The Rest of the Story: Tobacco and Alcohol News Analysis and Commentary

Vaping opponents are using the results of a new "study" as evidence that vaping causes heart attacks. Here is what my colleague ...

In a letter to the editor published in The Hill , I respond to an op-ed piece published a few days ago in The Hill by the Campaign for To...

In an action alert emailed today to its constituents, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids insinuated that the tobacco companies are producing...

In an interesting twist from the usual reasoning in public health, anti-vaping advocates are promoting the enactment of policies that ban va...

A New York State senator - Brad Hoylman (D-Manhattan) - has introduced legislation to ban the sale of flavored electronic cigarettes in New...

Through a shocking revelation, we learned last week that a major, national anti-tobacco organization ran a secret campaign to promote youth ...

My op-ed on the FDA and regulation of electronic cigarettes appears today here .

The New York State Department of Health has sent out a letter to medical professionals in the state, urging them to discourage patients from...

A paper published in the current issue of the Annals of the American Thoracic Society reports the results of a survey regarding physician ...

In an article published earlier this month in JAMA Pediatrics , the Surgeon General claimed that electronic cigarettes: "are now the m...

Earlier this week, I discussed a press release from the American Heart Association which claimed that vaping causes severe strokes and po...

In a press release issued last Thursday, the American Heart Association claimed that vaping causes severe strokes and poses a higher risk o...

In a revelation of the religious-like character of the modern-day tobacco control movement, the journal Tobacco Control has suggested that ...

A Kentucky health group has orchestrated a campaign to deceive the public about the terrible health hazards associated with smoking by downp...

I have already shown ( post 1 ; post 2 ) why the recently published study in Tobacco Control which purported to demonstrate that vaping is...

Yesterday, I revealed that a new study published in the journal Tobacco Control which concluded that e-cigarettes are a "one-way bri...

A new study published online ahead of print in the journal Tobacco Control concludes that vaping is “a one-way bridge to cigarette smoking...

An international anti-smoking leader has called for prosecution of the heads of the tobacco companies for "crimes against humanity....

In a commentary by the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), it is claimed that electronic cigarettes cause respiratory infe...

A new study published online ahead of print in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research pretty much blows out of the water the hypothes...

I have presented many examples on this blog over the past months demonstrating the fact that vaping opponents are being driven by ideology r...

A new study published online ahead of print in the journal Pediatrics purports to provide evidence that e-cigarettes are encouraging youth...

Apparently, irresponsible medical advice being given to smokers about quitting is not restricted to physicians. Nurses are getting in on the...