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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...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

New National Survey Shows that Youth Nicotine Product Use Has Dropped to an All-Time Low

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Opponents of tobacco harm reduction (i.e., vaping) have argued for years that the dramatic declines in youth smoking we have observed in rec...
Sunday, June 01, 2025

American Medical Association Article Claims that Quitting Smoking by Switching to Vapes is Not Quitting

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According to an article published two days ago by the American Medical Association, a person who quits smoking completely but still uses no...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

New Study Finds that Youth Vaping Served as a Substitute for Smoking But Concludes the Opposite

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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...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

New Zealand Researcher Claims that Using E-Cigarettes Coats the Lungs With Oil

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An electronic cigarette researcher from Auckland University's Bio Engineering Institute is telling the public that when people use e-cig...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Is the American Cancer Society Really Interested in Preventing Cancer or Just Punishing Smokers Who Don't Use Cessation Products Made by ACS Donors?

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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...
Tuesday, April 08, 2025

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Falsely Claims that Vaping is "Tobacco Use"

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In its Take Down Tobacco program, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is lamenting the fact that through its sale of flavored vapes, the tob...
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...
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Michael Siegel
Dr. Siegel is a visiting professor and researcher in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine. The views expressed here are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Tufts University. Dr. Siegel has 32 years of experience in the field of tobacco control. He previously spent two years working at the Office on Smoking and Health at CDC, where he conducted research on secondhand smoke and cigarette advertising. He has published nearly 70 papers related to tobacco. He testified in the landmark Engle lawsuit against the tobacco companies, which resulted in an unprecedented $145 billion verdict against the industry. He teaches health communication theory and social mareketing in the Masters of Public Health program.
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