Monday, November 26, 2012

Despite Best Efforts of Anti-Smoking Groups, Electronic Cigarettes are Here to Stay

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The Food and Drug Administration along with at least seven national anti-smoking groups made a valiant effort to remove electronic cigarette...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

UAB Health System Admits It is Setting a Bad Example and Encouraging Obesity By Continuing to Hire Overweight People

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According to an article in the Birmingham News , the University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB) Health System is defending its new tobacco-free...
Tuesday, November 20, 2012

DHHS Hides from Public the Fact that Chantix Has Been Associated with Hundreds of Suicides; Recommends Drug that Has Caused Many Deaths over Product that Has No Known Serious Adverse Effects

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The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), on its new web site devoted to smoking, is hiding from the public the fact that Chantix ...
Monday, November 19, 2012

Department of Health and Human Services Warns Smokers Wishing to Try Quitting Using Electronic Cigarettes to Stick With Regular Cigarettes Because They Don't Know How Much Nicotine They'll Get; Department Spreading False Information About the Scientific Evidence

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On a new web site devoted to tobacco and smoking cessation, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) warns smokers wishing to try...
Thursday, November 15, 2012

New Study on Graphic Warning Labels Provides Further Evidence that They are Unconstitutional

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A new study on the effectiveness of cigarette graphic warning labels published in the current issue of the American Journal of Preventive M...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

On What Passes for Science in Tobacco Control: New Study Purports to Show Effect of College Tobacco Ban on Smoking Rates, But Fails to Consider Age Differences Between Pre- and Post-Ban Samples

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A study published in the journal Preventive Medicine in 2011 purported to demonstrate that a tobacco-free campus policy led to a decrease ...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Department of Health and Human Services is Promoting Complete Outdoor Tobacco Use Bans on College Campuses, Despite Lack of Scientific Evidence to Support Need for These Policies

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Earlier this fall, the Department of Health and Human Services announced a new initiative to promote outdoor tobacco use bans on every coll...
Monday, November 12, 2012

Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights Accuses the Rest of the Story Author of Being Unprofessional for Sharing his Opinion About Smoking Ban/Heart Attack Studies; Attempt to Quell Dissenting Opinion is Unsuccessful

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In an apparent attempt to quell dissent on the issue of whether smoking bans lead to immediate, dramatic reductions in heart attacks, Americ...
Friday, November 09, 2012

Anti-Smoking Group Cherry-Picking Studies to Mislead Pubic About the Science: Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights is Hiding Information from the Public

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As a former Board member of Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights (ANR), I can attest to the fact that as an organization, we used to attack ...
Thursday, November 08, 2012

Researcher Says We Should Accept Smoking Ban/Heart Attack Link as Fact, Even Though His Own Study Fails to Demonstrate Such an Effect

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Last week, I discussed a new study published online ahead of print in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine which concluded that smo...
Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Obsession with Nicotine as Sole Component of Smoking Addiction is Evident in Current Journal Issue; Ties with Big Pharma are Blinding Our Eyes

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This month's issue of the journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research is devoted to articles on the study of nicotine receptors in mice and ...
Monday, November 05, 2012

Study Concludes that Thirdhand Smoke Could Cause Lung Damage in Hotel Housekeepers

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A study published last year in the American Journal of Physiology warns that exposure to thirdhand smoke could cause lung damage in hotel ...
Friday, November 02, 2012

Meta-Analysis of Smoking Ban and Heart Attack Studies Seems to Have Cherry-Picked Its Data, Excluding the Second Largest Study Because It Failed to Find an Effect

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As I reported here yesterday, in the largest meta-analysis to date of studies examining the effect of smoking bans on heart attack admissio...
Thursday, November 01, 2012

Large Meta-Analysis Purports to Find Huge Effect of Smokefree Laws on Heart Attacks, But Instead Fails to Demonstrate an Effect

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In the largest meta-analysis to date of studies examining the effect of smoking bans on heart attack admissions, a paper published this wee...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

CDC Data Show that Rate of Heart Attacks Deaths in Olmsted County, Minnesota Did Not Drop Substantially After Smoking Bans

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Yesterday, I discussed a new study published online ahead of print in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine which concluded that smo...