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A research letter published last week in JAMA asserts that teens who used e-cigarettes became “heavy” smokers.  The research appears to have been engineered to produce that result. The lead…

A feature of this month’s annual meeting of the Smoke-Free Alternatives Trade Association (SFATA) was a videotaped interview with Mitch Zeller, the director of the FDA Center for Tobacco Products. Following…

A commentary on “the political, social, genetic, and neuroscientific challenges in continuing an abstinence-only approach to nicotine use” was recently published by University of Ottawa Faculty of Law Adjunct Professsor…

E-cigarettes and vaping are transforming tobacco use in the U.S. and worldwide.  The innovative products are being used almost exclusively by smokers looking for substitutes for more harmful conventional combustible tobacco.  This…