Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year! The Rest of the Story Will Return on Monday, January 4

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Announcing First-Ever Tobacco Harm Reduction Conference - April 22, 2016

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To the best of my knowledge, the first-ever national tobacco harm reduction conference will be held this spring. The "Tobacco Harm Redu...
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Anti-Vaping Advocate Testifies that E-Cigarette Aerosol is More Toxic than Secondhand Smoke

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According to an article in Latinos Health , the head of the Muskogee Wellness Initiative told county health officials that the aerosol prod...
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Monday, December 21, 2015

Tobacco Free Amarillo Makes Up the Facts to Demonize Electronic Cigarettes

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When the actual facts do not support their position, what do anti-vaping groups like Tobacco Free Amarillo do? Quite simple ... ... the...
Thursday, December 17, 2015

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is Out of Its Mind Declaring that Appropriations Rider Would Have Been a Gift to the Tobacco Industry

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Unfortunately, the budget deal reached in Congress this week fails to include a rider which would have changed the "grandfather" ...
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015

New National Survey Refutes CDC Claim that E-Cigarettes are Addicting Kids and Leading to Smoking

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has claimed that electronic cigarettes are condemning youth to lifetime addiction to ni...
Monday, December 14, 2015

FDA Wants to Know if Your Cigarette is Defective, Damaged, or Contaminated, But Doesn't Care if It Kills You

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In a communication I thought I would never see from a public health agency, the Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) of the Food and Drug Admin...
Thursday, December 10, 2015

New Study Finds that Average Diacetyl Exposure from Vaping is 750 Times Lower than from Smoking

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In a new study that appears designed to send a scare to vapers throughout the country, researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Pub...
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Wednesday, December 09, 2015

Changing Grandfather Date Does Not Mean FDA Cannot Review E-Cigarette Products; Instead, It Will Force Agency to Regulate E-Cigarettes Properly

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Groups that are against tobacco-free cigarettes, and which want to make sure that all cigarettes continue to contain tobacco, continue to mi...
Tuesday, December 08, 2015

New Study Shows that Anti-Vaping Groups' Misinformation is Confusing the Public and Resulting in More Smoking

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A new study published recently in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence shows that in the UK between 2013 and 2014, the percentage of sm...
Monday, December 07, 2015

Yet Another Tobacco Researcher Tells the Public that Smoking May Not Be Any More Hazardous than Vaping

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A tobacco researcher from the University of Southern California last week told the public that smoking may not be any more hazardous than us...
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Thursday, December 03, 2015

Once, Twice, Three Times a Liar: AAFP Letter to Congress on E-Cigarette Predicate Date Lies Three Times, Yet Still Fails to Make Its Point

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In a letter sent yesterday to Representatives Paul Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, and Nancy Pelosi, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) ...
Wednesday, December 02, 2015

Physicians from Weill Cornell Medical College Recommend that Pediatricians Lie to Adolescents About Electronic Cigarettes

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A group of researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College have recently published a review article on electronic cigarettes in which they p...
Tuesday, December 01, 2015

World Lung Foundation Disseminates Conclusion that E-Cigarettes are a Gateway to Smoking Based on a Bogus Study

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In a tweet yesterday, the World Lung Foundation disseminated the conclusion that electronic cigarettes are a gateway to smoking: @WorldLu...
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...