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(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Much is known about the use of tobacco products, especially their effects on the health of those who smoke cigarettes. But what federal regulators and researchers know less about is exactly why people start using a specific tobacco product such as cigarettes, cigars, pipes and/or chewing tobacco. They also want to know why and when people stop smoking or using other tobacco products, and why they start up again.
To find some of the missing pieces of that puzzle, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have launched a study of more than 40,000 smokers and non-smokers—the “Population Assessment on Tobacco Health Study (PATH).
Learn more about this major, nationwide study. Read the Consumer Update at: www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm292894.htm.
The FDA, an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, protects the public health by assuring the safety, effectiveness, and security of human and veterinary drugs, vaccines and other biological products for human use, and medical devices. The agency also is responsible for the safety and security of our nation’s food supply, cosmetics, dietary supplements, products that give off electronic radiation, and for regulating tobacco products.
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