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Tobacco giant Philip Morris International has just bought the rights to a new technology for delivering nicotine in a aerosol spray. The upside: Nicotine addicts get their fix without all the toxins associated with smoking. The downside: It'll be at least three years before it hits the market.
As More Homes Become Smoke-Free, Fewer Children Get Ear Infections
11:00AM 1/31/2011
The message about the dangers of secondhand smoke and the importance of providing smoke-free homes has paid off. Fewer children visited a doctor or a hospital for ear infections in the 13 years of research from Harvard School of Public Health and the TobaccoFree Research Institute Ireland.
FDA Sends Warning Letters to Electronic Cigarette Makers
6:10PM 9/09/2010
The FDA issued warning letters to five electronic cigarette distributors, saying the products are being marketed illegally as safer alternatives to smoking and even as smoking-cessation aids. The agency says they must seek FDA approval in order to continue making those claims.
In a move headed for the Irony Hall of Fame, No. 2 tobacco marketer Reynolds American (RAI), parent of R.J. Reynolds, announced Wednesday that it's buying Niconovum, a Swedish marketer of smoking-cessation products, for $44 million.
It's a sea change from recent decades, when tobacco companies...
GlaxoSmithKline signs smoking vaccine licensing agreement with Nabi
4:50PM 11/16/2009
Not two months after the Swiss start-up Cytos's experimental anti-smoking vaccine failed in a mid-stage study, Nabi Biopharmaceuticals (NABI) and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) have signed a licensing agreement for Nabi's own anti-smoking vaccine, NicVAX. The deal, which could potentially be worth more than...
Nicotine patches for Massachusetts residents
3:00AM 11/11/2008
With Massachusetts set to increase the tax on cigarettes by $1 per pack over the next few months, the Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program is offering free stop-smoking kits with nicotine patches. From the press release: Beginning July 1, 2008, the Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program will offer...
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