Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Idaho Public Television and State Health Officials Lie to the Public by Telling them Smoking is Not More Harmful than Vaping

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In a public education campaign entitled "Do You Know Vape?" Idaho Public Television in collaboration with the state health distric...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

ISFAR Criticizes New Alcohol Guidance Issued by Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction But Fails to Reveal Its Conflicts of Interest with Big Alcohol

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Earlier this year, the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction released a new guidance on alcohol use. The guidance was notable for ...
Wednesday, May 11, 2022

New Study Finds that Switching from Smoking to Vaping Reduces Heart Disease Risk by 34%

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A new study published just days ago in the journal Circulation reported that adults who exclusively use electronic cigarettes experience a...
Sunday, January 26, 2020

CDC is Concealing and Suppressing Information on Youth Marijuana Vaping to Over-hype Harms of E-Cigarettes

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is concealing and suppressing information on the number one cause of severe, vaping-rel...
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Wednesday, January 08, 2020

Tobacco Researcher Claims that Smoking May Be Safer than E-Cigarettes

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Imagine if a tobacco company came out today and publicly claimed that smoking might very well be safer than using an e-cigarette. It would b...
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Thursday, January 02, 2020

Vape Shops Saved for Now: Dodged One Bullet, But Now Must Dodge Another One

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I am expecting the FDA to announce this afternoon that it plans to enforce a ban on the sale of all flavored e-cigarette pods and cartridges...
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Tuesday, December 24, 2019

American Academy of Family Physicians Bemoans Fact that Many People Correctly Link Respiratory Disease Outbreak to THC Vapes

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The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has released the results of a survey it commissioned to examine public attitudes regarding...
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Sunday, December 22, 2019

Newest CDC Data Confirm that Respiratory Disease Outbreak was Caused by Vitamin E Acetate Oil in THC Vaping Cartridges

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The CDC has released new data which almost definitively confirm that the respiratory disease outbreak was caused by vitamin E acetate oil in...
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Thursday, December 19, 2019

Massachusetts Department of Public Health Issues Emergency Order Banning the Sale of All Pets for Four Months

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In response to an outbreak of multi-drug resistant Campylobacter infections associated with the purchase of puppies from pet stores, the Ma...
Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Flavored E-Cigarette Bans are a Sure Way to Increase Youth Cigarette Consumption and Black Market THC Vaping

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Sometimes the most important evidence in a public health debate come from the most important informants: the people who are actually affecte...

Vapers Beware: New Study Does NOT Show that E-Cigarettes Cause Chronic Lung Disease

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A new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine purports to show that the use of e-cigarettes causes long-term lung d...
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Monday, December 16, 2019

Massachusetts DPH Admits that Rescinding the E-Cigarette Sales Ban "Will Almost Certainly Lead to More Cases of Severe Illness, and Potentially Deaths"

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In court filings--both in state and federal court--the Massachusetts Department of Public Health strongly argued that allowing e-cigarettes ...
Friday, December 13, 2019

Massachusetts DPH Destroys Its Own Justification for the Emergency E-Cigarette Ban

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The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH), via a vote by the Public Health Council, has rescinded its emergency ban on the sale of...
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Thursday, December 12, 2019

The Height of Irresponsibility: Massachusetts Department of Public Health Tells Public the Cause of Respiratory Disease Outbreak is Unknown

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Yesterday, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) proclaimed to residents of the Commonwealth that it has no idea what is causi...
Monday, December 09, 2019

Outbreak of Salmonella Poisoning from Contaminated Vegetables in Massachusetts But DPH Refuses to Release Data on Which Products are Involved and Where They Were Purchased

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Despite an outbreak of vegetable-associated Salmonella poisoning linked to products sold at Massachusetts restaurants that has affected 90 M...
Thursday, December 05, 2019

American Lung Association's Lies About E-Cigarettes are Dangerous and Irresponsible

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Earlier this week, I revealed that, ironically, in a campaign attacking e-cigarette companies for lying to the public, the American Heart As...