smoking
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Health Care
Smokeless Tobacco Can Save Lives, But Only if Smokers Have All the Facts
by Jeff Stier February 4, 2019When products have the potential to save millions of lives, it’s helpful if people are told about those benefits.
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Health Care
FDA Is Celebrating the Great American Smokeout with a Great Unnecessary Vapeout
by Lindsey Stroud November 15, 2018ACS and many other public health groups fail to acknowledge how successful this year’s Smokeout will be due to the popularity of electronic cigarettes and vaping devices.
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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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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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Some published articles are so flawed that they deserve retraction.
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FeaturedRegulationTobacco
FDA Creates Cigarette Confusion – Calls for Science to Back up Policy
by Jeff Stier March 17, 2018The FDA recently announced a plan to move forward to develop a regulation that would mandate a reduction in nicotine in combustible cigarettes to a very low level. The FDA justified the move by stating that such a mandate could help current smokers quit, and prevent experimental users from becoming regular smokers.
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedHealth CareLibertyPodcastTaxes
In The Tank (ep130) – Daylight Savings Time, Medicaid Waiting Lists, Horse Masseuse
by Donald Kendal March 9, 2018John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #130 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Reason Foundation, the Cato Institute, The Foundation for Government Accountability, the Platte Institute, and the Heartland Institute.
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The Trump administration should no longer defend FDA’s indefensible vaping ban.
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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/TaxesTobacco
Sacramento Bee Errs Twice with Fake News on E-Cigarettes
by Brad Rodu December 28, 2016The Sacramento Bee on January 21 published a column written by a hearing aids company executive. Titled “E-cigarettes may also cause hearing loss” (here), the piece asserted that “damage to…
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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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Health CareTobacco
Global Cigarette Smuggling Is So Profitable – The UN Is Getting In On It
by Seton Motley September 17, 2016Governments everywhere decades ago launched the War on Tobacco. Which they tell us is to protect us from ourselves. What it really is about – is more government control, and more government tax money.