U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb announced plans to advance a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to ban menthol in combustible tobacco products, including cigarettes and cigars, and remove certain flavored vaping …
Month: November 2018
U.S. Smoking Rate Down to 14%
Cigarette smoking has reached the lowest level ever recorded among U.S. adults, according to new data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the National …
UW-CTRI Outreach Team Takes Quit Line eReferral to Health Systems
UW-CTRI’s four regional outreach specialists are working to expand the number of health-care systems across the state that refer patients via electronic health records (EHR) to the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line. This builds on several partnerships …
National Cancer Centers Meet in Wisconsin, Help Patients Quit Smoking
The nationwide Cancer Center Cessation Initiative (C3I), part of the NCI Cancer Moonshot Initiative, held a grantee meeting at the Pyle Center in Madison, Wisconsin. Representatives from 42 NCI cancer centers (the grantees) attended, along with …