Liking, wanting, and craving cannabis come from genetics, stress vulnerability, and the desire to "treat" depression, anxiety ...

Currently, 16.4% of adults in the U.S. use at least one tobacco or nicotine product such as cigarettes, e-cigarettes or nicotine pouches. Nicotine is extremely additive, so the American Lung ...

Actress and politician Tonto Dikeh has opened up on how she was freed from decades-long struggles with smoking, alcohol addiction, masturbation, and explosive anger during her testimony at Streams of ...

Not even a month in the hospital on a feeding tube was enough to make Sydni Collins quit pot. She and another patient with ...

West Virginia wasn’t the only state with anti-tobacco initiatives that suffered after OSH closed down. New York state’s ...

Every November, a quiet revolution unfolds across the country and right here in Philadelphia. The Great American Smokeout, held annually on the third Thursday of November, is more than a health ...

Gen Z — largely comprised of middle- and high-school students — reported the lowest smoking rates on record in 2024, according to CDC and FDA data, but that trend may be in jeopardy. "Overall, the ...

I’ve always been good at quitting obligations (see: piano lessons, ballet classes, infinite sports teams, and, in one memorable instance, a babysitting job that would have required me to fly from New ...

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has endorsed a federal policy that would make cigarettes far less addictive. The proposed policy by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sets a ...

Andrew Waa receives funding from the University of Otago and Health Research Council NZ. He is a co-director of ASPIRE Aotearoa and a member of Te Rōpū Tupeka Kore. Becky Freeman is an expert advisor ...

At the time, I was working at a CBS local radio group. It was a good job—steady paycheck, health insurance, consistency. But deep down, I wanted more. I wanted to build something of my own, to do ...

The Maldives this month barred people born after 2006 from smoking or purchasing tobacco products in the country, making the archipelago the first country to implement such a law. “Individuals born on ...