While smoking doesnt directly increase your risk of multiple myeloma, it harms your overall health, increases your risk of developing other types of cancer, and can interfere with your cancer treatment
And the outbreak is showing that this approach isnt doing enough to keep consumers safe, Scott Gottlieb, the former head of FDA, argued in the Wall Street Journal recently: Federal agencies exert little oversight, and regulation is left to a patchwork of inadequate state agencies
Cigarette smoking can cause 12 types of cancer, heart disease, lung disease, and other harmful diseases
Furthermore, the results of the 2019-2020 California Student Tobacco Survey, which was conducted after the enforcement of the flavor ban and showed that the prevalence of cigarette smoking among San Francisco high schoolers was 1.6% (compared with 4.7% based on the San Francisco 2017 YRBSS data), indicating that the flavor ban had not inadvertently increased youth smoking