Topic AddictionAdvertisingAdvertisingCancerCancerChewing TobaccoCigarettesCigarsCostCostDeathDeathDiseaseDiseaseE-cigarettesEnvironmentEpidemicFashionFlavors/MentholFlavors/MentholGamingHealth RisksHealth RisksHealth RisksHeroinHookahIngredientsIngredientsJuulLegal AgeLegal AgeMarketingMarketingMoviesMusicOpioidsOverdosePainkillersPetsPop CulturePop CulturePrescriptionsProductsProfilingProfilingQuittingQuittingRecoveryRetailRetailSmoke-Free PlacesSmoke-Free PlacesSmokingSocial MediaStreamingTobacco SalesTobacco SnuffTVVaping ShowClose Filters Filter by Tags Subtags Search Change Issue SmokingVapingOpioids Showing 477 of 549 results. Fact Fact Fact Smokeless tobacco is addictive. 5 Reactions Source: "The Health Consequences of Using Smokeless Tobacco: A Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General." U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, NIH Pub. Bethesda, MD. Apr. 1986. Report. See all +less − Ingredients Fact Fact Fact "If they're really really not selling to children, we're all going to be out of business." -Tobacco Company Exec, 1998 2 Reactions Source: "Salem Black Initiative Program Brand Team Ideation Session." Truth Tobacco Industry Documents. 03 Aug. 1989. Report. See all +less − Legal Age, Tobacco Sales Fact Fact Fact One tree is killed for just 15 packs of Cigarettes. 12 Reactions Source: "Billions of trees. Millions of cigarette butts. One dangerous product." California Department of Public Health. 2015. Web. See all +less − Environment Fact Fact Fact Several studies have found a greater number of tobacco advertisements in African American neighborhoods. 1 Reactions Source: "Disparities and Menthol Marketing: Additional Evidence in Support of Point of Sale Policies." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health — Open Access Journal, Anderson, 2016 ; Moreland-Russel, 2013; Rising 2011 See all +less − Profiling Fact Fact Fact Big Tobacco spends nearly $1 million every hour marketing their products at the "point of sale" — a.k.a. where people buy things (like the counter at a drugstore). 6 Reactions Source: Federal Trade Commission. Federal Trade Commission Cigarette Report for 2012. Washington, DC: Federal Trade Commission, 2015. http://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents /reports/federal-trade-commission-cigarette-report-2012/150327-2012cigaretterpt.pdf. Accessed November 16, 2015. See all +less − Advertising, Retail Fact Fact Fact People recovering from substance abuse are twice as likely to relapse within three years if they are a smoker. Reactions Source: Weinberger, Andrea H., et al. “Cigarette Smoking Is Associated With Increased Risk of Substance Use Disorder Relapse: A Nationally Representative, Prospective Longitudinal Investigation.” The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Physicians Postgraduate Press, Inc., 22 Feb. 2017. HealthDay. “Smoking slows recovery from drug abuse.” Chicagotribune.com, 27 Mar. 2017, www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/health/ct-smoking-addiction-recovery-health-20170327-story.html. Accessed 21 Sept. 2017. See all +less − Quitting Fact Fact Fact In 2015 , the opioid epidemic cost the US more than 500 billion dollars. 1070 Reactions Source: The Council of Economic Advisers. The Underestimated Cost of the Opioid Crisis. Washington, DC: Executive Office of the President; 2017. https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/images/The%20Underestimated%20Cost%20of%20the%20Opioid%20Crisis.pdf See all +less − Addiction, Epidemic Fact Fact Fact Adolescent athletes in some high-injury sports are at a 50% higher risk of misusing prescription painkillers than their peers who don't participate in these sports. Reactions Source: Veliz PT, Boyd C, McCabe SE. Playing through pain: sports participation and nonmedical use of opioid medications among adolescents. Am J Public Health. 2013;103(5):e28–e30. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2013.301242 See all +less − Fact Fact Fact Of current smokers in the U.S., 384,000 have had a stroke from smoking. 31 Reactions Source: "Cigarette Smoking Attributable Morbidity - United States, 2000." CDC. 52(35). 2003: 842-844. Table. See all +less − Disease Pagination First page« First Previous page‹ Previous … Page49 Page50 Page51 Page52 Current page53 Page54 Page55 Page56 Page57 … Next pageNext › Last pageLast »
Fact Fact Fact Smokeless tobacco is addictive. 5 Reactions Source: "The Health Consequences of Using Smokeless Tobacco: A Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General." U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, NIH Pub. Bethesda, MD. Apr. 1986. Report. See all +less − Ingredients
Fact Fact Fact "If they're really really not selling to children, we're all going to be out of business." -Tobacco Company Exec, 1998 2 Reactions Source: "Salem Black Initiative Program Brand Team Ideation Session." Truth Tobacco Industry Documents. 03 Aug. 1989. Report. See all +less − Legal Age, Tobacco Sales
Fact Fact Fact One tree is killed for just 15 packs of Cigarettes. 12 Reactions Source: "Billions of trees. Millions of cigarette butts. One dangerous product." California Department of Public Health. 2015. Web. See all +less − Environment
Fact Fact Fact Several studies have found a greater number of tobacco advertisements in African American neighborhoods. 1 Reactions Source: "Disparities and Menthol Marketing: Additional Evidence in Support of Point of Sale Policies." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health — Open Access Journal, Anderson, 2016 ; Moreland-Russel, 2013; Rising 2011 See all +less − Profiling
Fact Fact Fact Big Tobacco spends nearly $1 million every hour marketing their products at the "point of sale" — a.k.a. where people buy things (like the counter at a drugstore). 6 Reactions Source: Federal Trade Commission. Federal Trade Commission Cigarette Report for 2012. Washington, DC: Federal Trade Commission, 2015. http://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents /reports/federal-trade-commission-cigarette-report-2012/150327-2012cigaretterpt.pdf. Accessed November 16, 2015. See all +less − Advertising, Retail
Fact Fact Fact People recovering from substance abuse are twice as likely to relapse within three years if they are a smoker. Reactions Source: Weinberger, Andrea H., et al. “Cigarette Smoking Is Associated With Increased Risk of Substance Use Disorder Relapse: A Nationally Representative, Prospective Longitudinal Investigation.” The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Physicians Postgraduate Press, Inc., 22 Feb. 2017. HealthDay. “Smoking slows recovery from drug abuse.” Chicagotribune.com, 27 Mar. 2017, www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/health/ct-smoking-addiction-recovery-health-20170327-story.html. Accessed 21 Sept. 2017. See all +less − Quitting
Fact Fact Fact In 2015 , the opioid epidemic cost the US more than 500 billion dollars. 1070 Reactions Source: The Council of Economic Advisers. The Underestimated Cost of the Opioid Crisis. Washington, DC: Executive Office of the President; 2017. https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/images/The%20Underestimated%20Cost%20of%20the%20Opioid%20Crisis.pdf See all +less − Addiction, Epidemic
Fact Fact Fact Adolescent athletes in some high-injury sports are at a 50% higher risk of misusing prescription painkillers than their peers who don't participate in these sports. Reactions Source: Veliz PT, Boyd C, McCabe SE. Playing through pain: sports participation and nonmedical use of opioid medications among adolescents. Am J Public Health. 2013;103(5):e28–e30. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2013.301242 See all +less −
Fact Fact Fact Of current smokers in the U.S., 384,000 have had a stroke from smoking. 31 Reactions Source: "Cigarette Smoking Attributable Morbidity - United States, 2000." CDC. 52(35). 2003: 842-844. Table. See all +less − Disease