Drugs used for weight loss help people stop smoking, study finds
Semaglutide, the active ingredient in drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic, can help people lose weight — and a new study says it may also help people quit smoking.
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Semaglutide, the active ingredient in drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic, can help people lose weight — and a new study says it may also help people quit smoking.
The White House had been due to decide on the menthol cigarette rule in March.
The US Food and Drug Administration says it still plans to finalize rules that would prohibit the sale of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars this year, but the agency is running behind schedule.
Researchers hope the results can help in intervening and preventing teens from taking up the bad habit before addiction takes hold.
The warnings - in English and French - include "poison in every puff," "tobacco smoke harms children" and "cigarettes cause impotence."
In a surprising street performance that was designed to draw a crowd, activists dumped 650,000 cigarette butts into a city square in Portugal's capital city of Lisbon.
Although cigarette smoking has declined in recent decades, it remains the leading cause of preventable disease, disability and death in the US, where an estimated 30.8 million adults currently smoke.
Two years ago, California banned flavored tobacco products such as menthol cigarettes and cotton candy vaping juice. But the law never took effect. Tobacco companies spent $20 million on a campaign that gathered enough signatures to put the issue to the voters. On Nov. 8, voters will decide whether or not to keep the law.
Around 16% of respondents said they currently smoke marijuana, while nearly half have tried it at some point in their lifetime.
A police officer in Georgia found a stun gun disguised as a package of cigarettes during a traffic stop.
Cigarette prices have shot skyward in California.
An unattended cigarette started a garage fire in South Sacramento overnight.
They throw them down and she picks them up, by the tens of thousands. One woman roams the streets of Auburn trying to rid that city of discarded cigarettes.
Similar legislation stalled in the Legislature this year amid opposition from tobacco companies. Voters have rejected two other cigarette tax hikes in the last decade.
