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Tuesday, August 20, 2024

New Data Show that E-Cigarettes are Saving Lives and Debunk Claims by Opponents that Vaping is a Gateway to Smoking

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The claim by opponents of e-cigarettes that vaping is a gateway to smoking and will increase the long-term hazards of tobacco product use ha...
Sunday, August 04, 2024

Why is Congress Interfering With Science to Protect the Alcohol Industry?

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Background In 2004, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services created an interagency committee to direct federal efforts to reduce u...
Friday, January 05, 2024

National Academies Replaces Big Alcohol-Conflicted Researcher on Review Panel with Another Big Alcohol-Conflicted Researcher

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Just over one month ago, I reported that the National Academies had appointed to their newly formed expert committee to review the health e...
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Why is the National Academies Appointing Alcohol-Industry Funded Researchers to Serve on Panel to Review the Health Effects of Alcohol?

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I have always thought of the National Academies (full name is the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine [NASEM]) as bein...
Thursday, August 31, 2023

American Lung Association Wants to Keep Smokers Misinformed About the Relative Risks of Different Tobacco Products

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In comments submitted to the FDA in response to the Center for Tobacco Products' (CTP) draft strategic plan, the American Lung Associat...
Monday, July 31, 2023

University of Maryland Doctor Tells Public He's Not Sure Smoking is Any More Hazardous than Vaping

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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...
Friday, July 28, 2023

Great Article on the CDC's Misinformation Campaign About Electronic Cigarettes

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

Medical Journal Retracts Vaping Study for Political, Rather than Scientific Reasons

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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...
Monday, July 17, 2023

American Heart Association Still Refuses to Tell the Truth About EVALI and Makes No Specific Recommendation that Youth Avoid Vaping THC Products

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In an American Heart Association (AHA) "scientific statement" published this week in the journal Circulation , the AHA continues ...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Idaho Public Television and State Health Officials Lie to the Public by Telling them Smoking is Not More Harmful than Vaping

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In a public education campaign entitled "Do You Know Vape?" Idaho Public Television in collaboration with the state health distric...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

ISFAR Criticizes New Alcohol Guidance Issued by Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction But Fails to Reveal Its Conflicts of Interest with Big Alcohol

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Earlier this year, the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction released a new guidance on alcohol use. The guidance was notable for ...
Wednesday, May 11, 2022

New Study Finds that Switching from Smoking to Vaping Reduces Heart Disease Risk by 34%

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A new study published just days ago in the journal Circulation reported that adults who exclusively use electronic cigarettes experience a...
Sunday, January 26, 2020

CDC is Concealing and Suppressing Information on Youth Marijuana Vaping to Over-hype Harms of E-Cigarettes

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is concealing and suppressing information on the number one cause of severe, vaping-rel...
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Wednesday, January 08, 2020

Tobacco Researcher Claims that Smoking May Be Safer than E-Cigarettes

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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...
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Thursday, January 02, 2020

Vape Shops Saved for Now: Dodged One Bullet, But Now Must Dodge Another One

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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...
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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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