smokeless tobacco
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Health Care
American Cancer Society Sees Zero Cancer Risk for Smokeless Tobacco
by Brad Rodu June 15, 2018Smokeless 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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Health Care
Will the FDA ‘Deeming Rule’ Spell the Demise of the Vaping Industry?
by Nancy Thorner March 28, 2017Will 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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Budgets/TaxesRegulationTobacco
Educating Air Force Generals About Tobacco Use & Risks
by Brad Rodu March 27, 2017The 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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Budgets/TaxesRegulationTobacco
Heavy Snus Use: Possible Link to Type 2 Diabetes
by Brad Rodu March 3, 2017A 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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Budgets/TaxesRegulationTobacco
Nicotine, Smokeless Tobacco & Tourette Syndrome
by Brad Rodu February 23, 2017A 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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Budgets/TaxesTobacco
New WHO/NCI Report Falsely Conflates Smoking & Tobacco
by Brad Rodu February 1, 2017The 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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Budgets/TaxesTobacco
Confirmed: Snus Use Protective for Parkinson’s Disease
by Brad Rodu January 6, 2017Investigators 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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Budgets/TaxesTobacco
Motorcycles Aren’t Cars and Cigarettes Aren’t Smoke-Free Tobacco
by Brad Rodu November 25, 2016What 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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Budgets/TaxesTobacco
Snus Not Associated with Gastroesophageal Reflux, Says Norwegian Study
by Brad Rodu November 23, 2016Norwegian 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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Budgets/TaxesTobacco
Intelligent Regulation of Smokeless Tobacco: Currently an Oxymoron
by Brad Rodu October 14, 2016A 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…