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

Parents of a Florida teenager who became addicted to Juul have sued Juul, Altria, and Philip Morris USA based on a number of claims, includ...

A new study published online ahead of print in the American Journal of Medicine reports that there is no association between vaping and ca...

Somewhere along the line, I must have gone astray. During my master's in public health program, I was taught that one major goal of publ...

Here is my point-by-point response to several of the statements made in the press release issued by City Attorney Herrera announcing the i...

Yesterday, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera and Supervisor Shamann Walton announced that they are introducing an ordinance to the ...

Another crappy study has come along, this one again using cross-sectional data from the National Health Interview Survey to claim that e-ci...

My colleagues and I in the tobacco control movement have based our entire careers on the principle that it is wrong to lie to the public. Th...

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...