Like other PMTA registry bills around the US, this greatly minimized the range of legally available flavors, which are key to helping people quit cigarettes
For example, it has been shown that the milk of smoking mothers has about 23% lower lipid content than the milk of non-smoking mothers
Finding that the vast majority of cases of oral cancer were caused not by the use of snuff or chewing tobacco of tobacco but by smoking cigarettes, Rodu (now professor and endowed chair in tobacco harm reduction research at the Brown Cancer Center of the University of Louisville) proposed a public health strategy to encourage cigarette smokers to switch to moist snuff, which had been cleverly re-named smokeless tobacco [as in smoke less and no smoke] in the late-1970s by the United States Tobacco Company (UST), maker of the best-selling brands SKOAL and Copenhagen
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Research published by the National Institute on Drug Abuse in September 2025 noted that nicotine e-cigarettes work better than NRT for smoking cessation, particularly when provided free as a therapeutic intervention rather than purchased commercially