Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Financial Analyst: 1.5 Billion Fewer Cigarettes Smoked this Year Because of Electronic Cigarettes

›
Imagine an intervention that would reduce the consumption of cigarettes in the U.S. by 1.5 billion within one year. Anti-smoking groups woul...
Monday, April 29, 2013

Why is the FDA Lying About Chantix Health Risks?

›
The FDA recently announced on its tobacco web site a new online resource dedicated to smoking cessation. The FDA describes this site as con...
Thursday, April 25, 2013

Turkish Health Ministry Would Rather People Smoke Real Tobacco Cigarettes than Non-Tobacco Electronic Ones?

›
According to an article in the World Bulletin , the Turkish health ministry is planning to ban non-tobacco electronic cigarettes while allo...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

New England Journal of Medicine Article Questions Ethics of Refusing to Hire Smokers

›
A perspective article published this month in the New England Journal of Medicine argues that it is unethical for companies to refuse to h...
Monday, April 22, 2013

›
Colonel Benjamin Church Hypocrisy Hall of Shame Award Awarded to: Mayor Michael Bloomberg       GOLD RANK Awarded for: Proclaiming...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

The Mainstream Tobacco Control Movement and Smoking Among African Americans: Some Diversity But Little Inclusivity or Participation

›
No More than Token Support for Policy Change and Withholding of Evidence-Based Treatment 1. No More than Token Support for Policy Change...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

While FDA Worked to Get Electronic Cigarettes off the Market and Obsessed about Substantial Equivalence Applications, It Ignored Information that Could Have Prevented Deadly Meningitis Outbreak

›
Evidence reported today by the Boston Globe reveals that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) apparently ignored information, provided by...
Monday, April 15, 2013

FDA Boasts About "Accomplishments," But So Far Has Not Accomplished a Single Thing to Protect the Public's Health

›
In a promotional flyer on its web site, the FDA boasts about its timeline of accomplishments to protect the public's health under the F...
Friday, April 12, 2013

New Study Shows that Quitline Cessation Counseling is of No Value for Young Adult Smokers

›
An article published in the May issue of Nicotine & Tobacco Research reports the results of a clinical trial of a quitline-based smoki...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

Electronic Cigarettes Will Normalize Smoking? This Couldn't Be Further from the Truth, According to Tobacco Market Analysts

›
A large number of anti-smoking groups and advocates are opposed to electronic cigarettes because they are afraid these products will serve t...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Duke Center for Smoking Cessation Hiding Its Funding from Philip Morris, Violating Basic Public Health Ethics

›
One of the great cover-ups in history in tobacco control is occurring before our very eyes. Ironically, this time it is not a tobacco compan...
Tuesday, April 09, 2013

Obama Cigarette Tax Proposal Would Make Menthol Ban Much Less Likely

›
If Congress enacts the President's proposal for an increased tax on cigarettes to fund pre-school education, it would make it much less ...
Monday, April 08, 2013

President Obama Proposes Tying Pre-Kindergarten Education to Continued High Sales of Tobacco Products

›
Faced with a budget crisis and difficulty finding a way to fund pre-kindergarten education, President Obama has proposed to put the burden ...
Friday, April 05, 2013

American Legacy Foundation Sounds Alarm About Electronic Cigarette Use Among Young People, Calling for a Ban on Flavored E-Cigarettes, But Fails to Document a Single Youth Using These Products

›
In a press release issued this week, the American Legacy Foundation sounded the alarm about electronic cigarette use among young people, ar...
Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Metals in Electronic Cigarette Vapor are Below USP Standards for Metals in Inhalation Medications

›
As I reported on Monday, a study published last week in the online journal PLoS ONE sounded the alarm about potential dangers of electro...
Tuesday, April 02, 2013

New Study Documents Effectiveness of Electronic Cigarettes for Smoking Cessation Among 1,000 Ex-Smokers

›
Anti-smoking groups and advocates continue to argue that there is no evidence that electronic cigarettes can be helpful in smoking cessatio...
Monday, April 01, 2013

New Study Sounds Alarm about Metals Detected in Electronic Cigarettes, But Fails to Inform Readers that Nicotine Inhalers Have Similar Levels of the Same Metals

›
A study published in the online journal PLoS ONE sounds the alarm about potential dangers of electronic cigarettes. The article reports th...
Thursday, March 28, 2013

Huff Post Live Segment Focuses on Electronic Cigarettes

›
Yesterday, a Huff Post Live segment focused on electronic cigarettes, especially the issue of whether their use should be banned in public...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

According to the American Legacy Foundation, There's No Evidence that Smoking is More Harmful than Using Non-Tobacco Electronic Cigarettes

›
In 2013, even the tobacco companies have acknowledged for more than a decade that cigarette use is very hazardous to health and refrain from...