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Budgets/TaxesTobacco
Another Engineered Study Claims Teen Vaping Leads to Smoking
by Brad Rodu November 18, 2016A 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…
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Budgets/TaxesTobacco
FDA Tobacco Director Ignores 2.5 Million “Anecdotal Reports” About E-Cigarettes
by Brad Rodu November 3, 2016A 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…
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Budgets/TaxesTobacco
Intelligent Regulation of Smokeless Tobacco: Currently an Oxymoron
by Brad Rodu October 14, 2016A 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…
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Budgets/TaxesTaxesTobacco
‘ENDS’ Don’t Justify the Means with E-Cigarettes
by Brad Rodu October 10, 2016E-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…