Tag: Lung cancer
April 15 is the day tobacco companies pay $9 billion for...
Charles Betley, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
April 15 is Tax Day in the U.S., and it is a bitter pill for many.
For state Medicaid...
Why asbestos litigation won’t go away: Because asbestos won’t go away
Jeb Barnes, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
It is tempting to dismiss asbestos as a problem of the...
Smoking rates in US have fallen to all-time low, but how...
Richard Gunderman, Indiana University
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls cigarette smoking “the leading cause of preventable disease and death in...
Who forced the cigarette companies to run those anti-smoking ads?
Stanton Glantz, University of California, San Francisco
You may have seen ads run by the big cigarette companies listing the dangers of smoking and...
A tax increase that’s proven to save lives
Jeffrey Drope, Marquette University and Otis W. Brawley, Emory University
Lung cancer remains the world’s largest cancer killer, but the world is not doing all...
Why lowering nicotine in cigarettes could change the course of health
Michael P. Eriksen, Georgia State University
The new commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently made a surprising and bold announcement that could...