many laws that regulate traditional cigarettes, such as age limits on sales, taxation and labeling requirements.

By the next year, 38 percent of the baseline e-cigarette users had initiated traditional cigarette smoking.

Philip Morris (pm), the maker of Marlboro cigarettes everywhere except the United States, gets the vast majority of its sales and profits from traditional cigarettes, which kill an estimated 6 million people a year worldwide.

While some have argued that vaping could be linked with a so - called «gateway effect» whereby young people who vape become addicted to nicotine and are thus more likely to transition to traditional cigarettes, others have said this doesn't make sense.

The latter is a form of «heat - not - burn» tobacco product that nixes the combustible element of traditional cigarettes (a major source of smoking toxins).

Sixty - seven of them used e-cigarettes only, 17 used e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes, and 20 did not smoke or vape.

A study conducted at the University of California, San Francisco, found a presence of cancer - causing chemicals in e-cigarette users as well as people who smoked traditional cigarettes.

Your teen is likely to think e-cigarettes are much cooler than traditional cigarettes and your teen may insist you don't know what you're talking about since e-cigarettes probably weren't around when you were young.

The e-cigarette is less harmful compared to the traditional cigarette.

This week's fifth spot goes to our piece on the report by Public Health England which said e-cigarettes are far safer than traditional cigarettes.

It has been suggested that e-cigarettes may be safer than traditional cigarettes, and might even be a useful «bridge» to smoking cessation.

The study, «Electronic Cigarette Use Among College Students: Links to Gender, Race / Ethnicity, Smoking, and Heavy Drinking» found in the Journal of American College Health connects e-cigarette use in colleges to high rates of alcohol consumption and other factors such as: gender, race / ethnicity and traditional cigarettes.

The rise of e-cigarettes may be a positive consequence of cigarette smokers who use this product to quit smoking or to avoid the toxicity of traditional cigarettes.

The success of all these enterprises hinges on the claim that e-cigarettes are healthier than traditional cigarettes.

«Refraining from [e-cigarette] use four weeks before surgery is a prudent course of action, despite the fact that it has yet to be determined if the effects are similar to traditional cigarettes,» write ASPS Member Surgeons Dr. Peter Taub of Mount Sinai Medical Center and Dr. Alan Matarasso of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, both in New York City.

Is it e-cigarettes, traditional cigarettes, or both?

Though conventional cigarette smoking has declined dramatically over recent decades in the US, the report stresses that e-cigarette use is associated with the use of other tobacco products and that perceptions of e-cigarettes as less harmful than traditional cigarettes can lead to increased rates of vaping.

Research has already shown that immune response provided by nasal mucous membranes is compromised in cigarette smokers, which causes them to be more susceptible to the outcomes of a viral infection, said Ilona Jaspers, deputy director of the Center for Environmental Medicine Asthma and Lung Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but her new research revealed even more immune suppression effects in e-cigarette users than in smokers of traditional cigarettes.

Previous research has found that teens who use e-cigarettes are more likely to smoke traditional cigarettes (SN: 9/19/15, p. 14).

Electronic cigarettes or «e-cigs» have been touted as a tool smokers can use to wean themselves off of traditional cigarettes, which many believe are more harmful than their «e» counterparts.

«While preliminary evidence suggests that e-cigarettes contain fewer toxic chemicals than traditional cigarettes, our findings suggest that a potential increase in harmful cigarette use may follow as e-cigarette use continues to rise among adolescent populations,» said Baskerville.

The high - tech gadgets, marketed as a healthier alternative to traditional cigarettes, seem to be available everywhere, from Internet suppliers and specialty vaping shops to 24 - hour convenience marts.

While they are promoted as a way to quit traditional cigarettes, they also are promoted as a way to get nicotine in environments where traditional cigarettes are prohibited, even though more than 430 cities and several states ban their use in smoke free sites where conventional cigarettes are also prohibited.

Though e-cigarettes are typically marketed as a harmless alternative to traditional cigarettes, previous research has shown they are not free from harmful chemicals.