Contrary to their intended role as cessation tools for adult smokers, novel tobacco and nicotine products have gained considerable popularity among younger populations, including non-smokers, who initiate nicotine dependence by using these products 5-7
Long-Term Effects of Smoking Smoking cigarettes, vaping, and secondhand smoke exposure can cause serious long-term health issues like lung cancer, heart disease, and respiratory illnesses
Formerly operating through GTC (General Tobacco Company), this operation was significantly destroyed through the civil war that began in 2014 and is ongoing
What ITC website visitors are not told is that smoking nicotine is highly addictive, that 80-90 percent of all lung cancers are attributable to smoking, or that 40-50 percent of ITC's nicotine addicts smoke themselves to death, with up to one-quarter dying during middle-age