The Center for Disease Control and Prevention's "Tips From Former Smokers" ads are set to stop at the end of September. For 13 years, these tough and honest commercials told real stories about the ...

'Tips From Former Smokers' ads will end in September after 13 years The ads encouraged millions to give up tobacco and helped more than a million succeed Public health experts warn ending the ads ...

During Sunday’s Grammys, two public service ads made a jarring argument for quitting smoking: Essentially, that Big Tobacco hates black people. The commercials, which could have cost more than $1 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A 2012 national TV ad campaign that featured real people living with diseases and injuries caused by smoking was tied to 1.6 million smokers making quit attempts and over ...

Although tobacco smoking is declining worldwide, there are still over 1.25 billion smokers worldwide (or 1 in 5 adults).

Number of calls to 1-800-QUIT-NOW, a toll-free number that helps people quit smoking, last week — the first week of the CDC’s $54 million graphic antismoking ad campaign. The phone line had received ...

No wonder it's so hard to stop smoking. Not only is nicotine addictive, but so, in a sense, are cigarette ads. Researchers at UCLA report that advertisements for cigarettes light up in the memory of ...

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 27, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will stop airing its “Tips From Former Smokers” ads at the end of September, ending a 13-year ...

The campaign saved billions of dollars in health care costs by preventing smoking-related illnesses. HealthDay News — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will stop airing its “Tips ...

Research shows the campaign led to millions of attempts to stop smoking and more than 1 million long-term quits between 2012 and 2023. HealthDay News — The US Centers for Disease Control and ...