China Daily explores how a new anti-smoking initiative in China targets the country’s medical professionals. According to the newspaper, “China is the world’s largest tobacco producer and consumer,” with “350 million smokers, plus 450 million people exposed to second-hand smoke.” Annually, 1 million deaths are smoking-related, according to China’s Ministry of Health.

The Congressional Budget Office has so far “failed to attribute any savings to increased efforts to provide preventive efforts like stop-smoking programs,” challenging the notion that preventive care saves money for the health care system, NPR reports. “Former CBO health analyst Joe Antos, now at the American Enterprise Institute, says preventive services often cost more than they save.

New US legislation granting the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) jurisdiction over tobacco products represents a serious compromise on the part of tobacco control advocates, argues a new essay in this week’s open access journal PLoS Medicine.

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Cold turkey is one way many people choose to kick the smoking habit for good. This is done without the assistance of nicotine replacement therapy and without weaning off of cigarettes.

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