Sunday, March 08, 2026

Study Claiming that Vaping Causes Lung Cancer Fails to Document that a Single Case Occurred After the Person Started Vaping

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An article published recently in the journal Frontiers in Oncology concluded that vaping causes lung cancer among young adults (age <50...
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Saturday, March 07, 2026

Findings from the 2025 National Youth Tobacco Survey that Anti-Nicotine Groups Don't Want You to Know

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Earlier this week, the FDA released the data from its 2025 National Youth Tobacco Survey. This is a public use dataset so it is freely avai...
Monday, February 02, 2026

Smoke-Free Products Nearing 50% of the Nicotine Market Thanks to Tobacco and Vaping Companies But In Spite of the Actions of Most Tobacco Control Groups

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A new report from the nation's leading tobacco market expert - Bonnie Herzog at Goldman Sachs - reveals that smoke-free nicotine product...
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Saturday, January 31, 2026

Massachusetts Association of Health Boards Wants to Ban the Use of Flavored E-Cigarettes, by ANYONE

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The Massachusetts Association of Health Boards (MAHB) has disseminated a model nicotine regulation policy  that it is recommending be adopte...
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

End of Year Thoughts: Why are So Many Anti-Tobacco Groups Attacking a Product with Few Acute Risks, But Saying Nothing About Truly Risky Tobacco Products?

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Why are so many anti-tobacco groups attacking electronic cigarettes (and to some degree nicotine pouches) but saying little about the risks ...
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Thursday, December 11, 2025

World Health Organization Explicitly Rejects Harm Reduction in Tobacco Control, Endangering Millions of Lives Worldwide

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The Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organization's (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) met recently to up...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Many Tobacco Control Organizations are Asserting that Quitting Smoking is Not Quitting Smoking if You Use E-Cigarettes to Quit

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The American Lung Association has long been trumpeting the falsehood that quitting smoking by switching to electronic cigarettes isn't q...
Friday, November 14, 2025

American Lung Association Directs Youth to Complain about Seeing People Use Nicotine Pouches in Workplaces

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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...

Misinformation from Anti-Vaping Groups is Causing Increasing False Beliefs among Policy Makers

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The role of the tobacco control movement should be to increase the public's and policy makers' understanding of the health effects o...
Sunday, November 09, 2025

New Data from New York State Show that Youth Smoking is at Its Lowest Level in Recorded History; Anti-Nicotine Groups Continue to Claim that Vaping is a Gateway to Smoking

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New data from the New York State Department of Health show that youth cigarette smoking is at its lowest level in recorded history (meaning...
Monday, November 03, 2025

Why is Dr. Glantz Calling a Letter from an Independent Public Health Practitioner an "Aggressive Lobbying Effort" by the Tobacco Industry?

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Yesterday, I discussed what I believe is a mischaracterization by Dr. Stan Glantz of the scientific evidence on the relative risks of smok...
Friday, October 31, 2025

Prominent Anti-Vaping Advocate is Misrepresenting Scientific Evidence and Being Unnecessarily Divisive, Polarizing, and Disrespectful

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On his blog, Professor Stan Glantz, a highly respected researcher in the anti-tobacco field (and a former mentor, role model, and hero of ...
Monday, September 08, 2025

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Decries Supposed Fast-Tracking of Safer Alternatives to Cigarettes But Says Nothing About FDA's Inaction on Real Cigarettes

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The FDA is planning to  fast-track applications for the marketing of nicotine pouches, according to Reuters. Nicotine pouches are much safe...
Tuesday, September 02, 2025

Why is Philip Morris International, But Not Anti-Tobacco Groups, Urging Smokers to Quit by Switching to Much Safer Products

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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...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Response from Investigators of Clinical Trial of Very Low Nicotine Cigarettes

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For the purposes of fairness and completeness, I am sharing the response from study authors to my criticism of the recently published clini...
Sunday, July 20, 2025

More Reasons Why the Clinical Trial of Low Nicotine Cigarettes for Pregnant Smokers Was Unethical

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Last week, I explained that a recent clinical trial of very low nicotine cigarettes for pregnant smokers was unethical because neither the...
Friday, July 11, 2025

Has Ethics in Medical Research Completely Disappeared? Study Assigns Half of Pregnant Women Subjects to Continue Smoking

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A clinical trial published last week in the journal Preventive Medicine  randomized pregnant women who smoked to either continue smoking th...
Wednesday, July 09, 2025

Anti-Vaping Physician Claims that a Single Vape Can Cause Severe and Irreversible Lung Disease

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