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Rich Pedroncelli/AP PhotoThe settlement funds are the result of thousands of lawsuits filed against a host of health care companies, including Johnson & Johnson, McKesson, CVS Health, and Walmart, for aggressively promoting and distributing painkillers. -
sipa/pixabay.comA new ban on flavored tobacco products is accelerating a decline in nicotine tax revenue that funds California鈥檚 early childhood services. Some programs are already making cuts.
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As California鈥檚 top law enforcement official, Attorney General Rob Bonta has plenty of leeway for his to-do list. This week, he鈥檚 using his powers widely on some hot-button issues. -
A bill to phase out all tobacco sales in California has been shelved, and anti-tobacco groups won鈥檛 say why they didn鈥檛 offer support. The bill was amended to focus on enforcing an existing ban on flavored tobacco. -
The question of why the California ban on flavored tobacco products would grant hookah smokers an exception while banning menthol cigarettes, the choice of 85% of African American smokers, has sparked a debate about which tobacco products 鈥� if any 鈥� merit protection. -
California鈥檚 third-largest city banished flavored tobacco products from store shelves this summer, joining scores of other cities and counties in the state in a public health push to reduce nicotine addiction among youths and young adults. This fall, voters will decide on a proposed statewide ban. -
Many tobacco smokers in Oregon will now have to pay higher taxes for cigarettes and e-cigarettes, put into effect January 1. -
Even the people who resist making New Year's resolutions may be inclined to think in terms of "turning a page" into a new year, and changing some鈥� -
We do not schedule guests for Wednesday at 8:30, because that's the time for VENTSday, your chance to vent (politely, please) on a pair of topics in the鈥�
