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Monday, November 16, 2015

Anti-Smoking Groups are Admitting that They Can't Handle the Truth and Have No Interest in Sharing It

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A revealing email from a state health department worker to Dr. Stan Glantz demonstrates the way in which anti-smoking groups are unable to h...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

First PMTA Approvals by FDA Demonstrate Why Treating E-Cigarettes Like Tobacco Products Makes No Sense and Will Decimate the Industry

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This Tuesday, the FDA announced that for the first time, it had approved a set of new tobacco products for delivery into inter-state commer...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

IN MY VIEW: In Reality, FDA Deeming Regulations are Thinly Veiled Prohibition

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Yesterday, based on my analysis of the FDA draft guidance that will accompany the electronic cigarette deeming regulations, I explained tha...
Monday, November 09, 2015

FDA is Out of Its Mind: Deeming Regulations Should Be Called "The Cigarette Protection Act of 2015"; Regs are an Embarrassment to Public Health and Will Decimate the Vaping Industry

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OMB Should Be Called Upon to Disapprove the Regulations and to Require Changes to Protect the Public's Health The Tobacco Vapor Electr...
Thursday, November 05, 2015

American Lung Association and CVS Campaign Downplays the Importance of Smoking in Preventing Lung Cancer

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Ad Looks Like Big Tobacco Ad from the 20th Century  The American Lung Association (ALA), with primary financial support from CVS Health (C...
Wednesday, November 04, 2015

New Population-Based Study Shows that Adult E-Cigarette Use Has an Overall Benefit for the Public's Health

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A new study published in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research is the first population-based study to comprehensively examine the pa...
Tuesday, November 03, 2015

Alaska State Health Director Lies About Risks of Smoking, Surpassing the Modern-Day Tobacco Industry in Dishonesty

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One of the major changes in the tobacco industry in the past decade and a half is that it is no longer undermining the public's apprecia...
Monday, November 02, 2015

CDC Irresponsibly Lies to Public: Tells 1/4-Pack Per Day Smokers that They Might as Well Smoke 2 Packs Per Day

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday told 1/4 pack per day smokers that they might as well smoke 2 packs per day. ...
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...
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Michael Siegel
Dr. Siegel is a visiting professor and researcher in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine. The views expressed here are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Tufts University. Dr. Siegel has 32 years of experience in the field of tobacco control. He previously spent two years working at the Office on Smoking and Health at CDC, where he conducted research on secondhand smoke and cigarette advertising. He has published nearly 70 papers related to tobacco. He testified in the landmark Engle lawsuit against the tobacco companies, which resulted in an unprecedented $145 billion verdict against the industry. He teaches health communication theory and social mareketing in the Masters of Public Health program.
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