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Distributors and sellers are also being targeted for their role in purveying flavored cartridge-based e-cigarettes.

Swedish Match will be able to advertise its pouches as posing a lower risk of lung cancer and other illnesses than cigarettes.

The battery-operated faux cigarettes that contain nicotine might increase risk of heart attack and stroke.

Is this alternative to smoking tobacco a friend or foe of health?

This could help explain why schizophrenics are often heavy smokers.

The bottom line is, scientists believe there is still much to be learned about the health risks of e-cigs for smokers and those around them.

Black folks--even those who don’t light up--are exposed to more secondhand smoke than other groups. Here’s why.