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Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Anti-Smoking Advocates Using Misleading Claims to Promote Ban on Electronic Cigarettes

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In a press release issued last week, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) claims that the importation of electronic cigarettes has been banne...
Monday, April 05, 2010

Clinical Trial of Liquid Nicotine Cigarettes Yields Greater than 50% Quit Rate at 3 Months; Suggests Great Promise for Liquid & Electronic Cigarettes

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A single-arm phase 2a clinical trial of liquid nicotine cigarettes demonstrated a 3-month smoking cessation rate of 53%, suggesting that li...
Thursday, April 01, 2010

Published Article Puts Forward Idea of Banning Smoking in Homes with Children

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For the first time (to the best of my knowledge), a published article in a peer-reviewed journal has put forward the idea of banning smokin...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Chair of FDA Tobacco Advisory Committee Took Tobacco Industry Money to Help Craft Research Agenda for Fraudulent Industry Research Enterprise

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Two Prominent Anti-Smoking Researchers Call on Chair to Resign Two prominent anti-smoking researchers – Dr. Michael Siegel of the Boston Uni...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010

St. Luke's Hospital in Allentown: Smokers Not Wanted in Health Care Field, Need Not Apply

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St. Luke's Hospital and Health Network announced Monday that it will no longer consider job applications from smokers, or from anyone w...
Monday, March 29, 2010

UK Department of Health's New Tobacco Control Strategy Criticized for Lack of Evidence Base on Smoking Cessation Recommendations

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On his new blog over at BMJ Group Blogs , Patrick Basham criticizes the UK Department of Health's new tobacco control strategy for lac...
Friday, March 26, 2010

New Report from Royal College of Physicians Calls on Policies to Protect Children From Even Having to See Smokers

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A new report by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) calls for policies to protect children from ever having to see smokers. The report ...
Thursday, March 25, 2010

Article Questions Conclusions About Smoking Bans and Heart Attacks, Highlights Weaknesses in IOM Committee's Conclusions

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An article by Dr. Michael Marlow, a Professor at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, questions the conclusions of m...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Distinction Between War Against Cigarette Smoke and War Against Cigarette Smokers Continues to Blur; Researcher Warns Public Not to Be Around Smokers

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An anti-smoking researcher has warned the public not to be around cigarette smokers, according to a press release issued by the University ...
Sunday, March 21, 2010

Maryland Bill Would Severely Harm the Public's Health by Forcing Many Ex-Smokers to Return to Cigarette Smoking

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Would Also Criminalize Individuals Who Give Electronic Cigarettes to Friends or Relatives to Help Them Quit Smoking Bill Acknowledges that D...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

Another Published Study Finds No Evidence that Smoking Ban Resulted in Short-Term Decline in Heart Attacks

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Negative Finding Doesn't Stop Researchers from Telling the Media that They Found an Effect Another published study - this one in the Au...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Illinois Legislature to Consider Bill to Ban Electronic Cigarettes

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An Illinois state Senator has introduced legislation that would ban the sale of electronic cigarettes in Illinois. Senator Mattie Hunter (D-...
Monday, March 15, 2010

San Francisco Tobacco Sales Law Shows Irrationality of Modern Tobacco Control Movement's Approach

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Is there a rational basis for letting Safeway sell cigarettes but telling Walgreens that it can't? That's the question that a Califo...
Thursday, March 11, 2010

Duke University "Branch" of Philip Morris Puts Out Study that Perpetuates Focus on Nicotine Biology and Obscures Need for Effective Cessation Approach

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An academic research unit that is apparently serving as the "Duke University branch" of Philip Morris has just put out a study wh...
Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Utah Legislature Passes Bill that Makes it Criminal Homicide if a Smoker Has a Miscarriage

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The Utah legislature has passed a bill that would almost certainly make it criminal homicide if a smoker has a miscarriage and would allow ...

Oklahoma Legislation Would Make it a Crime to Smoke Outdoors on a Campus that Has Been Declared Smoke-Free

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State legislation being considered in Oklahoma would make it a crime - a misdemeanor - for a person to smoke, even outdoors in a remote loc...
Monday, March 08, 2010

Utah Legislature Wants People to Smoke to Support Critical Public Programs; Voted to Make it Criminal Homicide for a Woman to Take Morning After Pill

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It is difficult for me to see any way in which a public health group could praise a state legislature that voted to make it criminal homicid...
Thursday, March 04, 2010

New Study Shows That Even Extended Nicotine Replacement Therapy is Extremely Ineffective; Unaided Quitting Rates are Far Better

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A study published in a recent issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine finds that even with continuous use of the nicotine patch for six m...
Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Four Members of FDA Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee Have Received Pharmaceutical Money; Influence of Industry on FDA Grows

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Pfizer and Nabi Pharmaceuticals Also Given a Seat at the Table Yesterday, I reported that the FDA has appointed GlaxoSmithKline to sit on i...

Memorial Health Care System in Tennessee Refuses to Hire Smokers Who are Trying to Quit Using Nicotine Replacement Therapy

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Not only would President Barack Obama not be eligible to apply for a job with the Memorial Health Care System in Chattanooga, Tennessee, but...
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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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