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Instructor: CoraLynn B. Trewet, MS, PharmD, BCPS, CDE Clinical Professor, University of Iowa College of Pharmacy Introduction Heart disease is the cause for one of every three deaths in the United States. Every 25 seconds someone experiences a coronary...

On May 5, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration finalized a rule known as the Deeming Regulation, extending its authority under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, or Tobacco Act, to all tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes...

On Monday, the FDA will issue a new rule whose intent is to clarify the conditions under which electronic cigarettes will be regulated as drugs instead of as tobacco products. Essentially, this amounts to a rule regarding what claims electronic cigarette...

Winning the War Against Nicotine Addiction Smoking cessation is a war that can take many battles to successfully win. Often, a smoker’s first attempt will result in relapse. The important thing, however, is to continue efforts to defeat nicotine addiction...

Cigarette smokers in the United States have been under steady attack. To smoke is no longer considered glamorous, cool or socially acceptable. Smokers are confronted and shamed by non-smokers and have been banished to huddle and inhale in remote locations...