Wednesday, April 02, 2025

My Testimony Before the Rhode Island Senate Finance Committee on S543 - A Bill to Allow the Sale of Electronic Cigarettes at Adult-only Vape Shops

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I had the pleasure yesterday of testifying before the Rhode Island Senate Finance Committee on bill S543, introduced by Senator DiPalma, whi...
Sunday, March 09, 2025

CDC Tells Public that Saving Millions of Lives is Offset by Youth Ripping Some Tobacco-Free, Smokeless Vapes

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The CDC's Office on Smoking and Health (where I worked for two years as an EIS Officer in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Heal...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Researchers of Severely Flawed Study Conclude that Vaping is Just as Harmful as Smoking and Causes Heart Disease and Dementia

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According to an article published yesterday in the Daily Mail , researchers from Manchester Metropolitan University have conducted a study ...
Monday, February 24, 2025

CDC Needs to Stop Calling E-Cigarettes "Tobacco Products"

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) web site on youth e-cigarette use begins: " E-cigarettes are the most common...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Iowa Health Says There's No Real Difference Between Vaping and Smoking

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According to the Iowa Health web site , " Overall, there’s not much difference between smoking and vaping. " The site goes on to e...
Thursday, February 13, 2025

New Study Demonstrates Why Anti-Vape Academics are Wrong in Concluding that E-Cigarette Use Causes Heart Attacks and COPD

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Numerous researchers and health groups have claimed that e-cigarette use increases the risk of heart attacks and COPD ( example 1 ; example ...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

New Study Shows that E-Cigarettes Help Young Adult Smokers to Quit

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A new study published yesterday in the journal Addiction provides evidence that rather than serving as a gateway to smoking, the use of e-...
Tuesday, February 04, 2025

Science by Press Release: Researchers Claim that E-Cigarette Use Increases Heart Failure by 19% But Fail to Provide Data to Back It Up

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In a press release issued last April by the American College of Cardiology, researchers of a new study claimed that people who use e-cigare...
Thursday, January 30, 2025

American Medical Association Claims that E-Cigarettes Can Cause Several Types of Cancer

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The American Medical Association (AMA) yesterday claimed that electronic cigarettes cause not just one type of cancer, but multiple types.  ...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Concerned About Dual Users? Then You May Want to Take NRT Products Off the Market

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One of the major arguments that the major national health organizations make against the use of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation is that m...
Monday, January 20, 2025

Why Isn't the American Lung Association Calling for the Removal of Flavored NRT Nicotine Gum from the Market?

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In its statement responding to the FDA's approval of Zyn nicotine pouches for marketing in the United States, the American Lung Associa...