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Smokeless tobacco was not among 17 risk factors – a tacit acknowledgment that the risk of cancer from smokeless tobacco is de minimis.
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb on July 28 fully endorsed tobacco harm reduction.
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Will the Deeming Rule kill the vaping industry? Dr. Brad Rodu talks from the Heartland about the future of the industry and what the FDA has in store.
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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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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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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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Investigators in Sweden, Italy and the United States report that “non-smoking men who used snus had a substantially reduced risk of Parkinson’s disease…” The research, published in the International Journal…
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What if the federal government told you that cars are as dangerous as motorcycles? Well, you would be living – and dying – in TobaccoWorld. Read my commentary that appeared…
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Norwegian researchers report that snus users had lower risks for gastroesophageal reflux symptoms (GERS) than never users (abstract here). This builds on Swedish findings of six years ago that snus…
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Eradication of all tobacco products could only be justified if all such products posed substantial risk to public health. They do not.
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A commentary on “the political, social, genetic, and neuroscientific challenges in continuing an abstinence-only approach to nicotine use” was recently published by University of Ottawa Faculty of Law Adjunct Professsor…
