Friday, December 08, 2006

Conflating Coronary Blood Flow and Coronary Flow Velocity Reserve: The Basis for Anti-Smoking Groups' Misleading Health Claims

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I thought it might be worthwhile to devote one post to explain the basis for much of the deception of the public that is going on regarding ...
Thursday, December 07, 2006

Minnesota Anti-Smoking Organizations Fail to Respond to Challenge; What May Have Been Simple Mistake Now Appears to Have Become Intentional Deception

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Last Tuesday, I issued a challenge to two Minnesota anti-smoking groups to retract or correct inaccurate public statements that they made o...
Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Anti-Smoking Group Supporting Proposal That Will Increase Kids' Exposure to Secondhand Smoke

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A national anti-smoking group - Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) - yesterday expressed its public support of a proposal that would increas...
Tuesday, December 05, 2006

IN MY VIEW: Anti-Smoking Group's Stance on Smoking by Adoptive Parents is Unacceptable

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I reported here yesterday that a major national anti-smoking group - Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) - is pushing to bar prospective par...

USA Today Editorial Says Anti-Smoking Movement is Going Too Far

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An editorial published yesterday in USA Today argues that the anti-smoking movement is going too far by pushing to ban smoking in wide-ope...
Monday, December 04, 2006

Anti-Smoking Group Pushing to Bar Smokers from Being Adoptive Parents

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According to a press release issued last week by the national anti-smoking group Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), a potential adoptive c...

Anti-Smoking Advocate Claims that Secondhand Smoke Causes Radiation Poisoning

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An Indianapolis anti-smoking advocate has publicly claimed that chronic radiation poisoning from Polonium-210 is common in individuals expos...
Sunday, December 03, 2006

Action on Smoking and Health Admits that Malpractice Lawsuits Against Physicians are a Longshot, But Encourages Tying Up the Courts Anyway

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In response to my letter to the editor arguing that the idea of filing malpractice lawsuits against physicians for failing to adhere to the...
Saturday, December 02, 2006

Massachusetts Man Who Was Fired for Smoking Off-the-Job Files Lawsuit Under Massachusetts Privacy Statute

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According to an Associated Press article, a Massachusetts man who was fired by the Scotts lawn and garden company after having cotinine (a b...
Friday, December 01, 2006

Anti-Smoking Group Claims that Secondhand Smoke Causes Reduced Oxygen Flow in Children Comparable to Cyanotic Heart Disease

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An anti-smoking group - Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada - is claiming that exposure to secondhand smoke can cause children to turn blue....
Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Rest of the Story Author's Rapid Response Letter Published in Response to Malpractice Article

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The rapid response letter to the editor which I submitted to Tobacco Control in response to the article suggesting that malpractice lawsui...

Tobacco Control Research and Education Center Suggests Malpractice Lawsuits as a Way to Get Physicians to Prescribe Pharmaceuticals to Smokers

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In an article in this month's issue of Tobacco Control , two tobacco control researchers from the University of California, San Francis...
Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Challenge Issued to Association of Nonsmokers - Minnesota to Retract Fallacious Claim and Apologize; Similar Challenge Issued to ClearWay Minnesota

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Today I am issuing a challenge to the Association of Nonsmokers - Minnesota to retract its fallacious and absurd public claim that 30 secon...