33 The Plan includes a specific commitment to the continued use of mass media campaigns to promote smoking cessation and raise awareness of the harms of smoking
If you smoke, you are about three times more likely to have gum disease than a non-smoker
Smoking cigarettes is the leading risk factor for lung cancer
After reviewing 78 completed studies, including 40 randomized controlled trials, representing 22,052 participants, researchers found high-certainty evidence that e-cigarettes with nicotine increased quit rates compared to nicotine replacement therapy and that they were also more effective than other cessation methods
Existing research that compared e-cigarettes with normal cigarettes found that cigarette contaminants are much lower in e-cigarettes, senior author Carsten Prasse, an assistant professor of environmental health and engineering at the Whiting School of Engineering and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, says in a statement
A pouch between 6 and 9mg is generally the right starting point for moderate smokers