Our ambition is to lead a full-scale effort to ensure that non-combustible products ultimately replace cigarettes. The American Cancer Society estimates that six million people die each year from tobacco use
Dr Abigail Evans, who led the research, said: Our study provides real world evidence of how viewing these graphic images over time has an impact on smokers beyond what occurs with simple text warnings. The researchers used US Food and Drug Administration labels, one which included an image of a man smoking through a hole in his throat, called a tracheostomy, which is the result of some smoking related cancers
Thats when the FDA effectively banned all flavors except menthol and tobacco from cartridge-based e-cigarettes like Juul, the rechargeable device blamed for sparking a nationwide surge in underage vaping
Smokers can easily miss the first signs of trouble
The same day, Tobacco Control journal published a study led by the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (ITC Project) (Fong et al.)[i], providing real-world evidence from Canada showing that menthol bans led menthol and non-menthol smokers to quit, and projecting that a US menthol ban could lead more than 1.3 million US smokers to quit, including more than 381,000 African American smokers
Am J Epidemiol 151 : 251258
