Earlier this month, Reynolds American announced plans to buy its rival Lorillard for $27.4 billion
The Penn State College of Medicine received a five-year, $20 million federal grant to investigate the harmful effects of alternative tobacco products, research that will help with better regulation and improve public health
"A menthol cigarette is, well, just another cigarette, and should be treated no different." (Lorillard is the maker of Newport cigarettes, the most popular menthol brand in the U.S.) The debate over whether menthols are more addictive and harmful than regular cigarettes is complicated by cultural and racial factors
Both e-cigarettes and regular cigarettes contain nicotine, which is an addictive substance, but E-Cigarettes significantly reduce the health risks by removing the harmful chemicals in tobacco smoke
With conservative exposures, there were 182 proteins that significantly changed in the proteomics analysis
Some states restricted the use of vaping devices following the incident, although it does not seem that the risk of EVALI is common to all electronic cigarettes
