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Small pouches containing nicotine are seen scattered across two black tins on a factory production line in Sweden.

Nicotine Pouch Use Is on the Rise

by Lynn T. Kozlowski

A longtime tobacco researcher looks at the question of potentially "less harmful" substitutes for cigarettes

Environment
A close-up photo of the face of Hu Hushen, a 78-year-old former miner, who breathes with the help of extra oxygen at Yangjia Hospital in Zhejiang Province, China, on October 19, 2015.

China's Attack on a Top Industrial Health Hazard

by Yaming You

How China is bringing the devastating lung disease pneumoconiosis to its knees

A man exercises in a park on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, India, on November 9, 2017.
Environment

Every Breath We Take

by Michael Brauer, Susan Anenberg

Air pollution is a pernicious threat linked to millions of deaths each year

A man rides a motorcycle in front of a worker transporting sacks of spices loaded on a bullock cart at a wholesale market in the old quarters of Delhi, India.
Governance

Unknowing Victims

by Chukwuma Okereke, Louisa Ewald, Luisa S. Flor

The risk of secondhand smoke exposure during COVID lockdowns

Parched land is pictured around the Lake Wegnia, in Sahel region of Koulikoro, Mali on November 22, 2019. Picture Shows a lonely tree, small and scrubby with many of its branches dead. It’s in a dry gully with a few other green scrubby bushes scattered in the frame—but mostly nothing but dry yellow dirt and sand everywhere the eye can see off into the distance. REUTERS/Arouna Sissoko
Environment

Weathering the Sahel

by Natalie M. Cormier

The overuse of land packs a punch that promises to get worse over time