Because they don’t actually contain tobacco, nicotine pouches may be viewed as safer than smoking cigarettes, using smokeless ...

After a few vigorous puffs of a burning cigarette, a smoker’s lungs will be filled with a toxic cloud of more than 5,000 different substances. Their combined effects on health are well known: cancer, ...

As the psychoactive ingredient in tobacco products — not to mention increasingly popular e-cigarettes for vaping — nicotine has long been associated with risk and danger. But now the addictive ...

Massachusetts health officials recently offered startling news about cigarettes. It seems the nicotine content in cigarette smoke is on the rise. Debbie Elliott speaks with health researchers about ...

The number of young children sickened after getting their little hands on nicotine products like pouches and vape e-liquids has skyrocketed in recent years. From 2010 through 2023, U.S. poison centers ...

The Bombay High Court has approved the sale of herbal hookah in restaurants, allowing businesses to operate without police ...

How long nicotine stays in your system depends on factors like smoking frequency. Antioxidants from food like garlic can ...

David Gomez, a school resource officer for the Boise County Sheriff’s Office in Idaho, started noticing caffeine pouches last spring. Students were using the pillow-shaped pouches, which can contain ...

The blood test that detects nicotine is called a cotinine test. It measures recent tobacco use and exposure. Cotinine is a chemical that comes from the breakdown of nicotine in the body. A blood test ...