Low income individuals are more likely to use tobacco products and would take the brunt of the tobacco tax increase
Developed by tobacco giant Philip Morris International, IQOS devices heat tobacco elements to a lower temperature instead of burning them, helping to release fewer toxins
Areas of Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina are in the Sheetz belt, but the heart of its empire is Western and Central Pennsylvania, where a Sheetz is stationed at almost every highway exit and the Sheetz parking lot serves as an after-hours town square
By showing that smoking cessation results in a greater gain in life expectancy than ART initiation at higher CD4+ T-cell counts or improved adherence to ART, there should be renewed urgency to implement smoking cessation programs, thereby continuing to shift the paradigm of HIV care to the increasingly important prevention of comorbidities after ART initiation, Althoff wrote
