Brad Rodu
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Health Care
American Cancer Society Sees Zero Cancer Risk for Smokeless Tobacco
by Brad Rodu June 15, 2018Smokeless tobacco was not among 17 risk factors – a tacit acknowledgment that the risk of cancer from smokeless tobacco is de minimis.
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Health Care
UC San Francisco Authors Inadvertently Validate Our Call for Retraction
by Brad Rodu April 6, 2018The Chafee article must be retracted.
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb on July 28 fully endorsed tobacco harm reduction.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedRegulationTobacco
CDC: E-Cigarettes More Popular Than FDA-Approved Quitting Aids
by Brad Rodu April 18, 2017Cigarette smokers prefer e-cigarettes to FDA-approved quit methods, according to a research brief authored by the CDC Office on Smoking and Health, RTI International and the University of North Carolina…
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This is a tale of two tobacco users and the very different medical advice they received. In 2005, two physicians and a dentist published a report in the American Journal…
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Budgets/TaxesRegulationTobacco
Educating Air Force Generals About Tobacco Use & Risks
by Brad Rodu March 27, 2017The Military Health System and the Defense Health Agency last November published a grossly misleading article on their website titled, “Quit the spit: Smokeless tobacco no better than lit” (archived…
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedTobacco
E-Cigarette Toxic Chemical Exposure Is Same as for Nonsmokers
by Brad Rodu March 9, 2017The new finding from British and U.S. e-cigarette researchers understated the good news for vapers. “Long-term NRT-only and e-cigarette-only use…is associated with substantially reduced levels of measured carcinogens and toxins…
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Budgets/TaxesRegulationTobacco
Heavy Snus Use: Possible Link to Type 2 Diabetes
by Brad Rodu March 3, 2017A Swedish research study finds that heavy consumption of snus is associated with type 2 diabetes (abstract here). Analyzing data from six groups of Swedish men, researchers found no risk…
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Budgets/TaxesRegulationTobacco
Complicated Models Can’t Alter the Data – Part 2: Youth Smoking Is Way Down
by Brad Rodu February 21, 2017As reported here last week, University of California San Francisco researchers Lauren Dutra and Stanton Glantz tortured data from the National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) to support a purported “lack…
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedRegulationTobacco
Complicated Models Can’t Alter the Data: Smoking Among Youth and Young Adults Is Way Down
by Brad Rodu February 8, 2017Smoking among high school students declined from almost 16% in 2011 to 9% in 2014 – a reduction of 43% in just three years. That is according to data from…
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Budgets/TaxesTobacco
Federal Studies: ZERO Mouth Cancer Deaths Among Men Who Dip or Chew Tobacco
by Brad Rodu February 1, 2017The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) on January 23, 2017 published a proposed smokeless tobacco (ST) regulation (here) that is based on erroneous calculations of ST risks. The agency…
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Budgets/TaxesTobacco
New WHO/NCI Report Falsely Conflates Smoking & Tobacco
by Brad Rodu February 1, 2017The World Health Organization and the U.S. National Cancer Institute recently published a 700-page report on the economic consequences of smoking, tobacco use, or both (here). The dozens of tobacco…
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Budgets/TaxesTobacco
Confirmed: Snus Use Protective for Parkinson’s Disease
by Brad Rodu January 6, 2017Investigators in Sweden, Italy and the United States report that “non-smoking men who used snus had a substantially reduced risk of Parkinson’s disease…” The research, published in the International Journal…