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Thursday, January 28, 2016

Researchers Fail to Disclose Conflicts of Interest with Big Pharma and Appear to Hide their Financial Relationships

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In an article published in the current issue of the journal Addiction regarding effective treatment for smoking cessation, all co-authors ...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

New Ohio Poll Shows that Anti-Vaping Groups Have Completely Undermined the Public's Appreciation of the Hazards of Smoking

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New survey data out of Ohio demonstrate that the anti-vaping groups, through their campaign of deception about e-cigarettes, have completel...
Monday, January 25, 2016

Switching to Electronic Cigarettes Improves Cardiovascular Health of Smokers, Even Among Dual Users

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There is already strong evidence that switching from smoking to electronic cigarettes results in immediate improvement in the respiratory h...
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Alaska's Chief Medical Officer Says Using E-Cigarettes is Riskier for Youth than Smoking

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While I do commit typographical errors from time to time, the headline you have just read is correct. The chief medical officer at the Alask...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Study that Purports to Show Vaping Causes Smoking Initiation and Impedes Cessation is a Complete Sham

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According to a new study published in Swiss Medical Weekly , vaping leads to smoking initiation and inhibits smoking cessation. (See: Gme...
Thursday, January 14, 2016

In Press Release "Correction," VA Researcher Reiterates that Smoking May Be No More Hazardous than Vaping

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In response to complaints (see my post here ) about its press release and media coverage of a recent study on the cytotoxicity of electronic...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Yet Another E-Cigarette Study Draws Conclusions that are Unsupported by the Actual Data; This Time, Researchers Claim Vaping Can Cause Car Crashes

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A paper recently published online in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence concludes that vaping e-liquids that contain high (23.5%) alc...
Tuesday, January 12, 2016

American Heart Association Expresses Disappointment that Kids are Moving Away from Smoking

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In a shocking, but revealing statement, the American Heart Association (AHA) has expressed disappointment that kids are moving away from smo...
Monday, January 11, 2016

New Study Provides Experimental Evidence that E-Cigarette Advertising Does Not Renormalize Smoking

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Perhaps the most critical argument of anti-vaping advocates is that the promotion of electronic cigarette use will renormalize smoking. Pres...
Thursday, January 07, 2016

City of St. Paul Takes Cowardly Political Move that is a Public Health Sham; Anti-Smoking Groups Supporting Law Should be Ashamed

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Last night, the St. Paul City Council voted to enact an ordinance which bans the sale of flavored tobacco products and flavored electronic...

National Survey Confirms that FDA E-Cigarette Regulations Would Renormalize Smoking

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The mantra of the anti-vaping movement has been that the spread of electronic cigarette use threatens to renormalize smoking. For example, t...
Wednesday, January 06, 2016

Health Groups Continue to Spread False and Misleading Information about Electronic Cigarettes

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The volume of misleading information being put out by health groups regarding electronic cigarettes is becoming so high that I cannot stick ...
Tuesday, January 05, 2016

Without Any Evidence, CDC Continues to Claim that E-Cigarettes are a Gateway to Youth Smoking

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CDC Also Continues to Lie About E-Cigarettes Being Tobacco Products Back in 2013, the CDC began to wage a campaign of deception about ele...
Monday, January 04, 2016

New Year Begins With Anti-Vaping Researcher Telling Public that Smoking is No More Hazardous than Vaping

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For those of us who thought that the tobacco control movement's New Year's resolution was to stop distorting and misrepresenting sci...
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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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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