Dr. Richard Feldman: Taxing e-cigarettes is the right move
It’s a myth that vaping is safe. More correctly, e-cigarettes have the potential of being less toxic than combusted tobacco.
It’s a myth that vaping is safe. More correctly, e-cigarettes have the potential of being less toxic than combusted tobacco.
The Food and Drug Administration said the vaping device from R.J. Reynolds can help smokers cut back on conventional cigarettes.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company plans to focus on what he described as the next wave of computing: a virtual universe where people will roam freely as avatars, attending virtual business meetings, shopping in virtual stores and socializing at virtual get-togethers.
Eyes will once again be on Indiana to see if lawmakers will loosen the state’s marijuana laws as neighboring states continue to cash in on legal weed.
Vaping products are today’s candy cigarettes.
Quitting cigarettes and other nicotine products is hard, but it is achievable through proven cessation tools.
The 2018 Indiana Youth Tobacco Survey found that more than one-third of Indiana high school students had used a Juul product.
In his latest book, “Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen,” Dan Heath discusses a particularly troubling Icelandic problem: The country was producing one of the heaviest-drinking youth populations in Europe. The associated challenges with this problem were distressful and troublesome. Yet today, Iceland ranks at the top when looking at clean-living European […]
In September, the National Council on Problem Gambling released a study that showed the number of Americans who bet on sports grew by 30 percent in an 18-month period, an increase of 15.3 million bettors.
Rokita declared that he does not believe in the data generated by our health officials. The data so cavalierly rejected by Rokita prove that vaccinations slow the spread of the virus and reduce serious illnesses, hospitalizations and death.
Now, at age 70, after a lifetime of speaking his mind, the Indiana artist doesn’t hesitate to name his adversaries.
“Tax equality would minimize shifts in use to cheaper products, especially among children.”
Now that sports leagues, along with the rest of corporate America, have become more self-conscious about image and operate in a more litigious age, promotions have become … what? More professional? Less ridiculous? It’s all a matter of taste.
The health system said the funding plan will “support community health initiatives and education and workforce development programs statewide, including neighborhoods around its downtown Indianapolis campus.”
The Indiana House and Senate have both approved a measure that would reduce the tax on disposable e-cigarettes from 25% of the wholesale price to 15%.
U.S. cigarette smoking dropped to a new all-time low in 2020, according to survey data released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In its response to lawmakers, IU emphasized the role of public health in health care costs and called on lawmakers to spend more on public health. It pointed to a recent study that ranked Indiana 47th among states in per-person public health funding.
U.S. regulators will soon begin cracking down on vaping companies using a now-closed loophole, including a line of fruit-flavored e-cigarettes that have become teenagers’ top choice.
In a just world, the shift to remote work over the last two years would reward productivity and expose the slackers. But as corporations have been returning to business as usual, guess who can’t wait to get back to the office? Suck-ups, the co-workers we love to hate.
The Food and Drug Administration said eliminating menthol cigarettes could prevent between 300,000 and 650,000 smoking deaths over 40 years.