When we watch the determination of Olympic hockey players battling for gold, or see a freestyle skier land a near-impossible trick under pressure, it’s hard not to feel inspired. The ...

Finally! With the news that the sale of nicotine pouches to under-18s will be made illegal under a government crackdown, you could almost hear the scream of relief from parents across the land. I ...

LAS VEGAS, Mar. 11, 2026 / PRZen / As millions of Americans attempt to quit nicotine and move away from sugar-loaded ...

A Harvard addiction medicine specialist is getting calls from distraught parents around the country. A Stanford psychologist is getting calls from rattled school officials around the world. A federal ...

The nicotine found in tobacco stimulates the reward circuit, encouraging consumption and potentially leading to addiction. In a paper published in Neuron, scientists reveal how, in mice, a small ...

When I was in medical training in the 1970s, 40 percent of adults in the U.S. smoked cigarettes. There were cigarette vending machines everywhere, cigarettes cost a low 40 cents per pack, making teen ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Experts are concerned that the pouches are another attempt by the tobacco industry to keep people addicted - Getty Last year, ...

The Biden administration is taking a bold step in the fight against tobacco addiction with a proposal from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) aimed at capping nicotine levels in cigarettes. This ...

Laura Oyler’s syndicated column “The Truth About Nicotine” in the Oct. 7 Albuquerque Journal argued for loosening regulations on noncombustible nicotine (e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches) because ...

The fight to stamp out cigarettes may be heading in a mind-bending new direction. Research published this week found that a ...

Until now, the storm over e-cigarettes has largely focused on how to keep the products away from minors. But the pervasiveness of nicotine addiction among teenagers who already use the devices is now ...