Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death, but physicians aren’t always asking adolescents if they smoke, according to a new Truth Initiative® study.
5 ways cigarette litter impacts the environment
Even as the smoking rate has gone down, cigarette butts seem to be everywhere, scattered along green spaces, sidewalks, roadsides, beaches, waterways—virtually everywhere we go.
So, it may come as no surprise that cigarettes are the most littered item on earth. Worldwide, about 4.5 trillion cigarettes are littered each year. What does all that cigarette waste mean for the environment? Here are the basics about the environmental impact of cigarette butts.
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De Blasio Backs Plan to Lift Base Price of Pack of Cigarettes to $13
Mayor Bill de Blasio pledged his support on Wednesday to a series of initiatives to cut tobacco use, proposing to raise the minimum price of a pack of cigarettes in New York City to $13 and vowing to sharply reduce, over time, the number of stores that may sell tobacco products.
Raising the minimum price of a pack to $13, from the current $10.50 minimum, would make New York the most expensive place in the nation to buy cigarettes, city officials said.
The goal, Mr. de Blasio said, is to persuade or coerce 160,000 of the 900,000 New York City residents who smoke to stop doing so by 2020.
In pushing the anti-tobacco measures, the mayor, more than three years into his term, has come to embrace a major public health movement that was closely associated with his predecessor, Michael R. Bloomberg, who made the city a leader in efforts to reduce tobacco use.
U.S. Surgeon General’s YouTube collaboration on youth use of e-cigarettes
The Surgeon General collaborated with YouTube personalities Rhett & Link to help raise awareness among youth and young adults about how e-cigarettes can affect their health.
The first segment includes an animated video that highlights the “Amazingly Amazing Science” behind nicotine and the growing brain, and will be featured on Rhett & Link’s main show, Good Mythical Morning, which has more than 12 million subscribers. Watch now and share. (Amazingly Amazing Science segment starts at the 11-minute mark.)
The Surgeon General was also invited to talk with Rhett & Link about the animation and to share the facts about e-cigarettes and young people on their companion show, Good Mythical MORE. Watch now and share....
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The Surgeon General was also invited to talk with Rhett & Link about the animation and to share the facts about e-cigarettes and young people on their companion show, Good Mythical MORE. Watch now and share.... 
