Tobacco
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedTobacco
A Vision for Tobacco Policy; 2020 Edition
by Jeff Stier February 10, 2020Overzealous 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 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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FeaturedGovernmentTobacco
Vaping Hysteria Will Mean More Tobacco Deaths
by Jeff Stier August 21, 2019When products could save lives, it’s important for people to be informed about those benefits, along with the risks.
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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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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedRegulationTaxesTobacco
How Vape Shops Make the World a Better Place
by Lindsey Stroud April 15, 2019On 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/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/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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FeaturedHealth CareTobacco
E-Cig Policy Is A Much-Needed Step In The Right Direction
by Jesse Hathaway March 23, 2018ACS’s new policy statement on e-cigarettes’ role in promoting smoking cessation is a welcome and long-overdue change.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedRegulationTobacco
Free Market Groups Urge FDA Approval of New IQOS Tobacco Harm Reduction Product
by Lindsey Stroud September 7, 2017Philip 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
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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Budgets/TaxesRegulationTobacco
Age Restrictions on Smoking, Drinking and Driving
by Brad Rodu April 18, 2017State 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/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…