Thursday, March 22, 2012

Former Secretary of HEW Joseph A. Califano, Jr. Criticizes Surgeon General's Report for Political, Not Scientific Treatment of Menthol

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In a Huffington Post column , former HEW Secretary and Chairman Emeritus of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at ...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Conflicted Joint Commission Panelist Continues Push for Prescriptions for Every Hospitalized Smoker, As Physician Backlash Begins: Is Conflict Known?

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In an article published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine , Dr. Michael Fiore and colleagues defend the new Joint Commission...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Why I Am Doing This: A Message from an Electronic Cigarette Smoker

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Dear Dr. Siegel: Last Feb 2011 my lung function was measured at 60% and blood/oxygen was dangerously low. I then tried E-Cigs and have not h...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) Sacrifices Scientific Integrity for Money: Accepts Big Pharma Sponsorships for Annual Meeting

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The Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) holds its annual meeting this week in Houston. According to the program , major topi...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012

FDA Press Statement on Surgeon General's Report Highlights FDA Actions to Protect Youth From Cigarettes ... Which is Bupkes

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The FDA last week issued a press statement in response to the release of the Surgeon General's report on youth smoking. The statement h...
Monday, March 12, 2012

Another Nail in the Coffin for Menthol Ban: Surgeon General's Report Fails to Recommend Any Action on Menthol

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Last week, I described what I view as a nail in the coffin for any possible FDA ban on menthol cigarettes: a new FDA study showing that men...
Friday, March 09, 2012

Canadian Cancer Society Argues that Outdoor Park Smoking Bans are Necessary to Prevent Children from Even Seeing a Smoker

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According to an article in the Toronto Star , the Canadian Cancer Society is supporting broad bans on smoking in outdoor places, including ...
Thursday, March 08, 2012

Hertfordshire Smokers and Obese Individuals No Longer Eligible for Routine Surgery, According to The Telegraph

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According to an article in the The Telegraph , a ban on hip or knee replacement surgery for smokers and persons with a body mass index grea...
Wednesday, March 07, 2012

Menthol Cigarette Ban Dying a Slow Death, As Predicted; New Study Shows Lower Lung Cancer Risk Among Menthol Cigarette Smokers

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I have predicted for more than a year that the FDA's consideration of the menthol issue would not result in a ban on menthol cigarettes....
Tuesday, March 06, 2012

Chick-fil-A Borrows a Page from American Dietetic Association and American Academy of Pediatrics Playbook in Defending Its Support of Anti-Gay Groups

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Last week, the Northeastern University Student Senate voted to rescind plans to bring a Chick-fil-A to campus because of the company's ...
Monday, March 05, 2012

FDA and DHHS Harm their Own Case by Pushing Political Propaganda and Over-hyping Significance of Graphic Warning Labels on Cigarettes

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At a press conference to announce the new graphic warning labels on cigarettes in 2010, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (D...
Friday, March 02, 2012

Anti-Smoking Movement Gone Too Far?

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Charles Adler has produced a segment on this question for Sun News (Canada). A guest who you may know appears at about the 50-second mark.
Thursday, March 01, 2012

District Court Rules Against FDA, Blocks Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels

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Yesterday, a federal district court judge issued what amounts to a permanent injunction against the FDA's implementation of its graphic...
Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Master Settlement Agreement Causing Major Budget Woes for States; Further Evidence that MSA Was a Public Health Blunder by the Attorneys General

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In 1998, the Attorneys General of 46 states praised themselves for having negotiated a litigation settlement with Big Tobacco that they said...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Decries Tobacco Industry Role in Trade Talks; But Has No Problem Negotiating Federal Tobacco Policy with Big Tobacco

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In a statement issued late last week, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids decried the involvement of the tobacco industry in trade policy ne...
Monday, February 27, 2012

Yet Another Study Shows that Nicotine Replacement Therapy Has Not Improved Population Cessation Rates

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A new study published in the journal Tobacco Control concludes that the proliferation of smoking quit lines and the greatly increased use ...