Sweet and smoky scent with lasting appeal
What we know is about half of adult smokers are interested in an alternative, some way to safely enjoy tobacco. Public health advocates are skeptical
A 2019 meta-analysis of 94 publications reported that 95.1% of studies with no financial conflicts-of-interest (COI) found potential harm caused by e-cigarettes, compared to just 7.7% of studies funded by the tobacco industry 39
When one of us (AB) visited that year with its director, Dan Horn, an epidemiologist who had co-authored landmark studies on smoking and lung cancer in the 1950s, he explained the balancing act he had to perform: If we only produce pamphlets and posters, then people will be suspicious
Now, the tobacco crop from the Virginia Old Belt is in, harvested pretty much the way it has been for more than a century
A team of researchers, led by Jiaxing Li from the North China Electrical Power University in Beijing, decided to investigate whether porous cigarette ash might do a better job
