e-cigarettes

More and more young Americans are being hospitalized for side effects from so-called “vaping.” Or so the federal government wants you to think.

Unless you live under a rock, odds are you’ve seen countless, glaring headlines of American youth being hospitalized “due to vaping.”

It should come as no big surprise that Americans are not the world’s best mathematicians.

When products could save lives, it’s important for people to be informed about those benefits, along with the risks.

Across 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.

Why are lawmakers working so feverishly to limit their access to tobacco harm reduction products like e-cigarettes? The hypocrisy is seemingly endless.

Government agencies populated with scientists people are pleased to call “experts” are often thought to be above the ordinary give-and-take of politics and, especially, immune to the clarion calls of activists and pressure of public opinion.

The ongoing controversy over e-cigarettes and youth smoking has hit a proverbial regulatory wall.

The agency unveiled a two-pronged approach to reduce smoking.

Smokeless tobacco was not among 17 risk factors – a tacit acknowledgment that the risk of cancer from smokeless tobacco is de minimis.  

The Chafee article must be retracted.

Some published articles are so flawed that they deserve retraction.   

The Trump administration should no longer defend FDA’s indefensible vaping ban.