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FDA OKs sales of Zyn nicotine pouches, citing health benefits for adult smokers

Jan. 16, 2025 15:08 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials on Thursday backed the public health benefits of nicotine pouches, authorizing Philip Morris International’s Zyn to help adult smokers cut back or quit cigarettes. The Food and Drug Administration OK'd 10 Zyn flavors, including coffee,...

Federal health officials authorize Zyn nicotine pouches, citing potential to help adult smokers cut back or quit

Jan. 16, 2025 12:44 PM EST
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials authorize Zyn nicotine pouches, citing potential to help adult smokers cut back or quit.

FDA floats plan to make cigarettes nonaddictive, but its fate rests with Trump

Jan. 15, 2025 16:25 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials on Wednesday released a far-reaching proposal to make cigarettes far less addictive by capping their nicotine content, a goal long sought by antismoking advocates that is unlikely to go into effect anytime soon. The proposed rule from the Food...

Most US teens are abstaining from drinking, smoking and marijuana, survey says

Dec. 17, 2024 11:02 AM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Teen drug use hasn't rebounded from its drop during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the results from a large annual national survey released Tuesday. About two-thirds of 12th graders this year said they hadn’t used alcohol, marijuana,...