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Smokeless tobacco products designed to attract the young
New smokeless tobacco products with slick packaging and candy-like appearance can lure young people and others into smoking, and, despite having lower nicotine levels, still cause cancer and other health risks, says Gregory N. Connolly, professor of the practice…
Public housing, private vice
[Fall 2010] Should smoking be banned in people’s homes? Smoking is banned in the common areas of Yelena Lantsman’s home, a public-housing high-rise for the elderly in Brookline, Massachusetts, where she has lived for the last eighteen years.…
Greece goes smoke-free in restaurants, bars with HSPH support
September 1, 2010 -- Greece, the nation with the world’s highest smoking rate, went smoke-free, with help from research from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Cyprus International Institute for the Environmental and Public Health. At…
Tobacco companies target poorer neighborhoods with advertising
Prof. Gregory Connolly, director of the Tobacco Control Research Group at HSPH, is quoted in a Boston Globe article about tobacco advertising in Boston. The article notes that storefront tobacco ads are ubiquitous in lower-income neighborhoods, particularly those…
Puffing in public housing poses serious health risks to tenants
Researchers examine risks and consequences of cigarette smoking to all inhabitants of multiple-unit housing; challenge status quo BOSTON, MA -- In an effort to protect children from harmful tobacco smoke exposure, health and medical professionals are pushing for a ban…
Smoke-free air laws effective at protecting children from secondhand smoke
No Protection Found for Children Exposed to Secondhand Smoke in Homes For immediate release: Monday, June 7, 2010 Boston, MA—Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have found that children and adolescents living in non-smoking homes in…
Tobacco company's new, dissolvable nicotine products could lead to accidental poisoning in infants and youth
For immediate release: Monday, April 19, 2010 Boston, MA—A tobacco company’s new, dissolvable nicotine pellet--which is being sold as a tobacco product, but which in some cases resembles popular candies--could lead to accidental nicotine poisoning in children, according…
Four preventable risk factors reduce life expectancy in U.S. and lead to health disparities
Population-based Interventions Needed to Reduce Deaths from Chronic Diseases For immediate release: Monday, March 22, 2010 Boston, MA -- A new study led by researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) in collaboration with researchers from…
Three Harvard School of Public Health alumni named to new FDA tobacco advisory committee
Committee Will Evaluate Safety, Dependence, and Other Issues Related to Tobacco Products For immediate release: Wednesday, March 3, 2010 Boston, MA – The recently formed Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Center for Tobacco Products has just created a…
Based on new study, tobacco control researchers call on FDA to require complete disclosure from tobacco companies of changes made to cigarettes
Study Finds That Tobacco Companies Changed Ingredients, Design of Cigarettes Without Alerting Smokers For immediate release: Friday, June 19, 2009 Boston, MA -- As President Obama prepares to signa bill giving the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversight…