The esteemed New England Journal of Medicine ran two separate studies in January relating to the perils of smoking and its impact on the U.S. population. The first study, 21st-Century Hazards of Smoking and Benefits of Cessation in the United Sta...
CommentsIn public health, we often say that smoking is NOT an equal opportunity killer as certain communities are more burdened with smoking-related diseases and death than others. Socioeconomic differences, historical factors, and cultural practices-as...
CommentsOnline Engagement on BecomeAnEX.org Promotes Smoking AbstinenceGuest blog by Amanda Richardson, PhD, MS, Senior Director for Research and Evaluation at LegacyDespite substantial declines in smoking prevalence over the last 40 years, nearly one in...
CommentsTobacco use is a devastating epidemic. It is one that kills 400,000 annually in the U.S. alone, and we know it is not an equal opportunity killer. As a social justice issue, tobacco continues to impact groups that have less access to health care...
CommentsFor years, Big Tobacco purposely hid the full scope of the dangers of smoking. From print ads to television ads, tobacco companies glamorized their fatal products, deceived smokers with light and low tar products, and concealed the addictiveness...
CommentsEach December, smokers across America decide to quit as one of their New Year’s resolutions. Out of the more than 45 million smokers in the United States, nearly 69 percent want to quit. With nicotine named one of the most addictive substances, s...
CommentsGuest blog by Dave Dobbins, Chief Operating Officer at LegacySmoking has been aggressively and fraudulently marketed to the American public by an industry that has lied and misrepresented key information about its deadly product for years, includ...
CommentsA few years ago, Legacy highlighted the story of a woman whose father was a life-long smoker who suffered from a cancerous tumor on his tongue. He continued to smoke even after the cancer diagnosis and removal of the tumor for many reasons, inclu...
CommentsFrom the introduction of novel smokeless, spit-less tobacco products such as R.J. Reynolds’Camel Orbs, Strips, and Sticks and Star Scientific’s Ariva and Stonewall products, we know that Big Tobacco is a very nimble industry, always developing an...
CommentsGuest Blog by Nathan K. Cobb, MD, Research Investigator at The Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies at LegacyThis month Facebook announced that it had reached 1 billion active users. Not 1 billion accounts or registrants,...
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