Monday, October 31, 2016

Why are CDC and the FDA Incapable of Telling the Truth? E-Cigarettes are NOT a Form of Tobacco Use

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In an article published Friday in the journal Tobacco Control , the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Office on Smokin...
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Monday, October 17, 2016

RegulatorWatch Segment on the Vaping Controversy - Part Two

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Here is the second part of a two-part series in which Brent Stafford interviews me about the vaping controversy. Brent did a fantastic job...
Friday, October 14, 2016

RegulatorWatch Segment on the Vaping Controversy

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Here is the first part of a two-part series in which Brent Stafford interviews me about the vaping controversy. Brent did a fantastic job o...
Thursday, October 13, 2016

Why is the Massachusetts Health Council Helping Coca-Cola in its Marketing of Soda?

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This coming Tuesday, the Massachusetts Health Council will be hosting its annual "Dining with the Stars" awards gala . One organiz...
Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Dieticians are Being Paid Off to Promote Soda Consumption and Oppose Soda Taxes, Defiling their Profession; Soda Companies Following Big Tobacco Playbook

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(Note: See addendum below) Earlier this week, Dan Aaron and I published an article revealing that the major soda companies - Coca-Cola an...
Monday, October 10, 2016

FDA Poised to Issue Rule that Will Be Devastating for Public Health, and Possibly Unconstitutional

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It appears that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is preparing to issue a rule that would prohibit e-cigarette companies from suggestin...
Thursday, October 06, 2016

National Anti-Tobacco Groups File Feeble Lawsuit Against FDA While Continuing to Oppose Smoking Cessation via Vaping

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Earlier this week, eight national anti-tobacco groups, headlined by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, filed a lawsuit against the FDA in ...
Tuesday, October 04, 2016

IN MY VIEW: FDA is Partly to Blame for Explosion that Injured Teen on the Hogwarts Express

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For several years, the FDA has been nagging us about how important it is that the agency claim jurisdiction over electronic cigarettes becau...
Monday, October 03, 2016

Medical School Researchers Criticize Campaigns Intended to Get Smokers to Quit

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In a shocking and ironic development, a group of medical school researchers has attacked efforts to promote smoking cessation among adult sm...
Thursday, September 29, 2016

Article Defending Nicotine Replacement Therapy Fails to Disclose Author's Conflict of Interest with Big Pharma

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In another example that demonstrates the hidden influence of Big Pharma on tobacco treatment policy and the extent to which many defenders o...
Wednesday, September 28, 2016

FDA Issues New Draft Guidance on Regulation Compliance for Certain Types of E-Cigarettes; CDC Comments

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The FDA took steps yesterday to clear a big point of confusion that has arisen concerning a subset of electronic cigarettes on the market. D...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

FDA and CDC are Lying About the Most Basic of Facts; How Can We Trust Them on More Complex Issues?

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Donald Trump is not the only one who needs some fact-checking. My analysis of the September 22 article by the CDC's Office on Smoking a...
Monday, September 26, 2016

American Lung Association Tells Public that Smoking May Be No More Hazardous than Vaping

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Despite the abundance of scientific evidence, including clinical studies, which demonstrate that vaping is much safer than smoking, the Amer...
Friday, September 23, 2016

FDA Violated Ethics Rules to Censor Dissenting Opinions about Its E-Cigarette Regulations

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According to a shocking expos é in the October 16th issue of Scientific American written by Charles Seife, the FDA censored dissenting opi...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Helena Miracle? Not So Much; New Study Casts Doubt on Conclusions of Anti-Smoking Groups

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For many years, anti-smoking groups have been claiming that smoking bans result in an immediate and dramatic decline in hospitalizations for...