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

The American Medical Association (AMA) yesterday claimed that electronic cigarettes cause not just one type of cancer, but multiple types.  ...

One of the major arguments that the major national health organizations make against the use of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation is that m...

In its statement responding to the FDA's approval of Zyn nicotine pouches for marketing in the United States, the American Lung Associa...

The American Lung Association has issued a statement in response to the FDA's authorization of Zyn nicotine pouches in which it blasts ...

In an inane statement , the American Lung Association asserted that if you quit smoking by switching to nicotine pouches, you have not quit ...

In light of the FDA's approval yesterday of a pre-market tobacco product application (PMTA) for Zyn nicotine pouches, I did some intern...

In what I find a shocking policy revelation, the director of the UCSF Center for Tobacco Research and Education stated on ABC News that she...

An important but largely ignored study published last week in the journal Biomarkers compared changes in exposure to toxic and carcinogeni...

Through the lobbying efforts and misinformation of multiple anti-vaping groups, of which Parents Against Vaping E-Cigarettes, the American L...

The United States Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, today issued a report calling for cancer warning labels on alcohol. To my knowledge, h...

A study published in the new issue of the journal Tobacco Control tested a series of new potential warning labels for electronic cigarette...

Although there was plentiful competition, I have selected as the most egregious statement about electronic cigarettes in 2024 the following ...

Of all the false and misleading claims about e-cigarettes being made by health groups, there are two types of claims that I find inexcusable...

Perhaps the most misleading and damaging claim that is still being made about e-cigarette use in 2024 is the contention that vaping e-cigare...

There is strong evidence that smokers who switch to e-cigarettes completely are more likely to succeed in quitting than smokers who use nic...

I recently read an article written by the director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at UCSF. What struck me most wa...

The viability of recommending moderate alcohol consumption as a step to reduce all-cause mortality was given a death blow yesterday by the r...

Yesterday, I reported that Parents Against Vaping E-Cigarettes (PAVE) is essentially lying on its website about the prevalence of daily e-c...