Wednesday, October 28, 2015

New CDC Data Suggest that Electronic Cigarettes are Strongly Associated with Quit Attempts

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New CDC data released today on adult use of electronic cigarettes in 2014 suggest that vaping is strongly associated with quit attempts. Th...

Coming Soon: Analysis of FDA Deeming Regulations for Electronic Cigarettes and Vaping Devices

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The Tobacco Vapor Electronic Cigarette Association is releasing a copy of the FDA e-cigarette deeming regulations in sections (it is more th...

New Study Finds that Reducing Youth Access to E-Cigarettes May Increase Youth Smoking

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A new study published online ahead of print in the Journal of Health Economics finds that state laws which reduce youth access to e-cigare...
Monday, October 26, 2015

Democratic Senators Urge OMB to Decimate Electronic Cigarette Industry

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In a letter sent last Wednesday to the Office on Management and Budget (OMB), 11 Democratic senators, led by Jeff Merkley (OR) and Richard ...
Monday, October 19, 2015

Nocera and Myers Hit Nail on the Head: FDA Should be "Pilloried" for Forcing E-Cigarette Companies to Hide the Truth from Consumers

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New York Times columnist Joe Nocera and Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids' director Matt Myers have hit the nail on the head. In an incisi...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

American Lung Association: Real Cigarettes are No More Hazardous than Fake Ones

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In a lie of epic proportions, the American Lung Association of the Upper Midwest has publicly claimed that smoking real (tobacco) cigarette...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

CDC Continues to Mislead the Public by Classifying E-Cigarettes as Tobacco Products and Not Admitting that They Contain No Tobacco

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to mislead the public by classifying electronic cigarettes as tobacco product...
Tuesday, October 13, 2015

New Article Demonstrates Severe Bias by Anti-Tobacco Researchers in the Communication of Scientific Results about E-Cigarettes

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A paper published this week online ahead of print in the journal Current Environmental Health Reports concludes that "secondhand...
Thursday, October 08, 2015

Anti-Smoking Researcher: Cutting Down on the Amount You Smoke Has Benefits if You Cut Down Using Low-Nicotine Cigarettes, But Not if You Use E-Cigarettes

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In a Jekyll and Hyde fashion, Dr. Stan Glantz has taken two opposite positions on the issue of whether reducing cigarette consumption can co...
Wednesday, October 07, 2015

Bias in Anti-Tobacco Movement is Laid Bare: If You Don't Quit the Way We Want You to Quit, Then Don't Bother

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After last week's publication of a new study which found that smokers switching to very low-nicotine cigarettes did not compensate by s...
Monday, October 05, 2015

Anti-Tobacco Groups Publicly Lie About the Effects of Low-Nicotine Cigarettes; Our Honesty is as Bad as the Tobacco Industry of Old

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One of the core principles of public health is honesty. Our ethical code requires that we tell the truth to the public about potential healt...
Thursday, October 01, 2015

Contrary to the Way Results Were Reported, New Study Did Not Find a Reduction in Cigarettes Smoked with Low-Nicotine Cigarettes

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New research published in the New England Journal of Medicine is widely being reported by anti-smoking groups and advocates as having foun...

NEJM Commentary Written by Anti-Tobacco Researchers Hides Conflicts of Interest with Big Pharma

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An article published today in the New England Journal of Medicine discusses the results of a clinical trial of low-nicotine cigarettes for...

New Study Violates Research Ethics by Assigning Subjects to Smoke, Instructing Them to Smoke, and Failing to Provide Mandated Care

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A study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine describes the results of a clinical trial in which adult smokers who expres...
Wednesday, September 30, 2015

As Youth Smoking Rates Continue to Plummet, Anti-Smoking Advocates Continue to Claim E-Cigarettes are a Gateway to Youth Smoking

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New data from the Florida Department of Health show that in 2015, smoking among Florida youth dropped to its lowest all-time level, with on...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

FDA Completely Misinterprets Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act in Warning Letters to E-Cigarette Company

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My examination of the warning letter written by the FDA to Johnson Creek reveals that the agency is completely misinterpreting the Food, Dru...
Monday, September 28, 2015

FDA's Proposed Rule on Allowable E-Cigarette Claims Runs Afoul of Both the Constitution and the Law

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Last week, the FDA gave notice of its intent to promulgate a rule that clarifies the classification of e-cigarettes as either drugs or recr...