Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Obsession with Youth Vaping Has Made Us Lose Sight of Far More Serious Threats to the Health of Adolescents and Young Adults

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While public health agencies and anti-tobacco groups have made youth vaping nearly the sole focus of their adolescent health agendas over th...
Monday, November 25, 2024

New Article in American Journal of Medicine Claims that Youths Who Use E-Cigarettes are 5 Times More Likely to Become Cigarette Smokers

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I've only been back at this for one day and the very first new article that I came across makes the preposterous claim that use of e-cig...
Sunday, November 24, 2024

American Heart Association and American Cancer Society are Still Spreading Misinformation about Vaping

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After the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, I took an almost complete break from blogging about tobacco policy to concentrate on some other pu...
Tuesday, August 20, 2024

New Data Show that E-Cigarettes are Saving Lives and Debunk Claims by Opponents that Vaping is a Gateway to Smoking

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The claim by opponents of e-cigarettes that vaping is a gateway to smoking and will increase the long-term hazards of tobacco product use ha...
Sunday, August 04, 2024

Why is Congress Interfering With Science to Protect the Alcohol Industry?

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Background In 2004, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services created an interagency committee to direct federal efforts to reduce u...
Friday, January 05, 2024

National Academies Replaces Big Alcohol-Conflicted Researcher on Review Panel with Another Big Alcohol-Conflicted Researcher

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Just over one month ago, I reported that the National Academies had appointed to their newly formed expert committee to review the health e...
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Why is the National Academies Appointing Alcohol-Industry Funded Researchers to Serve on Panel to Review the Health Effects of Alcohol?

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I have always thought of the National Academies (full name is the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine [NASEM]) as bein...
Thursday, August 31, 2023

American Lung Association Wants to Keep Smokers Misinformed About the Relative Risks of Different Tobacco Products

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In comments submitted to the FDA in response to the Center for Tobacco Products' (CTP) draft strategic plan, the American Lung Associat...
Monday, July 31, 2023

University of Maryland Doctor Tells Public He's Not Sure Smoking is Any More Hazardous than Vaping

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In an article published today by ABC News , a physician from the University of Maryland is quoted as telling the public that he isn't s...
Friday, July 28, 2023

Great Article on the CDC's Misinformation Campaign About Electronic Cigarettes

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A very well-researched and well-documented article on the CDC's misinformation campaign about electronic cigarettes by my friend and co...

Medical Journal Retracts Vaping Study for Political, Rather than Scientific Reasons

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The journal BMC Public Health has announced that it will be retracting a paper it published last October which concluded that the use of e...
Monday, July 17, 2023

American Heart Association Still Refuses to Tell the Truth About EVALI and Makes No Specific Recommendation that Youth Avoid Vaping THC Products

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In an American Heart Association (AHA) "scientific statement" published this week in the journal Circulation , the AHA continues ...
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 ...