Country Profiles: Global Trends in Prevalence of Tobacco Use, 2000-2025

This data publication from the World Health Organization (WHO) summarizes the latest global trends in the prevalence of tobacco use. This report presents estimates of tobacco use prevalence for 2022 and includes projected trends to the year 2030. The report presents global, regional, and country-level data estimates and trends, analyzing number of tobacco users, types of tobacco products used, and patterns by age and sex. The report provides data on progress towards meeting tobacco use…

This report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine provides a comprehensive and systematic review of the evidence about e-cigarettes and health. It describes the toxicology of nicotine and other ingredients of e-cigarettes; discusses their potential for dependence and abuse as well as their negative effects on cardiovascular diseases, cancers, respiratory diseases, oral diseases, developmental and reproductive health, and injuries and poisonings; and explores the public health implications of e-cigarettes among youth and…

This article in Vox describes the U.S. policy decision in December 2019 to raise the minimum age to buy tobacco products—including cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and vaping products with nicotine—from 18 to 21. This move represents a months-long bipartisan process, emerging from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and also through an end-of-year federal spending bill in Congress. Public health professionals are hopeful that this federal law will help prevent teens—the population most likely to become addicted—from…