E-Cigarette
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedRegulationTobacco
Complicated Models Can’t Alter the Data: Smoking Among Youth and Young Adults Is Way Down
by Brad Rodu February 8, 2017Smoking 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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Budgets/TaxesPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast [Voices of Vapers] – Mark Block & Linda Hansen: Bringing Vapers Together
by Lindsey Stroud October 11, 2016Lindsey Stroud speaks with Mark Block and Linda Hansen about how the e-cigarette industry can benefit from uniting many vaping advocates.
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FeaturedTobacco
British Study Points to ‘Consensus’ : E-cigarettes Help Smokers Quit
by Lindsey Stroud July 11, 2016Thirteen public health organizations, including Public Health England, Cancer Research UK and the Royal College of Physicians issued a brief in July titled “E-cigarettes: a developing public health consensus.” The…
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Tobacco
Britain: E-Cigarettes Almost Exclusively Used by Smokers and Ex-Smokers
by Brad Rodu November 25, 2014The British government has just released statistics on e-cigarette use (here). The Office for National Statistics reports that e-cigarettes were used by 12% of smokers and 5% of former smokers in the UK during the first quarter of this year, but the rate of use among never smokers was only 0.14%.
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Nicotine can be detected in a chamber after releasing vapor directly from an e-cigarette, according to a report in Nicotine and Tobacco Research (abstract here) by Roswell Park Cancer Institute investigators. A Carl Phillips parody of the abstract (here) convinced me to review the journal article. Clive Bates also published a scathing critique (here).
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For years, advocates for smoke-free alternatives, such as electronic cigarettes and other e-vapor products, have known that these products are effective at helping smokers quit or dramatically reduce their cigarette consumption.
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One of Sunday’s most controversial Super Bowl ads came with the message “Friends don’t let friends smoke.” Bizarrely, it’s organized anti-smokers in the public-health establishment who want the commercial banned.
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FeaturedHealth CareLibertyMediaPolitics
VID: Greg Gutfeld’s EPIC Rant about NYC Ban on E-Cigarettes
by Jim Lakely December 20, 2013Greg Gutfeld is angry, and rightly so, because “vaping” electronic cigarettes is harmless to anyone around them.