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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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The Military Health System and the Defense Health Agency last November published a grossly misleading article on their website titled, “Quit the spit: Smokeless tobacco no better than lit” (archived…
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February is a popular month for tobacco prohibitionists to attack smokeless tobacco (ST). A year ago, this blog refuted seven false claims (here) from county health departments. This year, the…
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A Swedish research study finds that heavy consumption of snus is associated with type 2 diabetes (abstract here). Analyzing data from six groups of Swedish men, researchers found no risk…
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A man with Tourette Syndrome, a nerve disorder developing in childhood and involving muscle tics (repetitive involuntary movement) and voice problems (here), recently posted online his experience with smokeless tobacco. …
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedRegulationTobaccoComplicated Models Can’t Alter the Data: Smoking Among Youth and Young Adults Is Way Down
Smoking among high school students declined from almost 16% in 2011 to 9% in 2014 – a reduction of 43% in just three years. That is according to data from…
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Two internationally renowned tobacco policy experts are urging “the FDA and like campaigns and health information websites” to “follow established ethical principles and accepted communication methods to inform the public…
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The World Health Organization and the U.S. National Cancer Institute recently published a 700-page report on the economic consequences of smoking, tobacco use, or both (here). The dozens of tobacco…
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released selected information from the 2015 National Youth Tobacco Survey in April 2016 (here). The agency cherry-picked numbers from previous surveys to…
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The Sacramento Bee on January 21 published a column written by a hearing aids company executive. Titled “E-cigarettes may also cause hearing loss” (here), the piece asserted that “damage to…
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FDA Rejects Plea to Correct Smokeless Tobacco Warnings; A Closer Look at Flawed Interpretations
After two and a half years’ review, the FDA Center for Tobacco Products rejected Swedish Match’s request to eliminate or revise the 30-year-old, egregiously inaccurate warnings that are required to…
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A new study from researchers at the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute on Aging finds that even smokers in their 60s who quit can reduce their chances of…
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