“They don’t set out to reignite an epidemic of teen smoking ... shared interest in the impact of cigarettes, the two launched Ploom in 2010, a “small, dark, and handsome” e-cigarette ...

E-cigarettes are battery-operated devices used for a type of smoking called vaping. They produce a vapor that’s inhaled deep into the lungs, mimicking the feeling of smoking tobacco cigarettes.

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If cigarettes contained very little of the chemical that keeps people smoking, it could help smokers move away from these deadly products. That’s the rationale behind a new rule proposed on ...

Cigarette smoking among Americans has plummeted to an all-time low, with only 11 percent of U.S. adults saying they have smoked cigarettes in the past week, according to a new Gallup poll.