Posted: February 2017 By Kenneth Michael Cummings, PhD, MPH Cigarette packaging designs with different logos, imagery, size configurations and color schemes have been an important marketing tool used by manufacturers to attract different groups to try specific cigarette brands and sub-brands. For example, slim and elegant packaging with feminine imagery is used to attract young…

By Erik J. MacLaren, PhD Tobacco smoking is a well-known risk factor for developing lung cancers, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that nine out of 10 cigarette smokers began smoking by age 18.1 Michael Kulik, MS, a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, teaches an academically…

By Kenneth Michael Cummings, PhD, MPH The US FDA recently finalized a new rule (http://www.fda.gov/TobaccoProducts/ Labeling/RulesRegulationsGuidance/ ucm388395.htm) that will extend its regulatory authority to all tobacco products, including small and large cigars, hookah tobacco (also called waterpipe tobacco), pipe tobacco, nicotine gels, dissolvable tobacco products, and electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes). What will the new rule do?…

By Prof. Brigit Toebes, PhD, and Willem Bantema, MSc, in collaboration with Wanda de Kanter, MD Critics have warned that Dutch legislation and policy increasingly lag behind that of other countries when it comes to regulating tobacco. There have been criticisms on multiple fronts, including the lack of a firm smoking ban in all (public…

Tobacco smoking dramatically increases the risk of developing lung cancers, and it has long been recognized that nicotine addiction is one of the biggest obstacles to changing current smokers’ behavior. IASLC Lung Cancer News recently spoke with Laura Jean Bierut, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri,…

By Emily Stone, MBBS, MMed, FRACP, and Graham Warren, MD, PhD Tobacco control is set to become one of the most clinically effective and rapidly developing areas in lung cancer medicine. Since the original publication of the US Surgeon General’s Report (SGR) on Smoking and Health in 1964, the 2014 SGR report details the most…