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Thursday, April 02, 2015
Dr. Alan Blum Points Out Big Tobacco Connections of Sponsor of Film on Cancer
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Dr. Alan Blum - the Gerald Leon Wallace, M.D., Endowed Chair in Family Medicine at the University of Alabama and director of the Center for...
Australian Medical Groups Want to Give Cigarettes a Monopoly by Keeping the Real Ones and Banning the Fake Ones
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According to a recent article in the Herald Sun , several medical and health groups including the Royal Australasian College of Physicians,...
Wednesday, April 01, 2015
New Pilot Study Finds High Cessation Rate among Smokers Making First Purchase at Vape Shops in Italy
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A new study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health reports high rates of smoking cessation at ...
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
E-Cigarette Opponent Uses Cross-Sectional Study to Conclude that E-Cigs are a Gateway to Smoking
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On his blog Sunday, Stan Glantz cited a new UK study as supporting the conclusion that e-cigarettes are a gateway to smoking among youth. ...
Thursday, March 26, 2015
California Department of Public Health E-Cigarette Web Site is Full of Lies; Why Can't They Just Tell the Truth?
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I never thought I would say this, but in March 2015, public health officials are telling more lies to the public about the health effects of...
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
California Department of Public Health Running Campaign to Keep Smokers from Switching to Electronic Cigarettes
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I was absolutely shocked when I viewed the new print ad campaign coming from the California Department of Public Health, which Stan Glantz ...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Washington Governor and Legislature Seeking to Protect Cigarette Profits; Legislation Would Decimate Public Health by Increasing Cigarette Consumption
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Under the guise of acting to "protect the children," the Washington State Governor and legislature are poised to protect cigarette...
Monday, March 23, 2015
March E-Cigarette Madness: Regional Results for Worst E-Cigarette Lie
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Today, I reveal the brackets and the regional finalists for the 2015 Rest of the Story Worst E-Cigarette Lie Championship. Those who have b...
Thursday, March 19, 2015
New Commentary Argues that Electronic Cigarette Use Can Improve Respiratory Health Among Smokers
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In a commentary published yesterday in BMC Medicine , Dr. Riccardo Polosa of the University of Catania reviews existing evidence regarding ...
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Anti-Smoking Group and Advocate Want Conflicted Scientists to Sit on FDA Tobacco Advisory Panel
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Recently, the FDA announced that in compliance with a court ruling, it would re-constitute its Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committ...
Monday, March 16, 2015
Disingenuous As Can Be: Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Urges States to Raise Tobacco Sales Age to 21
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In a press release issued last week, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids has called on state and local governments throughout the country to...
Friday, March 13, 2015
The Complete Blindness of Some E-Cigarette Opponents: Re-Normalization Hypothesis Defies Science and Logic, Ideology Prevents Them from Thinking Straight
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In a position statement on electronic cigarettes published by the Canadian Pediatric Society, Dr. Richard Stanwick, its past president, opi...
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
New Study Provides Evidence that Switching to E-Cigarettes Can Enhance Smoking Cessation, Even for Dual Users
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Electronic cigarette opponents have long argued that dual use offers no health benefits to smokers. Dual use refers to the use of both e-cig...
Thursday, March 05, 2015
Public Policy Maker Becomes the First to Embrace Vaping as a Public Health Strategy to Combat Cigarette Smoking
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I have waited a long time for this, but it has finally happened. A public policy maker has become the first to publicly embrace vaping as a ...
Wednesday, March 04, 2015
My Interview with the Texas E-Cigarette and Vaping Association
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The Texas E-Cigarette and Vaping Association was kind enough to conduct an interview with me on electronic cigarettes. You can listen to the...
Tuesday, March 03, 2015
Study Finds Almost No Hazardous Chemicals in Aerosol of Blu or Sky-Cig E-Cigarettes
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A study published in journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology reports that the two brands of electronic cigarettes tested - Blu and ...
Monday, March 02, 2015
Anti-Smoking Advocate Claims that Vaping One Cartridge is The Same Thing as Smoking 1 1/2 Packs of Cigarettes
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In an article published in the Ft. Wayne (IN) Health Sentinel , the executive director of the Indiana Youth Institute was quoted as stating...
Friday, February 27, 2015
Study Blows Out of the Water the Claim that Substantially Reducing Cigarette Smoking Has No Health Benefits
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One of the most dramatic effects that has been observed in a large proportion of e-cigarette users who are not successful in quitting comple...
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Anti--Smoking Groups' Campaign of Deception About E-Cigarettes Has Completely Undermined the Public's Appreciation of the Severe Hazards of Smoking
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For decades, public health organizations have attempted to educate the public about the severe hazards associated with cigarette smoking, wi...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Exposes Campaign of Deception About E-Cigarettes, Shows How Anti-Smoking Groups are Harming the Public's Health
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My op-ed , entitled "The Misbegotten Crusade Against E-Cigarettes," appears today in the Wall Street Journal . In the piece, I a...
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Tomorrow's SRNT Annual Meeting: Brought to You by Pfizer
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Tomorrow marks the start of the annual meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) in Philadelphia. According to t...
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Monday, February 23, 2015
Anti-Smoking Groups' Demonization of Electronic Cigarettes is Leading to Devastating Consequences
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According to an article in the Gloucester (UK) Citizen , the health scare over electronic cigarettes has led many adoption agencies in the ...
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Washington Governor Asserts that Smoking May Be No More Hazardous than Vaping
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According to a " fact sheet " on electronic cigarettes put out by the office of Washington governor Jay Inslee, cigarette smoking ...
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