The Rest of the Story: Tobacco and Alcohol News Analysis and Commentary

One lesson that has become apparent in the past few months is that for many anti-smoking advocates and groups, it doesn't matter whether...

In an op-ed piece published last Sunday in the Augusta Chronicle , the director of the Georgia Regents University Cancer Center warns of ma...

The Centers for Disease Control has asserted that electronic cigarette use among youth is a gateway to a lifetime of addiction to smoking. T...

The Michigan Medical Society has opposed legislation that would protect the public's health by prohibiting the sale of electronic cigar...

A D.C. District Court judge has invalidated the FDA's Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC) report on menthol because ...

While there is still a lot we do not know about the exact magnitude of any long-term risks associated with electronic cigarette use, vapers ...

In her article on CDC's "Tips from Former Smokers" anti-smoking campaign, Nancy Wride of Elements Behavioral Health made an ...

For several months, a group of Democratic senators - led by Dick Durbin (D-IL), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and John Rockefeller (D-WV) - hav...

"Support public education: Buy cigarettes." That might as well be the slogan for T-shirts that come out of the Pennsylvania legi...

Yesterday, a group of international lung health organizations issued a position statement on electronic cigarettes, which called for a ban (...

Tony Newman, the media relations director for the Drug Policy Alliance, has written a cogent piece which is a must-read for anyone who has ...

Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis wants to encourage smokers to quit, but only in the way the hospital says they should quit. Specifi...

According to an article in the Sand Paper , the New Jersey state legislature has passed legislation that would ban smoking in all state par...

Sometimes, reality isn't what it seems. And once in a rare while, it is exactly the opposite. That is the case in today's Rest of th...

Vapers Club, Vapers Forum, Vapers Place, Utah Vapers, Consumer Advocates for Smoke-free Alternatives Association, Tobacco Vapor Electronic C...

A scientist who is currently with the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education (home of Dr. Stan Glantz) is part of a research...

A number of policy makers - including several prominent U.S. senators - have called for a ban on e-cigarette flavorings in order to reduce t...

Yesterday, I reported that Drs. Stan Glantz and Simon Chapman issued defamatory attacks against Lorillard for running an inappropriate blu ...

On his tobacco blog , Dr. Stan Glantz links to a quite inappropriate advertisement for blu electronic cigarettes, attacking Lorillard for us...

A new study published yesterday in the journal BMC Cardiovascular Disorders reports that unlike real cigarettes, electronic cigarettes do n...

Last Wednesday, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Technology held a hearing on the marketing of electronic cigarettes. Several ...

Organizations that oppose electronic cigarettes, such as the CDC and FDA, and anti-smoking advocates who oppose these products, like Dr. Sta...

A new study published today in the journal Tobacco Control demonstrates why the FDA's proposed regulatory approach for electronic ciga...

Many tobacco control advocates have asked me why, as a harm reduction supporter, I am always talking about the use of electronic cigarettes ...