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Friday, November 22, 2019

Case of Popcorn Lung in Canada Due to E-Cigarettes? Not so Fast

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It is being widely reported in the media that there was recently a case of "popcorn lung" in Canada that was due to the use of e-c...
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Thursday, November 21, 2019

House Lawmakers Decide Not to Tackle Respiratory Disease Outbreak: They Decide to Let More Kids Get Sick in Order to Protect a $2.5 Billion Illegal Industry

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With more than 2,000 cases of severe respiratory failure--mostly among youth and young adults--and 42 deaths resulting from vaping-associate...
Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Massachusetts State Senate Votes to Ban Almost All E-Cigarettes, But to Leave the Real Deadly Ones on the Shelves

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In a move that defies public health logic, the Massachusetts Senate today voted for a bill that would ban the sale of virtually all e-cigare...
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Massachusetts Senate Uses a Big Tobacco Tactic: Votes Not to Allocate Master Settlement Agreement Money to Smoking Prevention and Cessation; In that Light, the Flavor Ban is Disingenuous

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Anyone who thought the Massachusetts state Senate's probable passage of a bill tonight that will ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes a...
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

American Medical Association Calls for Removal of the Main Competitors to Cigarettes from the Market

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In a resolution that is the most dangerous health-related policy proposal from a medical or health organization that I have seen in my care...
Saturday, November 16, 2019

American Heart Association Urges Parents to Lie to Their Kids About E-Cigarettes and Not to Answer their Questions

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It has been well established that using e-cigarettes is far safer than smoking. Clinical studies show that smokers who switch to e-cigarette...

While American Heart Association Claims E-Cigarettes are as Harmful as Smoking, a Clinical Trial Shows Immediate Cardiovascular Improvement After Smokers Switched to E-Cigarettes

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Last week, the American Heart Association issued a press release whose headline read: "E-cigarettes take serious toll on heart healt...
Friday, November 15, 2019

Bill Passed by Massachusetts House Would Allow Police to Seize Cars from Vapers who Possess DIY or Black Market E-Liquids

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But You Can Drive With Marijuana or Cartons of Marlboros in Your Car To Your Heart's Content Jacob Sullum , a senior editor at Reason...
Thursday, November 14, 2019

Massachusetts House Passes Bill that Promotes Marlboro Cigarettes; Why are They Doing This Huge Favor for Philip Morris?

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Yesterday was a dream come true at the Massachusetts State House for Philip Morris USA - the nation's largest domestic cigarette manufac...
Tuesday, November 12, 2019

The Bias Against E-Cigarettes in Medical Research: An Example from the American Heart Association Annual Meeting

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Later this week, the American Heart Association will hold its annual scientific conference in Philadelphia. In anticipation of the conferenc...
Monday, November 11, 2019

CDC and Anti-E-Cigarette Researcher Still Clinging to Faint Hope that Traditional E-Cigarettes are Causing Outbreak

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It is now apparent that, as many of us figured out months ago, the use of vitamin E acetate oil as a thickening agent in THC vaping cartridg...
Friday, November 08, 2019

CDC Announces "Major Breakthrough" that I Recognized and Reported Two Months Ago; Outbreak is Almost Certainly Not Associated with Legal Nicotine Vapes

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Minutes ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced what they called a " major breakthrough " in its inves...
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Thursday, November 07, 2019

Wisconsin Physician Warns Public That A Single Puff from a Nicotine Vape Could Kill You

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There is an inordinate amount of unjustified hysteria about the dangers of electronic cigarettes. And it continues to drive me crazy to read...
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Policy Makers are Deceiving Themselves if They Believe Banning Flavored E-Cigarettes is Going to End Youth Vaping of Flavored Products

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Major Exemption in Proposed Flavor Ban Leaves Most Kid-Friendly Flavors on the Market The most basic premise of the proposal to ban flavo...
Sunday, November 03, 2019

CDC and State Health Departments are Wrong to Inform the Public that Some Case Patients Used Only Nicotine E-Liquids

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Because the CDC and state health departments have deliberately been conflating the respiratory disease outbreak with the general problem of ...

Why I Think the FDA's Imminent Ban on Flavored E-Cigarettes is Unlawful

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I expect the FDA to announce soon that it is banning the sale of all flavored e-cigarettes, with the exception of tobacco and probably mint ...

I Expect FDA to Announce Flavor Ban This Week, But Vapers Save Mint and Menthol E-Cigarettes

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Due to the outcry from the vaping community, it appears that mint and menthol will be excluded from a ban on flavored e-cigarettes that I ex...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Sales Data Show that Massachusetts Vaping Product Ban Has Already Caused Severe Harm as Vapers Migrate to Smoking in Large Numbers

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Sales data reported by PiperJaffray for the four weeks ending October 20 (when the Massachusetts emergency ban was in effect for 25 of the 2...
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Michael Siegel
Dr. Siegel is a visiting professor and researcher in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine. The views expressed here are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Tufts University. Dr. Siegel has 32 years of experience in the field of tobacco control. He previously spent two years working at the Office on Smoking and Health at CDC, where he conducted research on secondhand smoke and cigarette advertising. He has published nearly 70 papers related to tobacco. He testified in the landmark Engle lawsuit against the tobacco companies, which resulted in an unprecedented $145 billion verdict against the industry. He teaches health communication theory and social mareketing in the Masters of Public Health program.
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