Nicotine & Tobacco Archives

Smoking Pipe Tobacco: Exposure and Health

While often assumed to be safer than smoking cigarettes, smoking pipe tobacco is still very harmful and can cause cancer and other health problems.

Advancing Tobacco Control Practices To Prevent Initiation of Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults, Eliminate Exposure to Secondhand Smoke, and Identify and Eliminate Tobacco- Related Disparities: Request for Information.

February 11, 2019 Tobacco use among youth and young adults is a large health concern. NCHR wrote a comment to the CDC regarding efforts to minimize usage among this population.

NCHR Comment on the USPSTF’s Draft Recommendations for Tobacco and Nicotine Use Prevention in Children and Adolescents: Primary Care Interventions

July 21, 2017. We support many of the methodological proposals included in USPSTF’s draft research plan to study the impact of interventions to prevent and reduce tobacco and nicotine use in children and adolescents. However, the draft approach would not evaluate the effectiveness of specific types of interventions on subgroups of children and adolescents. We strongly recommend making the above changes to strengthen the utility of the research findings that USPSTF will rely on for its recommendations.

Nonprofit Groups’ Letter to Secretary Price on the Tobacco “Deeming Rule”

May 17, 2017. In light of the overwhelming record evidence compiled by the FDA, there is no public health justification for the FDA to reconsider the deeming rule, or to postpone the implementation of its provisions.

Patient, Consumer, and Public Health Coalition Comments on Proposed Rule to Allow FDA to Regulate All Tobacco Products

August 8, 2014. As members of the Patient, Consumer, and Public Health Coalition we are writing to comment on various aspects of the proposed rule to extend FDA’s jurisdiction to tobacco (including made or derived from tobacco) products other than cigarettes, including e-cigarettes. It is essential that the proposed rule be strengthened, since nicotine is highly addictive.