Over the past couple of years, health authorities from all around the world have begun enforcing new anti-smoking policy due to the ever increasing levels of young smokers. According to a new study, smokers react more to tobacco ban than to higher tobacco taxes. The study in question has been performed by a joint team of scientists, hailing from Ohio State University and … [Read more...]
High School Seniors Smoke More Marijuana than Tobacco
A new study revealed that high school seniors smoke more marijuana than tobacco. However, this is not a result of increasing marijuana consume, but of the decreasing popularity of tobacco. While 6 percent of high school seniors reported to smoke marijuana daily in 2015, just like in 2014, unlike ever before, the rates dropped for daily tobacco users from 6.7 percent last … [Read more...]
Raising Tobacco Purchase Age to 21 Will Cut Number of Teenagers Who Smoke
An independent study compiled for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration states that if Congress increases the tobacco purchase age to 21 from 18, it will drastically cut the number of teenagers between 15 and 17-years old who start smoking. The power to increase the tobacco purchase age on a national scale is held by the Congress, which asked that the FDA commission the … [Read more...]
