Yesterday marked the 36th year that the world observed World No Tobacco Day. This relatively obscure milestone masks a stalled effort to curb consumption of combustible cigarettes and other nicotine-related products. It’s unlikely most people paid any attention. But the impact of smoking is all around us, even if we don’t see it. Statistics rarely tell a provocative story to compel people to action.

threshold, so it’s not unusual to move in and out of the program year to year,” UC Davis Health said in an email....

Medicine, the area of science that has been slowly backed into a corner by insurance reimbursement, is now in another fight for its moral...

It’s curious that we can do great things in the lab to save lives, but we can’t effectively or efficiently coordinate the delivery of information, care, or medicines to consumers.