november tobacco awareness month Op-Ed: The Great American Smoke Out & Lung Cancer World No Tobacco Day 2025

The market power of tobacco companies has increased in recent years, creating new challenges for tobacco control efforts

These findings indicate the opposite of what e-cigarette and vaping marketing is saying about their safety profile. Susan Cheng, MD, MPH, MMsc A recent study by the Food and Drug Administration found that 27.5% of high school students used e-cigarettes in 2019, compared to 20.8% in 2018

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Avoid situations where you used to smoke, such as going to bars or while drinking coffee

But when you look at the tobacco industrys predatory marketing to the LGBTQ+ community and the social inequities it perpetuates, its easy to see that it is profitnot pridethat matters to the tobacco industry