The mayor on Wednesday announced his support for a package of City Council bills aimed at cutting the number of smokers by 160,000 by 2020 including hiking the minimum price for a pack from $10.50 to $13, capping the number of retailers in each neighborhood that can sell tobacco, banning pharmacies like Duane Reade from selling smokes, and regulating e-cigarettes in the same way as cigarettes
Any further increase in crime will be a burden on our already strained resources. Hochuls proposed ban comes in the wake of a lax state law legalizing weed, and as the citys Sheriffs Office struggles to stop smoke shops from illegally selling pot and other cannabis products, including with a direct appeal for help from Mayor Adams
In a study conducted in our lab at the University of East London (Dawkins et al., 2012), abstinent smokers given a 0 mg (placebo) e-cigarette reported comparable reduction in craving and withdrawal symptoms after five minutes of use to those given 16 mg nicotine
We break down the tentative connection, assess the effects of different e-fluids, and more
