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Overzealous health authorities in the U.S. have a lot to learn from their lackluster performance in 2019. But there’s hope. Hindsight is so 2020.
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Budgets/TaxesHealth CareTobaccoShady Companies and Black Market Substances, Not JUUL, Are Causing Hospitalizations
Unless 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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When products could save lives, it’s important for people to be informed about those benefits, along with the risks.
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Warren 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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On March 4, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a statement the vaping community long assumed to be true: mom-and-pop vape shops are not the major culprits selling kids nicotine and tobacco products.
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Budgets/TaxesGovernmentTobaccoHow Government E-Cigarette Restrictions Are Increasing Youth Tobacco Use
Across 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/TaxesFeaturedTobaccoSan Francisco’s Proposed Flavor Ban is a Disservice to Tobacco Harm Reduction
On 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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ACS’s new policy statement on e-cigarettes’ role in promoting smoking cessation is a welcome and long-overdue change.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedRegulationTobaccoFree Market Groups Urge FDA Approval of New IQOS Tobacco Harm Reduction Product
Philip Morris International (PMI) has recently submitted modified risk tobacco product (MRTP) applications to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for market approval of its iQOS heated tobacco products. iQOS…
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedRegulationTobacco
With Latest Announcement, FDA Inches Closer to Tobacco Harm Reduction
On 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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State legislatures have been lobbied in a coordinated effort, called Tobacco 21 (here), to raise the minimum age for tobacco sales from 18 to 21 years. Hawaii, California and the…
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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/TaxesRegulationTobaccoAnti-Vaping Advocates Support Indoor Vaping Bans Because We Don’t Know if Secondhand Vaping is Harmful
In 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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