Some of TikTok’s biggest social media stars have partnered with Truth Initiative to encourage teens to kick vaping as a habit.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Experts say there is a need for better strategies for helping people transition away from all forms of nicotine, including vapes ...

In a world-first scheme of its kind, smokers in England are being urged to swap cigarettes for vapes, with pregnant women being offered financial incentives to help them quit, as part of an effort to ...

In an effort to get young adults to quit vaping, the state Department of Public Health has launched a new ad campaign that centers on empathy and resource sharing, which local experts say has been ...

One million smokers in the UK will be given a vape starter kit and support as part of a government scheme to encourage them to give up tobacco. The Swap To Stop scheme will be announced today by UK ...

Sarah Todd returned to reporting in January 2025 after being assignment editor at STAT since October 2022. You can reach Sarah on Signal at sarahlizchar.47. The young people who wanted to quit ...

If one of your resolutions was to quit smoking, vaping might be just the thing you need. New research shows that people who start using e-cigarettes stop smoking tobacco cigarettes entirely. The ...

Among tobacco users in the U.S., the idea that vaping helps people quit smoking has become popular. But new scientific findings challenge that belief. In a large national study, researchers found that ...

The harms of smoking cigarettes are pretty clear. Smoking causes cancer as well as heart and lung diseases, and it’s the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. When it comes to ...

Vaping was sold as the safe alternative to smoking. The evidence is now telling a more complicated – and more worrying – story.