e-cigarettes
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Budgets/TaxesHealth Care
The Media is Purposefully Misleading You about Vaping
by Chris Talgo October 22, 2019The fake news media and ignorant politicians have shamefully perpetuated a myth that “vaping” is responsible for more than 500 hospitalizations and seven deaths.
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Budgets/TaxesHealth Care
CDC to Spend Millions Combatting E-Cigs after States Link Hospitalizations to THC
by Lindsey Stroud October 22, 2019More and more young Americans are being hospitalized for side effects from so-called “vaping.” Or so the federal government wants you to think.
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Budgets/TaxesTobacco
Politicians Are Scapegoating E-cigs for Harm They Haven’t Done
by Jeff Stier September 18, 2019When there’s an outbreak of deaths or illnesses from injected street drugs, do public health authorities demand diabetics and doctors stop using syringes?
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Budgets/TaxesHealth Care
Americans Can’t do Math, But Policymakers Can and This Could Vaporize Tobacco Harm Reduction
by Lindsey Stroud September 17, 2019It should come as no big surprise that Americans are not the world’s best mathematicians.
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Budgets/TaxesTobacco
There is No ‘Epidemic’ of Youth Vaping, Only a Moral Panic
by Sherwin Mena May 17, 2019Should teenagers vape, text while driving, use marijuana, drink alcohol? Absolutely not. Demonizing vapor products only destroys public perception, scares adult smokers from converting, and financially harms small businesses.
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Budgets/TaxesGovernmentTobacco
How Government E-Cigarette Restrictions Are Increasing Youth Tobacco Use
by Lindsey Stroud April 11, 2019Across 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.
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Tobacco prohibitionists have objected to tobacco flavors for years.
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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.
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Health Care
FDA Claims There’s Market Freedom While Blocking Tobacco Harm Reduction Products
by Lindsey Stroud August 29, 2018In July, an NPR segment reported the United States is in the midst of a “significant shortage of injectable opioids.”
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The agency unveiled a two-pronged approach to reduce smoking.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedTobacco
San Francisco’s Proposed Flavor Ban is a Disservice to Tobacco Harm Reduction
by Lindsey Stroud June 4, 2018On June 5, voters in San Francisco will vote whether the city should ban flavors, including menthol, in tobacco and vaping products. Proposition E comes a year after the San…
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Health Care
UC San Francisco Authors Inadvertently Validate Our Call for Retraction
by Brad Rodu April 6, 2018The Chafee article must be retracted.
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Health Care
Health Departments Lobbying Against E-Cigs Are Robbing Taxpayers, Harming Public Health
by Lindsey Stroud June 5, 2017As if the Food and Drug Administration’s deeming regulations weren’t enough to stall the future of the vaping industry, numerous county health departments have decided to lodge themselves in the war against electronic cigarettes.