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Friday, August 31, 2012

More Conflicts of Interest Being Hid by Electronic Cigarette Opponents: Funding of their Organization by Big Pharma Not Disclosed

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Two days ago, I pointed out a strong bias against electronic cigarettes in the response of Drs. Nathan Cobb and David Abrams to a commenta...
Thursday, August 30, 2012

Electronic Cigarette Opponents Fail to Disclose Relevant Conflicts of Interest to the Public

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Yesterday, I pointed out a strong bias against electronic cigarettes in the response of Drs. Nathan Cobb and David Abrams to a commentary ...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Commentary and Responses in Addiction Consider the Potential Role of Electronic Cigarettes in Smoking Cessation and Harm Reduction

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This month's issue of the journal Addiction features a detailed consideration of the potential role of electronic cigarettes in smoking...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Author of Article Attacking E-Cigarettes Appears to Have Failed to Disclose Significant Financial Conflict of Interest

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An article published in the March issue of the journal Nursing Clinics of North America reviews electronic cigarettes as potential harm re...
Monday, August 27, 2012

U.S. Court of Appeals Upholds District Court's Invalidation of FDA's Proposed Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels

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On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld the District Court's decision that overturned the FDA's pr...
Friday, August 24, 2012

Electronic Cigarette Opponents Now Making Up, Not Just Lying About Evidence

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In a USA Today article on electronic cigarettes, Dr. David Abrams - executive director of the Shroeder Institute and a staunch opponent of...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

Tobacco-Free UK Declares that Electronic Cigarettes Cause Cancer

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A poster on the University of Kentucky campus sponsored by Tobacco-Free UK warns the campus community that electronic cigarettes cause canc...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

In Calling for Ban on Flavored Cigars, Senator Lautenberg Reaches a New Record Level of Hypocrisy

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Last week, Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) reiterated his call for a ban on flavored cigars . These products were not included in the Congre...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

New Study on Effectiveness of Smoking Cessation Medications is Really a Retrospective, Rather than Prospective Cohort Study; Bias in Defining Exposure Groups Threatens Validity of Results

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Yesterday, I reported on a new study published online ahead of print in the journal Addiction which presented survey data purporting to ...
Monday, August 20, 2012

New Study Reports Effectiveness of Smoking Cessation Medication But is Biased Towards Finding an Effect; Financial Conflict of Interest Present

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A new study published online ahead of print in the journal Addiction reports survey data purporting to show that quit attempts using medic...
Friday, August 17, 2012

UK National Health Service Data Show that NRT is No More Effective than Unassisted Quitting on a Population Level

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A report released yesterday by the Health and Social Care Information Centre of the UK National Health Service assesses the smoking cessati...
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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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