The Rest of the Story: Tobacco and Alcohol News Analysis and Commentary

Why are so many anti-tobacco groups attacking electronic cigarettes (and to some degree nicotine pouches) but saying little about the risks ...

The Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organization's (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) met recently to up...

The American Lung Association has long been trumpeting the falsehood that quitting smoking by switching to electronic cigarettes isn't q...

A campaign being run by youth in Wisconsin who are part of a group called FACT is urging their fellow youth to complain to legislators abou...

The role of the tobacco control movement should be to increase the public's and policy makers' understanding of the health effects o...

New data from the New York State Department of Health show that youth cigarette smoking is at its lowest level in recorded history (meaning...

Yesterday, I discussed what I believe is a mischaracterization by Dr. Stan Glantz of the scientific evidence on the relative risks of smok...

On his blog, Professor Stan Glantz, a highly respected researcher in the anti-tobacco field (and a former mentor, role model, and hero of ...

The FDA is planning to  fast-track applications for the marketing of nicotine pouches, according to Reuters. Nicotine pouches are much safe...

Taylor Millard has written a very nice piece at Inside Sources which reports the results of a new survey showing that a tragically low per...

For the purposes of fairness and completeness, I am sharing the response from study authors to my criticism of the recently published clini...

Last week, I explained that a recent clinical trial of very low nicotine cigarettes for pregnant smokers was unethical because neither the...

A clinical trial published last week in the journal Preventive Medicine  randomized pregnant women who smoked to either continue smoking th...

In an article posted late last month on Medscape , a physician claimed that using even a single vape can cause severe and irreversible lung...

Opponents of tobacco harm reduction (i.e., vaping) have argued for years that the dramatic declines in youth smoking we have observed in rec...

According to an article published two days ago by the American Medical Association, a person who quits smoking completely but still uses no...

A new study published in the journal Tobacco Control purports to show that the immense decline in youth smoking over the past decade had n...

An electronic cigarette researcher from Auckland University's Bio Engineering Institute is telling the public that when people use e-cig...

Product A is a flavored product that appeals to youth and has rapidly gained in popularity among youth. Product B is a flavored product that...