Monday, November 25, 2013

Analysis of CDC Statement on Relative Harms of Electronic Cigarettes vs. Smoking: Is Deception Intentional, or Merely a Mistake?

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I have previously criticized a CDC statement for implying that electronic cigarettes may be no more harmful than tobacco cigarettes. I quote...

What We Learned Last Week: Anti-Smoking Movement Maintains a Double Standard

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It appears that there is a sort of double standard in a large segment of today's anti-smoking movement. When the tobacco industry lies t...
Thursday, November 21, 2013

Correction: Tobacco Company Didn't State that Smoking is No More Harmful than Vaping; Only Anti-Smoking Groups are Making Such Statements

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The Rest of the Story issues the following correction: Like 60 Minutes , the Rest of the Story relied on a source that provided false in...

Tobacco Company Claims that Cigarette Smoking May Not Be Any More Harmful than Vaping

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Yesterday, a U.S. tobacco company issued a press release claiming that its products may not be any more harmful than electronic cigarettes, ...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

FDA and CDC are Not Telling the Full Truth About the Hazards of Cigarette Smoking

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We tend to think of the FDA and CDC as reliable agencies that we can count on to provide the facts regarding the health risks of cigarette s...
Monday, November 18, 2013

Another Tobacco Control Practitioner Tells Public that Real Cigarettes May Be No More Dangerous than Fake Ones

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Yet another tobacco control practitioner has told the public she is not sure that smoking is any more hazardous than using electronic cigare...
Friday, November 15, 2013

Despite Drastic Increase in Electronic Cigarette Experimentation from 2011-2012, CDC Survey Finds Decline in Cigarette Smoking Among Youth

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Despite what the CDC has called an alarming increase in electronic cigarette experimentation among youth between 2011 and 2012, the prevalen...
Thursday, November 14, 2013

CDC Concludes that Advertising is What Has Caused Kids to Use Electronic Cigarettes

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In an interview with WebMD , a CDC tobacco control expert concludes that the reason youth are using electronic cigarettes is the advertisin...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Why Does the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease Want to Prohibit Advertisements that Encourage Smokers to Quit?

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Although one would think that the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (the Union) would be against lung disease, one ...
Monday, November 11, 2013

Study Reports that Intensive Intervention Reduced Children's Secondhand Smoke by 17% Compared to Minimal Intervention; However, Results Show No Significant Difference in Exposure Between Groups

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A study in the December issue of Pediatrics reports that an intensive intervention to reduce children's secondhand smoke exposure in h...
Wednesday, November 06, 2013

Beverly Hills City Council Votes Down Moratorium on Electronic Cigarette Sales

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Last night, the Beverly Hills City Council failed to adopt a proposed emergency ordinance to place a moratorium on the sale of electronic c...

New Study Shows that Among Committed Electronic Cigarette Users, Dual Use is a Gateway to Smoking Cessation

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One of the main criticisms of electronic cigarettes leveled by its opponents in the tobacco control movement is that there are many dual use...
Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Beverly Hills Ordinance Would Force Many Ex-Smokers to Return to Cigarette Smoking; City Would Put Moratorium on Fake Cigarettes, but Allow the Continued Sale of the Toxic, Real Ones

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Tonight, the Beverly Hills City Council is considering an ordinance that would place a moratorium on the sale of electronic cigarettes becau...

Another Tobacco Control Professional Tells Public that Cigarette Smoking is No More Harmful than Using Non-Tobacco Electronic Cigarettes

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While cigarette smoke contains more than 10,000 chemicals, including more than 60 known human carcinogens, and is known to kill more than 40...
Monday, November 04, 2013

An Inconsequential Slip of the Tongue? CDC Director is Quoted in Many Media Outlets as Stating that Youth Electronic Cigarette Experimentation Leads to Lifelong Addiction

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Several weeks ago, I reported that CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden stated that many youth have become cigarette smokers because they exper...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

On the Same Day, Two More Tobacco Control Practitioners Tell the Public that Smoking May Be as Safe as Using Electronic Cigarettes

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If a tobacco company were to publicly state that we don't know if smoking is any more hazardous than using non-tobacco, non-combusted el...

First Study to Examine E-Cigarette Gateway Hypothesis Can Find Only One Nonsmoker Who Initiated with E-Cigs and Went on to Smoke

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In the first study to examine the hypothesis that electronic cigarettes are a gateway for youth to become addicted to cigarettes, Dr. Ted W...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Pennsylvania Medical Society Wants to Give the Most Toxic Cigarettes a Competitive Advantage over Safer Electronic Cigarettes

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Pennsylvania's physicians apparently want to make sure that tobacco cigarettes maintain a competitive advantage over the much safer elec...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Pre-Clinical Study of Inhaled Propylene Glycol Found No Adverse Respiratory Effects

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In 2007, researchers from Novartis Pharmaceuticals reported the results of a pre-clinical study designed to evaluate the safety of inhaled ...
Monday, October 28, 2013

Mayo Clinic Questions the Sanity of All Electronic Cigarette Users

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A prominent anti-smoking researcher at the Mayo Clinic has questioned the sanity of electronic cigarette users, stating that "one of t...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

Interview Regarding Key Issues on Electronic Cigarettes Posted at PowerSmoke.com

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PowerSmoke.com has posted an interview with me on several important issues regarding electronic cigarettes. By the way, I think the very...

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Argues that Continued High Levels of Smoking Should be Used to Assure Access to Early Childhood Education

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The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and several other anti-smoking groups have put forward the argument that instead of funding early childho...