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title: Smoke Detectors
date: 2014-02-07T03:00:00-05:00
author: University of Maryland
canonical_url: "https://terp.umd.edu/smoke-detectors"
section: Articles
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# Smoke Detectors

*February 7, 2014* — by [David Kohn](/authors/david-kohn)


> Researchers Awarded $19M to Study Tobacco’s Toxicity, Bacteria, Addictiveness

The evidence is clear: Smoking is bad for you. But which cigarette brand is worst? And are newer products (such as electronic cigarettes and the snuff variant snus) any safer?

Answers are on the way. A five-year, $19 million grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health has helped launch the University of Maryland Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science to study these topics.


*In Brief smoking*




**Issue:** [Winter 2014](https://terp.umd.edu/editions/winter-2014)


**Types:** [In Brief](https://terp.umd.edu/category/in-brief)