By Chris Boardman It’s difficult to imagine life without an addiction. That may sound dramatic to some, but for me, it’s reality. The normal reaction when I tell people is usually something like, “Oh, ...

Axios Visuals It's not food, it's not chewing tobacco and it's not gum — though it might look like it when you see it — but it is becoming America's new addictive obsession. Why it matters: Sales of ...

Swedish Match, a subsidiary of Philip Morris International, makes the ZYN pouches. The FDA's authorization noted the pouches ...

The FDA has endorsed ZYN products for sale as a harm reduction measure to help smokers quit. Nonetheless, rising ZYN usage ...

Vaping, Juuling, cloud chasing – we have all most likely heard of electronic cigarettes or vapes. With so many new terms and devices being pushed to market, it can feel hard to keep track of the ...

Oral nicotine pouches—small, smokeless, nearly invisible and placed between the lip and gum—are rapidly gaining popularity ...

In January 2025, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized the marketing of nicotine pouches to individuals aged 21 years and older. However, the use of nicotine pouches among teens appears ...

The adolescent brain may be uniquely vulnerable to nicotine. Vaping rewires brain regions involved in impulse control and ...

When John,* 43, first heard about Zyn from a friend a couple years ago, it struck him as a “much better alternative to ...

The group was oversampled for tobacco use, with 1:1 sampling quotas by age group (55.6% adolescent vs young adult) and tobacco use (55.3% ever-users vs never-users). E-cigarette use was the most ...

At Hāmākua-Kohala Health, I work with people every day who are trying to quit nicotine. Some are teenagers who never stood a ...

Indiana Youth Tobacco Survey (IYTS) released this week shows that youth tobacco use continues to decline, with high school ...