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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Smokers May Be Prohibited from Being Foster Parents in East London Borough of Redbridge

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The East London Borough of Redbridge is considering a new policy which would prohibit anyone who smokes from becoming a foster parent. The...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Letter to the Editor in USA Today Questions Campus-Wide Smoking Bans as These Draconian Policies Continue to Spread

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In a letter to the editor published in USA Today on October 22, John Nothdurft - a legislative specialist with the Heartland Institute in ...
Monday, October 27, 2008

Anti-Smoking Bias Evident Not Only in Research, But in Policy Analysis As Well

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New Study Claims to Find Support for Ban on Smoking in Homes with Children, But Conclusion was Pre-Determined A new study published onli...
Thursday, October 23, 2008

New Report Warns of Serious Risk Profile of Chantix; Recommendation of Chantix by Anti-Smoking Researchers with Conflicts of Interest is Unacceptable

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A new report from the Institute for Safe Medication Practices revealed that Chantix accounted for more reported serious injuries than any ...
Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Federal Judge Admonishes Anti-Smoking Groups for Asking for Money Without Any Legal Basis

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Last week, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia heard oral arguments in an appeal of the District C...
Monday, October 20, 2008

Canadian Non-Smokers' Rights Association Removes False Accusation Against CAGE, But Fails to Apologize

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On September 18, I reported here that the Canadian Non-Smokers' Rights Association (NRSA) had made a false accusation on its website , ...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008

IN MY VIEW: CDC and Surgeon General Deceptively Tried to Convince the Public that a Brief Exposure to Tobacco Smoke Puts People At Risk of Lung Cancer

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The 2006 Surgeon General's report on secondhand smoke concluded that chronic exposure to tobacco smoke (such as that which occurs with ...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008

CDC Press Release Suggested that Short-Term Secondhand Smoke Exposure Can Trigger Heart Attacks in Healthy Persons

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A 2004 press release issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests that brief secondhand smoke exposure can trigge...
Monday, October 13, 2008

CDC, Tobacco-Free Kids, and Scientific Editor of Surgeon General's Report Discussed How to Handle My Criticism of Misleading Public Statements

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Their Decision: Do Not Engage in Scientific Discussion; Keep It Ad Hominem or Simply Ignore Him The Centers for Disease Control and Preventi...
Thursday, October 09, 2008

Prominent Tobacco Control Researcher Cautions CDC that Helena Study Should Not Be Used to Conclude that Smoking Bans Immediately Reduce Heart Attacks

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Despite a warning from a prominent tobacco control researcher, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used the evidence from the Hel...

Why Philip Morris Should Win the "Good" Supreme Court Case: The FTC, Not the Tobacco Companies, are Now Responsible for the "Lights" Fraud

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In a previous post , I commented on the express preemption argument in the Altria v. Good case that is now before the Supreme Court. The o...
Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Who Wrote this Commentary on the Helena Study, Arguing that Using it to Conclude that Smoking Bans Reduce Heart Attacks is Wishful Thinking?

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Today I offer a puzzle for Rest of the Story readers. Below is a commentary (unpublished) written by a scientist regarding the famous Helen...
Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in "Lights" Cigarette Case

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The United States Supreme Court yesterday heard oral arguments in the case of Altria v. Good , an appeal of a Maine lawsuit which will like...
Monday, October 06, 2008

New Study Concludes that Secondhand Smoke Exposure May Cause Nicotine Dependence Among Young Neversmokers

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A new study published online ahead of print in the journal Addictive Behaviors has concluded that secondhand smoke exposure, especially in...
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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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