Four years after the landmark 1964 Surgeon Generals report that definitively identified cigarettes as carcinogens and linked smoking with myriad health problems, Phillip Morris generated an internal report showing their awareness that menthols were falsely regarded as healthier than other smokesjust as theyd portrayed them to be
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I think because vaping is so normalized, its exciting to people when a cigarette comes out. Despite the significant progress in reducing young adult smoking over the past two decadesin fact, only 11 percent of adults ages 18 to 29 smoke cigarettes, an all-time low in the U.S., according to a 2022 Gallup poll theres a clear recent uptick in nicotine use among Gen Z in the form of e-cigarettes, Zyns, and the occasional drunk cigarette, says Reza Ronaghi, MD, a pulmonologist at UCLA Health
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Each cigarette you smoke shortens your life by an average of 20 minutes, according to a 2024 study in Addiction
