Assessing the FDA’s latest moves on nicotine and e-cigarettes
Experts from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health discuss the public health implications of the FDA's actions.
Vaping appears linked with chronic lung disease
A study that looked at four patients with chronic lung disease found that e-cigarette use was the most likely cause.
Study: Misinformation about e-cigs’ harms gets most engagement on Twitter
Twitter users are more likely to engage with tweets stating that e-cigarettes are as harmful or more harmful than smoking compared with tweets suggesting that e-cigarettes are completely harmless, according to a new study.
Weighing benefit vs. risk of newly authorized e-cig products
Three Harvard Chan School experts weigh in on the FDA’s decision to authorize a set of three e-cigarette products for sale in the U.S. for the first time.
Perspectives: Why a national ban on menthol cigarettes is the right choice
May 12, 2021 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced that it will take steps to ban menthol cigarettes. Three Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health experts share their views on the significance of…
New study and app aimed at analyzing vaping habits and health
An interdisciplinary team of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers has launched a custom app to collect data on vaping habits and health as part of the Vaping and Health Study (VHS). The VHS app can…
Glucan, a microbial toxin, found in Juul’s nicotine vaping liquids
January 2, 2020 – E-cigarette products made by Juul Labs were contaminated with a microbial toxin that can cause long-term lung damage, according to an analysis conducted by researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study,…
Tobacco ads target bisexual women, blacks, Hispanics
Certain minority groups, including bisexual women and people of color, are more likely to be exposed to vaping and tobacco ads than their heterosexual white peers, according to a study co-authored by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School…
E-cigarettes linked with lung disease in adults
Vaping e-cigarettes is a risk factor for lung disease in adults, whether or not the user also smoked traditional cigarettes, according to a new study. According to a December 17, 2019 article in Popular Science, researchers from the…
Probing public health issues in Massachusetts
Massachusetts may rank as one of the healthiest states in the U.S., but it lags behind countries that are similarly wealthy and industrialized. In a podcast for CommonWealth Magazine, Monica Bharel, MPH ’12, commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of…