Monday, November 30, 2015

Op-Ed in The Hill Argues for a Change in the Predicate Date for E-Cigarettes; Supports Appropriations Rider that Would Accomplish This

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Today, Scott Ballin and I published an op-ed article in The Hill which argues that the predicate date for electronic cigarettes should be ...
Sunday, November 29, 2015

New Study Suggests Very Little Risk Associated with Passive Vaping, At Least with MarkTen E-Cigarettes

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A new study published online last week in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene provides strong new evidence that passive ...
Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Thanks to Invalid NEJM Formaldehyde Study, Public is Being Told that Cancer Risk from Vaping is 15 Times Higher than from Smoking

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According to an article published yesterday at CapeCod.com , the cancer risk from vaping is 5 to 15 times higher than the cancer risk from ...
Monday, November 23, 2015

Why are Altria and Reynolds American Supporting Increased Competition Against Cigarettes While Health Groups are Protecting Cigarette Profits?

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Altria and Reynolds American are Supporting Policies that are Not in Their Best Economic Interest but which Protect the Public's Health ...
Friday, November 20, 2015

My Public Comment to OIRA on FDA Deeming Regulations

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This morning, I met with several staff of the Office on Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) of the Office of Management and Budget (OM...
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Nominee for New FDA Commissioner Derived Salary from Six Pharmaceutical Companies LAST YEAR

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In President Obama's first inauguration speech, he promised to restore science to its proper place in government by shielding the regula...
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 ...