What the heck is propylene glycol? Propylene glycol is used as a ‘humectant’ which means it maintains moisture levels in food products, cosmetics and tobacco products. Humectants are what make hair conditioning products work as well as create the ‘moisterizing’ effects of many common cosmetics and consumer products we take for granted such as: make [...]
You got to hand it to Big Tobacco. They may called a lot of things but “stupid” is not one of them. A recent Associated Press Article highlights antics Big Tobacco took to circumvent federal tobacco taxes. Shrewd marketing on behalf of Big Tobacco helped them avoid paying hundreds of millions of dollars in tobacco [...]
Very interesting. But ask yourself this – as taxes on cigarettes mount and governments come to rely on these taxes to manage their budgets, what is the likelihood that smoking cessation will honestly be pursued? Whenever a government is funded on the act of smoking it will do what it can to keep that funding [...]
A clinical trial aims at understanding how smoking cessation products such as nicotine gum and the patch might work in conjunction with online cessation programs. (Not yet recruiting participants) We at SmokeShopTalk wonder why electronic cigarettes might not also be a part of that study? One would think that a USB drive and computing data [...]
We found this pretty interesting. Wonder if they’ve ever worked on pro or anti smoking for multicultural audiences.
