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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedRegulationTobacco
With Latest Announcement, FDA Inches Closer to Tobacco Harm Reduction
by Lindsey Stroud August 3, 2017On Friday, July 28 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced changes in their regulation of tobacco products, including electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS). FDA ascribed their Center for Tobacco…
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The Trump administration should no longer defend FDA’s indefensible vaping ban.
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Budgets/TaxesRegulationTobacco
Anti-Vaping Advocates Support Indoor Vaping Bans Because We Don’t Know if Secondhand Vaping is Harmful
by Dr. Michael Siegel March 27, 2017In an interesting twist from the usual reasoning in public health, anti-vaping advocates are promoting the enactment of policies that ban vaping in public places not because secondhand vaping has…
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedRegulationTobacco
New Study Finds More Evidence for Harm Reduction in Electronic Cigarettes
by Lindsey Stroud February 7, 2017A new study finds electronic cigarettes to be less toxic as compared to traditional, combustible cigarettes. Funded by Cancer Research UK, the cross-sectional study examined the levels of exposure to…
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The British Medical Journal published a study in June that examined the “effectiveness and safety of electronic cigarettes at 24 months.” Measuring the “sustained abstinence from tobacco cigarettes”, the study…
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Heartland Daily Podcast – Cynthia Cabrera: The FDA’s War on E-Cigarettes and Vaping
by Jesse Hathaway May 17, 2016In this episode of the weekly Budget & Tax News podcast, managing editor and research fellow Jesse Hathaway talks about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration new “deeming regulations” for electronic cigarettes, which require e-cigarette manufacturers to submit their products through an arduous federal approval process.
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FeaturedTobacco
FDA Essentially Bans E-Cigarettes with New Regulations
by Lindsey Stroud May 6, 2016No serious study has ever been produced by the FDA to conclude anything but the positive health benefits of vaporized nicotine products compared to smoking cigarettes. So the FDA’s new regulations in the name of protecting public health will actually achieve the opposite … which is sadly typical for government work these days.
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For decades, lawmakers and regulators in the United States have attempted to reduce smoking rates using taxes, smoking bans, and regulations. Despite these heavy-handed policies, the decline in smoking has leveled off over the past few years. Electronic cigarettes, meanwhile, have quickly become one of the most popular nicotine replacement products, with the total market expected to reach $1.7 billion in 2015.
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Recently I attended a forum on e-cigarettes, sponsored by a political organization that wanted to educate its attendees about the devices. During the discussion my opponent [from the prohibitionist American Legacy Foundation] repeated the baseless claim that there is no evidence that e-cigarettes help smokers quit.
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FeaturedTobacco
Heartland Institute E-Cigarette Experts Submit Comments to Food and Drug Administration
by Jim Lakely August 9, 2014The FDA’s proposed regulation would decimate the small businesses that make up America’s independent e-cigarette industry and remove a powerful tool smokers are using to kick the habit.
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VID: Greg Gutfeld’s EPIC Rant about NYC Ban on E-Cigarettes
by Jim Lakely December 20, 2013Greg Gutfeld is angry, and rightly so, because “vaping” electronic cigarettes is harmless to anyone around them.
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FeaturedLibertyPolitics
The Merry E-Cigarette Vaping Christmas Game
by Brian Fojtik December 20, 2013Says the left: “What right do these filthy, disgusting vermin who smoked cigarettes have to choose something that the left hadn’t approved for them?”
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FeaturedHealth CarePolitics
Nanny Bloomberg Strikes Again: Wants to Ban Electronic Cigarettes
by Patrick Gleason August 14, 2013New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s aggressive nanny-state policies — such as his crusades against trans fats and large-size sodas — have been annoying and, at times, unconstitutional. While some of…