Read article – Continued coverage of a study led by Samir Soneji, assistant professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, that found that while e-cigarettes may help some smokers quit, they seem to do a better job of encouraging never-smokers to pick up the habit.

Read article – Continued coverage of a study led by Samir Soneji, assistant professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, that found that vaping has led more people to start smoking real cigarettes than to stop.

Read article – Quotes Lisa Marsch, director of the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health and professor of psychiatry and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in an article clarifying research she led on New Hampshire’s opioid crisis after President Donald Trump cited the study in recent speech in Manchester.

Read article – Continued coverage of a study led by Samir Soneji, assistant professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, that found that vaping has led more people to start smoking real cigarettes than to stop. (Similar coverage in Daily Trust, Strait Times, and Pharmaceutical Journal.)

Read article – The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) has announced it will host the 9th International Comics and Medicine Conference from August 16 to 18. CCS has partnered with local medical facilities, including the Geisel School of Medicine and the White River Junction VA Medical Center, as part of its Applied Cartooning Initiative, which explores how comics can influence health, business, public policy and education.

Read article – Continued coverage of a study led by Samir Soneji, assistant professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, that found that while e-cigarettes may help some smokers quit, they seem to do a better job of encouraging never-smokers to pick up the habit. Specifically, Soneji and his colleagues estimated that smoking e-cigs in 2014 led about 2,070 current smokers to quit the following year, but that 168,000 people ages 12 to 29 who’d never smoked before would start smoking cigarettes and become daily users between the ages of 35 and 39.

Read article – Continued coverage of a study conducted by researchers at the Geisel School of Medicine that found that teens who try vaping are at a far higher risk of becoming smokers compared with teens who don’t.

Read article – Continued coverage of a study lead by Samir Soneji, assistant professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, that found that e-cigarettes may be doing more harm than good—especially when it comes to teens. (Similar coverage in Business Insider, Yahoo! News U.K., Newsmax, Doctors Lounge, and Kaiser Health News.)

Read article – An opinion piece by Cassie Kosarek, Geisel ’20, in which she shares tips on how to decide between medical schools on Second Look days.

Read article – Continued coverage of a study led by Samir Soneji, assistant professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, that found that while e-cigarettes may help some smokers quit, they seem to do a better job of encouraging never-smokers to pick up the habit. Specifically, Soneji and his colleagues estimated that smoking e-cigs in 2014 led about 2,070 current smokers to quit the following year, but that 168,000 people ages 12 to 29 who’d never smoked before would start smoking cigarettes and become daily users between the ages of 35 and 39. (Similar coverage in Bloomberg, Fortune, Mercury News, Daily Mail, UPI, Medical News Today, and Observer.)