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

Just over one month ago, I reported that the National Academies had appointed to their newly formed expert committee to review the health e...

I have always thought of the National Academies (full name is the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine [NASEM]) as bein...

In comments submitted to the FDA in response to the Center for Tobacco Products' (CTP) draft strategic plan, the American Lung Associat...

In an article published today by ABC News , a physician from the University of Maryland is quoted as telling the public that he isn't s...

A very well-researched and well-documented article on the CDC's misinformation campaign about electronic cigarettes by my friend and co...

The journal BMC Public Health has announced that it will be retracting a paper it published last October which concluded that the use of e...

In an American Heart Association (AHA) "scientific statement" published this week in the journal Circulation , the AHA continues ...

In a public education campaign entitled "Do You Know Vape?" Idaho Public Television in collaboration with the state health distric...

Earlier this year, the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction released a new guidance on alcohol use. The guidance was notable for ...

A new study published just days ago in the journal Circulation reported that adults who exclusively use electronic cigarettes experience a...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is concealing and suppressing information on the number one cause of severe, vaping-rel...

Imagine if a tobacco company came out today and publicly claimed that smoking might very well be safer than using an e-cigarette. It would b...

I am expecting the FDA to announce this afternoon that it plans to enforce a ban on the sale of all flavored e-cigarette pods and cartridges...

The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has released the results of a survey it commissioned to examine public attitudes regarding...

The CDC has released new data which almost definitively confirm that the respiratory disease outbreak was caused by vitamin E acetate oil in...

In response to an outbreak of multi-drug resistant Campylobacter infections associated with the purchase of puppies from pet stores, the Ma...