BLACKSBURG, Va., May 15 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
Health warnings first appeared on cigarette packaging 60 years ago. Researchers and health professional have described tobacco as addictive since the 1970s.
Yet nearly 50 million people in the United States - 1 in 5 adults - still report using tobacco, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Scientists and regulators work on ways to discourage tobacco use while the tobacco industry continues to make products more appealing and accessible.
"It's a patchwork approach to regulation," said Roberta Freitas-Lemos, assistant professor and a tobacco researcher at Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research Instit...