Lindsey Stroud
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Budgets/TaxesHealth Care
CDC to Spend Millions Combatting E-Cigs after States Link Hospitalizations to THC
by Lindsey Stroud October 22, 2019More and more young Americans are being hospitalized for side effects from so-called “vaping.” Or so the federal government wants you to think.
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Budgets/TaxesHealth CareTobacco
Shady Companies and Black Market Substances, Not JUUL, Are Causing Hospitalizations
by Lindsey Stroud October 10, 2019Unless you live under a rock, odds are you’ve seen countless, glaring headlines of American youth being hospitalized “due to vaping.”
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Budgets/TaxesTobacco
Dear Senator Warren, the Revolving Door With Gottlieb Didn’t Start at Pfizer
by Lindsey Stroud August 13, 2019Warren barely scratched the surface on the audacity of unelected and unaccountable executive agency officials who blatantly abuse their positions of power for their own gain.
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Environment/Energy
Northam’s RGGI Move Would Add Injury to His Insult of Minorities
by Lindsey Stroud April 15, 2019Northam is threatening to veto legislation recently passed by the General Assembly that would require a two-thirds’ majority vote from the Assembly and Senate to allow the Commonwealth to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).
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Budgets/TaxesGovernmentTobacco
How Government E-Cigarette Restrictions Are Increasing Youth Tobacco Use
by Lindsey Stroud April 11, 2019Across the nation, lawmakers seem stuck in a tragic game of whack-a-mole. The more they try to reduce youth vaping, the more they increase youth combustible cigarette smoking.
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Budgets/TaxesTobacco
Why Are Lawmakers More Concerned with Youth Vaping than Opioid Abuse?
by Lindsey Stroud April 10, 2019Why are lawmakers working so feverishly to limit their access to tobacco harm reduction products like e-cigarettes? The hypocrisy is seemingly endless.
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Health Care
Public Health Officials Should Avoid ‘Deeming’ Epidemics, Especially When They’re Ignoring the One They Created
by Lindsey Stroud February 13, 2019Words matter. For example, when the head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decries an “epidemic,” the media and state policymakers pay attention.
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Health Care
FDA Is Celebrating the Great American Smokeout with a Great Unnecessary Vapeout
by Lindsey Stroud November 15, 2018ACS and many other public health groups fail to acknowledge how successful this year’s Smokeout will be due to the popularity of electronic cigarettes and vaping devices.
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GovernmentHealth CarePoliticsRegulation
Public health groups should be applauding Big Tobacco’s harm reduction efforts
by Lindsey Stroud July 20, 2018It’s been more than 50 years since the surgeon general issued a report linking smoking to health hazards such as lung cancer and heart disease.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedTobacco
San Francisco’s Proposed Flavor Ban is a Disservice to Tobacco Harm Reduction
by Lindsey Stroud June 4, 2018On June 5, voters in San Francisco will vote whether the city should ban flavors, including menthol, in tobacco and vaping products. Proposition E comes a year after the San…
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Health Care
How Much Does the FDA Really do to Promote Public Health?
by Lindsey Stroud May 16, 2018According to its mission statement, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for “advancing public health” by providing oversight to the drug development process.
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FDA’s regulation of electronic cigarettes and vaping devices underscore the agency’s unwillingness to promote, or even acknowledge, tobacco harm reduction (THR) products.
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Budgets/Taxes
How Millennials Can Help Reduce The Federal Deficit
by Lindsey Stroud December 12, 2017Since February 2017, the federal deficit has grown by more than $500 billion, to over $20 trillion. The average debt owed per person is now estimated to be greater than $62,000.