In 2021(among all New Jersey adults), 4.1 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds, 12.6 percent of 2544-year-olds, 13 percent of 4564-year-olds, and 8.2 percent of adults aged 65 years or older were currently smoking combustible cigarettes
Countries such as New Zealand and Czechia officially embraced a harm reduction approach as a complementary policy to address the issue of smoking and accelerate its decline
Further, the emergence of e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury (EVALI) that has resulted in 60 deaths and 2,711 hospitalizations as of January 21, 2020 10 has raised concern among public health stakeholders, Congress, and the general public
While addiction is the primary health concern with nicotine use in adults, we know that nicotine exposure is harmful for pregnant women and youth
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