Thursday, May 08, 2008

Financial Conflict of Interest Not Disclosed in Article on Smoking Cessation; Another Example of Failed Disclosure in Tobacco Control Research

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In an article in this month's issue of the American Journal of Public Health , Dr. Michael Fiore of the Center for Tobacco Research and...
Wednesday, May 07, 2008

30 Minute Tobacco Smoke Study Authors Continue to Claim that Research Proves Brief Exposure Causes Heart Attacks; Media Reporting the Same

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Although their study relates to mechanisms for the effects of chronic exposure to secondhand smoke, researchers who published last week'...
Thursday, May 01, 2008

New Study Documents Sustained Vascular Injury from Brief Secondhand Smoke Exposure; Author Claims that These Effects Increase Acute Heart Attack Risk

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A new study published in the current issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology reports that a 30-minute exposure to secon...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Right From the Anti-Smoking Playbook: When You Don't Like Something Someone Says, Accuse Them of Being a Big Tobacco Shill

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In July 2005, I wrote the 2nd of my " Challenging Dogma " posts, in which I expose and question certain aspects of the dogma with ...
Monday, April 28, 2008

My Third FORCES International Roundtable Interview Focuses on Misleading and Inaccurate Scientific Claims by Anti-Smoking Groups

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My third roundtable interview with Gian Turci of FORCES International addresses the widespread misrepresentation of the science of secondha...
Friday, April 25, 2008

Ontario Health Ministry Tells Public that Secondhand Smoke Causes Cardiac Arrest Among Children

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In a letter sent in response to a citizen's inquiry about the rationale behind Ontario's proposed ban on smoking in motor vehicles w...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Large Longitudinal Study Finds Association Between Swedish Snus and Oral/Pharyngeal Cancer

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A new study published in the current issue of the International Journal of Cancer suggests that in contrast to the previous thinking, the ...
Monday, April 21, 2008

ASH Suggests that Smokers Be Held Criminally Liable for Homicide in Secondhand Smoke-Related Deaths

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Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) has suggested that individuals who smoke in the presence of others should possibly be charged with crimin...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Rest of the Story Author Again Publicly Accused by Anti-Smoking Advocate of Being Big Tobacco Stooge

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Once again, I have been publicly accused by a fellow anti-smoking advocate colleague of being a paid lackey for Big Tobacco. On a Facebook s...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Action on Smoking and Health Suggests that Former Smokers Not Be Eligible for Heart Transplants

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Responding to an article which reported that one in four heart transplant patients resume smoking after their operations, Action on Smoking...
Monday, April 14, 2008

Berkeley Anti-Smoking Ordinance May Increase Kids' Exposure to Secondhand Smoke, Admit Public Health Officials

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Last month, Berkeley approved an ordinance that prohibits smoking on all sidewalks in commercial areas of the city, resulting in a nearly co...
Friday, April 11, 2008

Unfair and Discriminatory Treatment of Smokers and Groupthink in Tobacco Control: My Second Interview on FORCES International Roundtable

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My second interview with Gian Turci of FORCES International was posted online today. It focuses on two issues. First, we discuss the increa...
Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Weill Cornell Medical College Again Defends Researcher's Failure to Disclose Tobacco Funding and Financial Conflict of Interest

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Even after being publicly scolded by the New England Journal of Medicine for her failure to disclose the tobacco industry funding of her ...
Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Support of FDA Tobacco Legislation is Devoid of Substance; Television Debate Between Jacob Sullum of Reason and Dick Woodruff of ACS is Very Revealing

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In a news segment on CNBC yesterday, the station featured a debate on the FDA tobacco legislation between Jacob Sullum, senior editor at R...
Monday, April 07, 2008

St. Louis University Tobacco Prevention Center Wins National Championship in Most Ridiculous Secondhand Smoke Claim Tournament

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The St. Louis University Tobacco Prevention Center had the audacity to claim that Plutonium 210 - which does not exist anywhere in the know...
Sunday, April 06, 2008

Finalists of Most Ridiculous Secondhand Smoke Health Claim Tournament

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Memphis and Kansas are not the only tournament finalists from yesterday's Final Four action. Today, we also learn the winners of Final F...
Friday, April 04, 2008

Results of Round 1 and Round 2 of the Most Ridiculous Secondhand Smoke Health Claim Tournament

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Here are the winners of the first and second rounds of the Most Ridiculous Secondhand Smoke Health Claim tournament: EAST REGION CONTEST 1 ...
Thursday, April 03, 2008

Tobacco Control Gone Crazy: Study Group Calls For Regulating Smoke Constituents Without Knowing Whether It Will Help, Hurt, or Not Affect Health

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In an article published in the current issue of Tobacco Control , The World Health Organization's Study Group on Tobacco Product Regula...