Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Santa Cruz Bans Smoking on Downtown Streets and All City Parking Lots

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According to an article on the web site of San Francisco's CBS television affiliate, the Santa Cruz City Council has enacted an ordinan...
Monday, November 02, 2009

Published Study Shows No Effect of New Zealand Smoking Ban on Acute Cardiac Events During First Year; Study Not Considered by IOM Committee Report

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A peer-reviewed study published in the journal Tobacco Control reports no effect of New Zealand's smoking ban on admissions for acute ...
Saturday, October 31, 2009

Wisdom (or Lack Thereof) of FDA Tobacco Law Debated at Boston University School of Public Health's Bicknell Lectureship

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A summary of the Bicknell symposium is available on the School's web site. The actual video of the event will be made available soon. A...

Zogby Poll Shows Public Support for Keeping Electronic Cigarettes Available as a Smoking Cessation Device

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According to a Zogby poll , 65% of those who have an opinion about whether electronic cigarettes should remain available to people trying to...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

New Study Finds Nicotine Gum May Pose Carcinogen Hazard to NRT Users; Will Anti-Smoking Groups Call for Removal of Oral NRT Products from Market?

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A new study published online ahead of print in the journal Cancer Research reports that the use of nicotine gum is associated with signifi...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Colleagues Accuse Me of Working for Big Tobacco and E-Cigarette Industry; Anti-Smoking Advocates Seem Unable to Address Opposing Views Substantively

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In response to my suggestion that electronic cigarettes could be helpful to smokers in quitting and my recent op-ed in the New York Daily Ne...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights Now Supporting Bans on Vaping in Public Places

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This weekend, Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights (ANR) apparently adopted a new position in which it is now advocating for bans on electro...

Tobacco Industry Using Aggressive Street and Sidewalk Smoking Bans to Prevent Indoor Smoking Bans, Including Those in Bars and Restaurants

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An enlightening article by Dr. Simon Chapman in the current issue of Tobacco Control presents the surprising news that Japan Tobacco is su...
Monday, October 26, 2009

Op-Ed in NY Daily News Exposes Misleading Scientific Claims of Anti-Smoking Groups; Now Health Groups, Not Just Big Tobacco, are Deceiving the Public

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An op-ed that appears in today's New York Daily News exposes the widespread misleading claims being made by anti-smoking groups about ...

Data from Australia Show No Effect of Smoking Bans on Heart Attack Admissions

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National data from all hospital admissions in Australia show no apparent effect of smoking bans that were enacted in the various Australian...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

IOM Report Criticized for Failing to Consider Relevant Data, Coming to Pre-Determined Conclusion

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Over at Reason Magazine's Hit & Run blog, Jacob Sullum has criticized the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on smoking bans and h...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Conclusion of IOM Report on Smoking Bans and Heart Attacks is Invalid on its Face: An Epidemiologic Analysis of the Report's Major Conclusion

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Last week, an Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee released a report whose major conclusion was that smoking bans have a significant short...
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

IOM Proceedings Introduced Bias into Report: Only One Side of Smoking Ban Studies Was Presented in Committee's Public Meetings

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Today, I reveal that another element of bias in the Institute of Medicine's report on the effect of smoking bans and heart attacks occur...
Sunday, October 18, 2009

Data from Denmark Show No Apparent Effect of Smoking Ban on Heart Attacks

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Data from a government study of the effects of the smoking ban in Denmark show no apparent impact of that smoking ban on heart attack hospi...
Friday, October 16, 2009

Analysis Reveals that Institute of Medicine Report Failed to Include Data that Found No Effect of Smoking Bans on Acute Coronary Events in 3 Countries

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Bias in Report Results from Failure to Consider Data Which is Inconsistent with Report's Conclusions I have analyzed the data which the ...

New York Times Article About Institute of Medicine Report

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The link is here . I am quoted as pointing out that the report concludes that anyone exposed briefly to secondhand smoke could suffer a hear...

New York ABC News Story on Institute of Medicine Report

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Here is a link to the New York ABC News story on the Institute of Medicine report on smoking bans and heart attacks. After clicking on the...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

Institute of Medicine Report's Conclusions on Smoking Ban Effects are Defied By Its Own Assertions; Study Conclusions, Press Release Severely Biased

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A new report from the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Acute Coronary Events, entitled "Secondhan...