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By Camalot Todd, Nevada Current January 24- Nevada received F’s in four out of the five public policies on which the American Lung Association grades states, according to the organization’s annual “State of Tobacco Control” report released Wednesday. Tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable death and disease in Nevada and the U.S., with... View Article

News 3 Staff January 25- Nevada remains behind other states when it comes to prevention or reducing tobacco use in the state, according to a new report from the American Lung Association. The “State of Tobacco Control” report published Wednesday gave mostly failing grades to Nevada based on an evaluation of policies taken to eliminate tobacco use.... View Article

By Carma Hassan, CNN January 26- The federal government gets “mostly failing grades on its efforts to prevent and reduce tobacco,” a new report from the American Lung Association says. The 20th annual “State of Tobacco Control” report calls for an end to manufacturing flavored tobacco, saying flavored tobacco products and e-cigarettes jeopardize progress made by tobacco control... View Article

Truth Initiative January 21- Increasing state tobacco control spending could significantly decrease high school student vaping and frequency of vaping among high school e-cigarette users, according to a new study led by researchers at University of Illinois at Chicago in partnership with Truth Initiative. The study, published in Tobacco Control, is the first to look... View Article