Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Spurred On By CDC/Glantz Propaganda, Two U.S. Senators Claim that Electronic Cigarettes are a Gateway to Smoking

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In separate statements yesterday, Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Charles Schumer (D-NY) publicly claimed that electronic cigarettes ...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

FDA Tells Researchers and the Public that It is Not Sure Cigarette Smoking is any Worse than Vaping

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As I revealed yesterday, the FDA - supposedly committed to using the most rigorous science to regulate the continuum of nicotine-delivery p...
Monday, April 28, 2014

Federal Agency that Regulates Cigarettes is Not Sure Smoking is Any More Hazardous than Vaping

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The most damaging revelation in the FDA's proposed deeming regulations is the fact that the agency is not sure that smoking is any more...
Thursday, April 24, 2014

FDA Gives Huge Gift to Combustible Tobacco, and to Cancer

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With the release of its deeming regulations, the FDA is poised to give a huge gift to combustible tobacco and to the diseases and death caus...

FDA's Proposed Electronic Cigarette Deeming Regulations: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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This morning, the FDA finally released its draft deeming regulations for electronic cigarettes. Here is my initial take on these draft regu...

FDA's Electronic Cigarette Deeming Regulations Expected Today

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Per rumor only, I am expecting the FDA electronic cigarette deeming regulations to be released today. It will take me some time to digest an...

Huge Survey of Dedicated Electronic Cigarette Users Confirms that Quitting Smoking or Greatly Reducing the Amount Smoked are the Main Reasons for Vaping

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A huge survey of more than 19,000 dedicated electronic cigarette users - mostly users of rechargeable units or mods - confirms that concern...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

New Article Argues that Hospitals Denying Employment to Smokers is Not Consistent with Principles of Medicine

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In an article published online ahead of print in Academic Medicine , physicians Thomas Huddle, Stefan Kertesz, and Ryan Nash argue that pol...
Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Anti-Smoking Groups and Policy Makers Attack Big Pharma for Targeting Kids with Flavored Nicotine Replacement Products

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A group of Congressmembers today released a report that criticizes pharmaceutical companies for targeting kids with candy-flavored nicotine ...
Monday, April 21, 2014

American Cancer Society Sells Out Its Principles for Money

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In a press release last month congratulating CVS for its decision to stop selling deadly cigarettes, the American Cancer Society (ACS) wrot...
Friday, April 18, 2014

IN MY VIEW: Why Attacking Tobacco Companies for Giving their Cigarette Brands Color Labels Makes No Sense

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Earlier this week, I discussed an article published in the journal Tobacco Control and a blog commentary on the article, in which a set o...
Thursday, April 17, 2014

Anti-Smoking Advocate Claims that Inhaling Small Amounts of Nicotine Can Be Deadly

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In an April 2 press release , anti-smoking advocate John Banzhaf, a law professor at George Washington University and former director of Act...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Anti-Smoking Researchers Attack Tobacco Companies for Complying with the Law

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In a strange and ironic twist, in an article published in the journal Tobacco Control and a blog commentary on the article, a set of anti...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

New York State Senator Wants to Ban Most Electronic Cigarettes, While Keeping the Toxic Real Ones

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New York State Senator Kemp Hannon has introduced legislation that would ban most electronic cigarettes, including both the rechargeable an...
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Monday, April 14, 2014

ANR Apparently Decides to Keep Defamatory Statement on Its Web Site

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Last week, I revealed that Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights (ANR) is making defamatory statements on its web site about electronic ciga...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

New Data from England Suggest that Electronic Cigarettes are Helping to Accelerate Smoking Cessation, Not Hinder It

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In contrast to the claims of many anti-smoking advocates, led by Stan Glantz, new evidence from England suggests that electronic cigarettes...
Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Contrary to Claims of Many Anti-Smoking Advocates, New Study Shows that Electronic Cigarettes Decrease Nicotine Addiction

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Many anti-smoking groups and advocates have been opposing electronic cigarettes on the grounds that these products perpetuate or even increa...
Tuesday, April 08, 2014

Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights Spreading False Information About Health Effects of Electronic Cigarettes

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According to a " fact sheet " on the Americans for Nonsmokers Rights (ANR) web site, short-term use of electronic cigarettes impai...
Monday, April 07, 2014

Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights Disseminating Misleading and Potentially Defamatory Statements About Electronic Cigarette Groups

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In a document entitled "Electronic Cigarettes: Advocacy and Research Updates," and an accompanying "fact" sheet , Ameri...