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It seems as though we have been waiting for years for the FDA to finally release its proposed regulations for electronic cigarettes. It is n...

In response to the public warning issued recently by a prominent tobacco control researcher about the health hazards associated with touchin...

We've all heard of vaping. And most of us have heard of secondhand vaping (being exposed to air in a room where others are vaping). Now,...

A laboratory study presented last week at the annual meeting of the Society of Toxicology provides important new evidence that electronic c...

Researchers from the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at UCSF have published a research letter in JAMA Internal Medicine ...

Adding to the long list of tobacco control practitioners who have publicly declared that smoking may be no more harmful than vaping - which ...

Not that our science allows us to be precise to the percentage point, but the American Legacy Foundation has publicly claimed that exactly 4...

Yesterday, The Exchange segment on New Hampshire Public Radio featured a detailed discussion of electronic cigarettes and smoking. If you ...

Just days after Stan Glantz told the public that his cross-sectional study, which was unable to determine whether youths who use e-cigarette...

In a move that could not be more favorable to the cigarette industry in Daly City, California, the city's mayor wants to ban vape shops ...

On his wonderful science and advocacy blog , tobacco control practitioner and former director of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH-UK) Clive...

According to an article in the UC Riverside campus newspaper, a UC Riverside researcher has discovered that electronic cigarettes are more ...

Hopefully, we can all agree that funding early childhood education should be a national priority. The question is: where do we get those fun...

According to Stan Glantz and a number of anti-smoking groups and agencies, including the CDC, electronic cigarettes have been shown to be a ...

The headline of the UCSF press release announcing the results of Stan Glantz's recent study of e-cigarettes reads: "E-Cigarettes:...

A new study published online today in JAMA Pediatrics purports to provide data showing that electronic cigarettes are "aggravating th...

In a bizarre turn of events, the governor of Rhode Island - who paints himself as anti-tobacco - is asking the legislature to help protect B...

The misinformation in the tobacco control field is so widespread that hardly a day goes by that an anti-smoking advocate somewhere doesn...

In a letter to the editor published in the New York Times last Thursday, the president of the American Thoracic Society  actually discourag...

Earlier this week, I reported that for the first time ever, the FDA has disapproved a substantial equivalence application, thus resulting i...

In the 1970s, the tobacco industry perpetuated the myth that some brands of cigarettes were safer than others. Perhaps because of difference...

In what it is calling an action " to ensure the protection of the nation's public health ," the FDA has announced taking an ...

Sabrina Tavernise put together an outstanding, insightful, and very well-written article about the electronic cigarette debate within the to...

As I revealed earlier this week, Stan Glantz has publicly made false accusations which imply that electronic cigarette companies have been ...

Stan Glantz has accused electronic cigarette companies of orchestrating a campaign of support for these products by several "right-win...

A prominent anti-smoking advocate is urging that judges revoke child custody of smokers, even if they never smoke in the presence of their ...