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

According to a study conducted by Juul and presented Saturday at the Big-Pharma funded SRNT annual meeting, there is no difference between ...

A basic principle of public health ethics is that we don't lie to people. Telling the truth is a critical component of the public health...

Controversy is brewing in San Francisco this week as it was revealed that the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) accepted m...

A landmark study , published on January 25 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute , found no evidence that vaping is a gateway to s...

Based on the results of a cross-sectional study showing an association between using e-cigarettes and reporting that one has ever been told...

Later this week, a research study will be presented at the International Stroke Conference in Hawaii that purports to show that vaping incre...

According to the headline of a UPI news story from last week, vaping has been linked to an increased risk of having a heart attack. This r...

On Wednesday, the New England Journal of Medicine published a new study that reported the results of a one-year randomized, clinical trial...

And this "Truth" Campaign "Fact" Isn't Even True One of the oft-repeated "facts" being disseminated by ...

Yesterday, the first recreational marijuana facility opened in Massachusetts. Out of curiosity, I decided to check out its menu of offerings...

Tomorrow, the FDA is expected to announce the strictest regulation of cigarettes sales in decades. Spurred by the data showing that nearly 8...

I have been informed by the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work that the School and its research team that had been involved in th...

Two years ago, I explained why I think Anheuser-Busch InBev's Smart Drinking Goals program is a complete farce. Last year, I criticized...

In a decision that I applaud, NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins announced yesterday that based on the recommendation of his Advisory Committe...

In another setback for the NIAAA's and alcohol industry's study of the "health benefits" of encouraging people to drink, A...

In an article published in the Summer 2018 issue of the Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine , two researchers at the Johns Hopkins Blo...

We're well into 2018 and there is now substantial research on the health effects of vaping as well as a decade of experience with large ...

At the House Appropriations Committee hearing on the NIH Budget, NIH director Dr. Francis Collins was grilled about the collusion between th...

I have already explained why I think the Moderate Alcohol and Cardiovascular Health (MACH15) clinical trial should be immediately halted be...

Digging Deeper into the Harvard/NIAAA Solicitation of Alcohol Company Funding In a previous post , I noted that I had reviewed materials o...