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Medicare moves to pay doctors more for smoking cessation advice
ByFinance Mentor July 18, 2026

Pretty much everyone who cares about public health agrees that it’s a good idea to help people quit smoking, the No. 1 cause of preventable death in the U.S. Doctors may soon get some extra encouragement to lend a hand, thanks to proposed changes in Medicare’s physician fee schedules. Physicians who offer counseling on quitting…

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Microplastic risk in Zyn pouches: Scientist questions FDA approval
ByFinance Mentor July 14, 2026

Four years into the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s review of Zyn nicotine pouches, and not long before the agency approved them for sale, an FDA toxicologist ran some informal tests in her kitchen that led her to question whether the agency truly understood the addictive product it was about to green-light. Christy Leppanen worked…

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