NEW YORK — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still has an Alzheimer’s disease program. Congress appropriated $41 million to it this year. There’s just no one staffing it. Then there’s the agency’s Office on Smoking and Health. Congress allocated $246 million for that. Its staffers were cut, too. Same for the epilepsy program.
At the beginning of this year, I picked up a rather unfortunate habit: vaping. More specifically, I started smoking flavored vaporizers made in the so-called “Vape Valley” of China and sold throughout the United States. Flavored nicotine vaporizers are largely illegal in the United States, yet convenience stores and tobacconists across the country have generated
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On June 30, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized 20 ZYN nicotine pouch products to carry a specific “modified risk” statement. This means that in the US, ZYN can now claim that “using ZYN instead of cigarettes reduces the risk of oral cancer, heart disease, lung cancer, stroke, emphysema, and chronic bronchitis.” The decision