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Heartland Daily Podcast – Lindsay Boyd: Right to Try
Right to Try expands treatment options and would give Americans access to many drugs that have already been approved in Europe and elsewhere.
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Economics · Government · Tobacco
Will Gov. Snyder Drop The Ball on E-cigs?
The Michigan Legislature got it right last year, passing bills to ban the sale of e-cigarettes to minors. Only a handful of states haven’t gotten around to this sensible, limited form of e-cigarette regulations.
Under pressure from activist groups who oppose this approach, Gov. Rick Snyder hasn’t signed the bill, and may veto or pocket veto it in the next week.
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Federal Survey Data on Tobacco: It’s Not About The Children
Rates of smoking and use of other tobacco products among teens are so low that they no longer provide a valid basis for the draconian anti-tobacco policy prescriptions favored by the FDA and CDC.
Featured · Regulation · Tobacco
Calling for a Different Approach to Tobacco and Nicotine Regulation
Cigarette smoking is the most harmful form of tobacco use. Alternatives to smoking that supply users with, yes, addictive, but not particularly harmful nicotine, are significantly less dangerous.
Featured · Regulation · Tobacco
Heartland Institute E-Cigarette Experts Submit Comments to Food and Drug Administration
The FDA’s proposed regulation would decimate the small businesses that make up America’s independent e-cigarette industry and remove a powerful tool smokers are using to kick the habit.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Regulation
Jackson County, Oregon Bans GMOs
For years we argued that the farming community should respect OUR right to be organic. Now we’ve switched to denying our neighbors THEIR rights. And that goes against everything it has ever meant to be organic.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Regulation
VIDEO: The Organic Food Certification Racket
Mischa Popoff is one of the most formidable opponents of the organic food movement, as this video of his speech to the Far West Agribusiness Association clearly shows. The simple fact that he is carrying to the masses is that the organic industry, particularly the organic certification industry, is a big racket.
Senator Charles Schumer Calls for Ban on Chemical Used in Bread that Obama’s FDA Says is Safe as Used
Subway’s move came as a result from pressure from Vani Hari, a blogger who calls herself “The Food Babe.”
Bloomberg’s E-cig Ban Likely to do More Harm Than Good
Mayor Bloomberg’s going out with one last ban. The City Council, with the administration’s strong backing, is rushing through a law to treat the vapor from e-cigarettes like tobacco smoke under the city’s “Smoke-Free Air Act.” The use of e-cigs, a k a “vaping,” would be forbidden in indoor and outdoor locations wherever smoking is banned.
Featured · Liberty · Regulation
The EU, US Approaches to Endocrine Disruptors Have Been Appropriate Until Now
When it comes to food safety, the European Union and the United States have some of the most effective scientific and regulatory programs in the world. So it came as[…]
Environment/Energy · Featured · Media · Taxes
Organic Crops Are Tested For Pathogens, Right? Nope
Otherwise, what exactly is Vilsack doing with the tax dollars his department receives to regulate the organic sector?
Obama’s Climate Obsession
Yes, the United States of America is being run by a man who believes that transferring $25 from every man, woman, and child in America to third world countries in the name of “climate assistance” is progress — and is just the beginning.
Environment/Energy · Regulation · Science
WSJ: No Ill Effect Found in Human BPA Exposure
Bisphenol A, known as BPA, has been the target of environmentalist concern for many years. But just like DDT, atrazine, and even dioxin, this much-studied chemical has never been found to[…]
Smoke-free Option Is One Oklahoma Should Consider to Reduce Tobacco Harm
[First published Sept. 30 in The Oklahoman.] A quit-smoking strategy with “the potential to save millions of lives” will be the subject of an Oklahoma legislative hearing Wednesday. At issue[…]
Dietary Supplement Industry Threatened By Anti-Consumer Legislation
United States Senator Dick Durbin has introduced legislation that could essentially slaughter the entire dietary supplement industry. Durbin presented S. 1310, “The Dietary Supplement Labeling Act,” under the pretenses of[…]
Economics · Legal Affairs · Liberty · Media · Politics · Regulation
The Tobacco Industry and the Regulatory Excesses of the FDA
With the deluge of negative media coverage that has surrounded the tobacco industry for the last several decades, anyone exposed to tobacco advertising has undoubtedly seen the ubiquitous black warning[…]
CDC’s Upcoming Vaccine Decision Has Big Implications
Vaccination has been found to be one of the most cost-effective health-care choices. Historically, if a vaccination was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease[…]
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