Foods high in added fats and refined carbs are like cigarettes – addictive and unhealthy

Ultra-processed foods meet the same criteria for addictiveness that tobacco products do – and they’ve even been marketed in similar ways.

Ashley Gearhardt, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan • conversation
Nov. 18, 2021 • ~11 min

New Evidence Suggests Humans Used Tobacco 12,000 Years Ago
VOA Learning English • voa
Oct. 24, 2021 • ~4 min

Graphic cigarette warnings could have saved up to a million lives

Graphic warning labels on cigarette packs, originally planned to roll out in 2012, could have prevented hundreds of thousands of smoking-related deaths.

Nardy Baeza Bickel-Michigan • futurity
Sept. 29, 2021 • ~7 min

Telehealth can help smokers in rural prisons quit

Telehealth visits with tobacco treatment specialists may help smokers in rural prisons quit tobacco smoking.

Patti Verbanas-Rutgers • futurity
Sept. 22, 2021 • ~4 min

Menthol cigarette ban could save 650,000 lives by 2060

Banning menthol flavors in cigarettes could lead to 16,250 fewer tobacco-related deaths per year by 2060—that's 650,000 lives saved in the next 40 years.

Nardy Baeza Bickel-Michigan • futurity
Sept. 8, 2021 • ~5 min

Lab–grown and plant–based meat: the science, psychology and future of meat alternatives – podcast

Plus, new research from Indonesia on the relationship between cigarette advertising near schools and children smoking.

Daniel Merino, Assistant Science Editor & Co-Host of The Conversation Weekly Podcast • conversation
July 15, 2021 • ~4 min

These factors raise the risk of nicotine dependence

New research clarifies why some people can quit nicotine easily, while others develop a lasting habit.

Carol Clark-Emory • futurity
July 8, 2021 • ~8 min

Did a ban on flavored tobacco push teens to cigarettes?

A ban on flavored tobacco in San Francisco may have had unintended consequences. Cigarette use among teens where the ban took place doubled.

Michael Greenwood-Yale • futurity
June 1, 2021 • ~6 min

Vape sellers are using popular music videos to promote e-cigarettes to young people – and it's working

Product placement in music videos totals $15 million to $20 million a year and is rising. E-cigarette makers are discovering it's a great way to lure young adults into vaping.

Jon-Patrick Allem, Assistant Professor of Research, University of Southern California • conversation
April 6, 2021 • ~8 min

Menthol cigarettes linked to 10M more smokers

A new study links menthol cigarettes to 10 million extra smokers and 378,000 premature deaths in the US between 1980 to 2018.

Nardy Baeza Bickel-Michigan • futurity
March 2, 2021 • ~5 min

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