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

It used to be that the tobacco industry lied to the public in order to downplay the severe health effects of cigarette smoking. Today, it is...

New data released moments ago by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) should put to rest the contention that electronic cig...

In an article published in the journal Preventing Chronic Disease, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) re...

In a press release issued this past Tuesday, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids congratulated Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on his electio...

Government officials have now completed an investigation of a second vape shop, finding that levels of chemicals of concern are minimal in t...

In its defense of a lawsuit brought by the family of former San Diego Padres great Tony Gwynn who died of oral cancer in 2014, the U.S. Smok...

Here is a link to my op-ed, published today in the Washington Examiner , and entitled: "Don't Let Alternative Facts Deter Congress ...

As part of its investigation into the potential health effects of electronic cigarettes, the California Department of Public Health has been...

According to multiple sources, Representative Duncan Hunter (R-CA) will introduce legislation tomorrow in the House of Representatives that ...

In 2011, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued regulations that required graphic warning labels on cigarette packages. The FDA chose...

In a press release issued last Friday, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids once again accused the tobacco companies of marketing cotton cand...

An expert at Penn Medicine - the University of Pennsylvania's health care system - is telling the public that smoking cigarettes, like M...

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...