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Some published articles are so flawed that they deserve retraction.   

ACS’s new policy statement on e-cigarettes’ role in promoting smoking cessation is a welcome and long-overdue change.

John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #130 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Reason Foundation, the Cato Institute, The Foundation for Government Accountability, the Platte Institute, and the Heartland Institute.

As if the Food and Drug Administration’s deeming regulations weren’t enough to stall the future of the vaping industry, numerous county health departments have decided to lodge themselves in the war against electronic cigarettes.

Will the Deeming Rule kill the vaping industry? Dr. Brad Rodu talks from the Heartland about the future of the industry and what the FDA has in store.

John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #78 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from ALEC, the Heartland Institute, and the Buckeye institute.

Eradication of all tobacco products could only be justified if all such products posed substantial risk to public health. They do not.

In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Lindsey Stroud speaks with Robin Barsky. Barsky, a nurse and member of the board of The Vaping Militia, discusses the health care implications of vaping.

The FDA, which now regulates cigars, has taken the position that “cigar smoking carries many of the same health risks as cigarette smoking.”

John and Donny continue their weekly exploration of think tanks across the country in episode #51 of the In The Tank Podcast. This weekly podcast features (as always) interviews, debates, and roundtable discussions that explore the work of think tanks across the country. The show is available for download as part of the Heartland Daily Podcast every Friday. Today’s podcast features work from the Beacon Center of Tennessee, The Heartland Institute, the National Center For Policy Analysis, and the Foundation for Economic Education.

The FDA wasn’t wrong to regulate e-cigarettes. It was wrong to effectively ban, by its own estimate, up to 98.5% of the e-cigarettes on the market today.

Cigarette smoking has become significantly less popular in the U.S. over the past decade, it still remains a public-health scourge. Smoking accounts for more than 480,000 deaths every year in this country, or about one of every five death, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while an additional 16 million Americans live with a smoking-related disease. Clearly more needs to be done to get Americans to quit smoking.

In an editorial calling for regulations which would put obstacles in front of adults who seek to quit smoking by switching to e-cigarettes, The Sun’s editorial board relies on a powerfully debunked innuendo and preposterous logic (“Teens and e-cigarettes,” Aug. 23).