Increasing consumer demand for lower-priced traditional cigarettes continued to send overall category sales down in September, according to the latest Nielsen convenience store report out Wednesday.
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Smoking in United States of America
In the United States of America, smoking is allowed but tobacco products should follow some regulations. Under these regulations, health warnings on tobacco packaging including cigarettes are mandatory, the minimum legal age for their sales is 21 years, and there are no federal legal restrictions on smoking in public places. While tobacco advertising is regulated, not all forms of their advertising are banned. An excise tax of 32.16% with a total taxation rate of 37.36% is applied on cigarettes. Cigarettes can legally be sold with authorised documents. They may also be purchased through vending machines as well as through online channels. Importing cigarettes for trade is allowed with an appropriate import license. Despite these control measures, prevalence data show that smoking remains an important public health issue in the United States. There were 39.8 million current smokers in the country in 2024. This represents an overall adult smoking prevalence of 14.1%, with higher prevalence among men (17.1%) than among women (11.1%). In comparison, the overall current smoking prevalence was 12.3% in 2022. The adult daily smoking prevalence was recorded to be 10.01% in 2020. Smoking-related mortality also remains significant in the country. In 2021, smoking resulted in 360,370 deaths, including 216,986 male deaths and 143,383 female deaths. This shows that smoking accounted for 10.38% of all deaths in the United States in 2021, with a higher rate among men (11.9%) than among women (8.7%).
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October 14, 2020 by journalistsresource.org
Telemedicine for drug addiction treatment: A research roundup and 5 reporting tips
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, deaths from drug overdoses have reportedly surged, even as a relaxing of federal restrictions and a rapid shift by treatment providers has led to an explosion in telemedicine options for receiving help with substance use disorders.
The move to telemedicine — defined as delivering clinical services using telecommunications technology — alleviates some longstanding barriers to treatment, but it also raises new questions, particularly as pandemic-related workplace closures and other stressors put people struggling with addiction at increased risk. [...]
October 09, 2020 by bostonherald.com
Ban on menthol cigarettes sends sales to black market, convenience store owners say
Convenience store owners already suffering from slow sales amid the coronavirus pandemic say a ban on menthol cigarettes has set the stage for a thriving black market “on every corner of the city.”
“The biggest problem facing us right now is people going out of state, buying cigarettes, coming in front of stores and selling,” said Humayun Morshed, secretary of the Boston Convenience Store Owners Association.
October 09, 2020 by upi.com
Study: Teens who vape nicotine more likely to also use cannabis e-cigarettes
If teens are vaping nicotine, it's likely they're also using cannabis-based e-cigarettes and vice versa, according to a new analysis published Tuesday by JAMA Network Open.
The survey of more than 3,000 adolescents and teens from 10 high schools in the Los Angeles area found that older teens who identified as frequent users of nicotine vaping devices were 25% more likely than others to be moderate users of cannabis e-cigarettes.
October 08, 2020 by insider.com
How long does nicotine stay in your system? A few days to a few months, depending on how frequently you smoke
Nicotine tests collect samples from either the hair, urine, saliva, or blood. Most nicotine tests don't actually test for nicotine. Instead, they look for one of its by-products: cotinine.
"In the body, nicotine is broken into its derivatives, the most important being cotinine," says Anis Rehman, MD, an assistant professor in the department of internal medicine at Southern Illinois University. "Cotinine usually lasts much longer than nicotine in the body. Therefore, most smoking tests look for cotinine."
October 07, 2020 by cspdailynews.com
Goldman Sachs Managing Director ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ About E-Cigarettes
MINNEAPOLIS — Government regulation hurt e-cigarette sales, but Goldman Sachs Managing Director Bonnie Herzog remains “cautiously optimistic” about the category.
“Certainly, I was a lot more bullish a couple of years ago when regulation was more limited,” Herzog recently told [...]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s flavored cartridge ban, state-level tobacco sales bans in places like California and Massachusetts, the THC vaping crisis and a long and expenses premarket tobacco application (PMTA) process all stunted the category’s growth, Herzog said.
October 07, 2020 by clinicaladvisor.com
FDA Announces Measures to Continue the Decline of Youth Electronic Cigarette Use
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to analyze findings from the 2020 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS). Results from the survey indicate that 1.8 million fewer US youth are using e-cigarettes in 2020 compared with the results from the 2019 survey, according to a press release from the FDA.
Currently, 3.6 million US youth are engaged in e-cigarette use. Although this is good news, the agency noted that the decline followed 2 years of steady increases in youth e-cigarette use. [...]
October 06, 2020 by journalnow.com
Traditional cigarettes sales slump on more consumer demand for lower-priced products
What Goldman Sachs analyst Bonnie Herzog refers to as "downtrading" from many top brands has been occurring in recent months during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Overall sales volume for traditional cigarettes was down 2.6% for the four-week period that ended Sept. 19.
October 06, 2020 by eurekalert.org
Would menthol cigarettes be banned if the typical consumer was young, white and upper-middle class?
Menthol could be exacerbating deep social inequities according to a paper just published in Nicotine & Tobacco Research. Researchers [...] suggest that a ban on menthol cigarettes could have monumental implications for both the short- and long-term physical and mental health of communities of color. "Assessing menthol smoking status should be a priority in all substance use research and smoking cessation interventions," observed Renee Goodwin, PhD, an epidemiologist at Columbia Mailman School, and senior author. [...]
October 06, 2020 by filtermag.org
Youth Vaping Declines, But the CDC Clings to Its “Epidemic” Narrative
On September 9, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published their latest findings on vaping prevalence among youth. The total number of US youth who vape has declined by almost 2 million, with an estimated 3.6 million middle or high school students now vaping. According to CDC Director Robert Redfield, the decline in the number of youth who use e-cigarettes is an “achievement.” However, he quickly pivoted to a negative tone.
“Although the decline in e-cigarette use among our Nation’s youth is a notable public health achievement, our work is far from over,” said Redfield in a press statement. [...]
October 05, 2020 by nytimes.com
Should N.J. Legalize Marijuana? The Voters Will Decide
For two years, New Jersey lawmakers had failed to mobilize enough support to pass a bill to fully legalize marijuana. Instead, they agreed in December to put the question directly to voters: “Do you approve amending the Constitution to legalize a controlled form of marijuana called ‘cannabis’?”
Then March roared in, and the world turned upside down.
The coronavirus took a firm hold in the United States and Black Lives Matter protesters filled streets from coast to coast.