This one comes with the classic twist – a bad news along with good one. Smoking rates have generally declined since the 1960s, in 2022, approximately 11.6% of US adults were current cigarette smokers, ...

Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy. Nearly 29 million Americans regularly smoke cigarettes, a drastic decline from 1964, when more than 40 percent of ...

Nicotine is much less harmful than the tobacco that naturally contains it. It has never been found to cause cancer. Nor does it cause other smokers’ diseases such as emphysema. But it is, of course, ...