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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Sincerity of New York City Park Smoking Ban Comes Into Question after Just One Ticket Issued in First Month

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After one full month of enforcement, New York City's park smoking ban has resulted in the grand total of one ticket, according to an art...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Another Anti-Tobacco Advocate Accuses Electronic Cigarette Companies of Promoting Tobacco Use and Being Funded by Big Tobacco

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Why Can't This Issue Be Debated Based on the Facts? A column by an anti-tobacco advocate on a San Francisco Chronicle blog argues that...
Monday, June 27, 2011

FDA Warns Public of Heart Attack Risks Associated with Chantix; No Anti-Smoking Groups Inform Their Constituents

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On June 16, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned the public that Chantix appears to be associated with a small, but significant in...
Sunday, June 19, 2011

Rest of the Story on Brief Summer Vacation This Week; Back Next Week

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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

San Clemente Considering Park Smoking Ban

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Outdoor smoking bans in wide-open places like parks are spreading rapidly. Today, I report that San Clemente (California) is considering an ...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

NRT and Chantix Proving to Be Less and Less Effective as Studies Approach Real-Life Conditions

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Most of the research leading anti-smoking advocates to view nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and medications like Chantix as effective for...
Monday, June 13, 2011

Anti-Smoking Advocates Decry Major Smoking Cessation Effort

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In an article published online ahead of print in the journal Tobacco Control , a group of tobacco control researchers are attacking electro...
Thursday, June 09, 2011

Investigators Running Lung Cancer Detection Trial Cannot Locate Informed Consent Forms; Unclear if Informed Consent Was Obtained from Patients

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According to an article in the New York Times , investigators running a trial to determine whether CT screening for lung cancer is effectiv...
Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Globalink: A Forum for Global Groupthink in Tobacco Control

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Today, I am going to put forward the argument that Globalink (the international tobacco control list-serve) would be better called GlobalGro...
Monday, June 06, 2011

Australia Seizes Electronic Cigarettes, While Allowing Real Ones to Pass Through to Consumers

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In a display of the reverse logic that seems to pervade the tobacco control movement these days, Australia has seized and destroyed 70 pack...

Linn County Health Officials Want to Ban Dissolvable Tobacco Products (Which Kids Don't Use) and Keep Cigarettes (Which Many Kids Do Use) Available

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Apparently wanting to make sure that kids in Linn County, Iowa will continue to have access to their tobacco product of choice - cigarettes ...
Friday, June 03, 2011

Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada Accuses Everyone Who Opposes Outdoor Smoking Bans of Being Funded by Big Tobacco

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In its advocacy guide to promoting outdoor smoking bans, Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada instructs local anti-smoking advocates that all...
Thursday, June 02, 2011

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Statement on Proposed FDA Tobacco Act Amendments is Full of Crap

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In response to an amendment being offered by Representative Denny Rehberg (R-MT) that would gut the FDA Tobacco Act by precluding the agency...
Wednesday, June 01, 2011

Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada Encourages Local Anti-Smoking Advocates to Deceive the Public in Order to Get Outdoor Smoking Bans Enacted

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Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada is encouraging local anti-smoking advocates throughout Canada to deceive the public in order to promote w...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

150 Additional Suicides Associated with Chantix Use; Breakdown in Surveillance Leads to Underestimate of Drug’s Potentially Severe Adverse Effects

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According to an article at MSNBC.com , a “breakdown” in surveillance of the adverse effects of Chantix has led to an underestimate of the p...
Friday, May 27, 2011

New England Journal of Medicine Commentary Suggests that NYC Outdoor Smoking Ban Goes Too Far

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Echoing the sentiments I presented in my op-ed in the New York Times , a commentary appearing this week online ahead of print in the New E...
Thursday, May 26, 2011

Why Fallacious Assertions About Low TSNA Cigarettes are Scientifically Worse than Fraudulent Statements About Low-Tar Cigarettes by Big Tobacco

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I reported yesterday that anti-smoking researchers have attacked the U.S. tobacco companies for failing to produce lower TSNA (tobacco-spec...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Anti-Smoking Researchers Tell Public that Marlboro Virginia Blend Cigarettes are Safer than Regular Marlboros, Camels, Kools, Winstons, and Dorals

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Fraudulent Statements for Which Tobacco Companies Were Found Guilty Under RICO Statute are Now Being Made by Tobacco Control Researchers In ...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Anti-Smoking Groups are Still Wildly Misinformed About Electronic Cigarettes

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Although they have now been on the market for more than three years, many anti-smoking groups continue to be misinformed about these non-tob...
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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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