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Health CarePublic Health Officials Should Avoid ‘Deeming’ Epidemics, Especially When They’re Ignoring the One They Created
Words matter. For example, when the head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decries an “epidemic,” the media and state policymakers pay attention.
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Tobacco prohibitionists have objected to tobacco flavors for years.
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ACS 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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In July, an NPR segment reported the United States is in the midst of a “significant shortage of injectable opioids.”
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedTobaccoSan Francisco’s Proposed Flavor Ban is a Disservice to Tobacco Harm Reduction
On 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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FDA’s regulation of electronic cigarettes and vaping devices underscore the agency’s unwillingness to promote, or even acknowledge, tobacco harm reduction (THR) products.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedRegulationTobacco
With Latest Announcement, FDA Inches Closer to Tobacco Harm Reduction
On Friday, July 28 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced changes in their regulation of tobacco products, including electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS). FDA ascribed their Center for Tobacco…
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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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This is a tale of two tobacco users and the very different medical advice they received. In 2005, two physicians and a dentist published a report in the American Journal…
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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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Budgets/TaxesRegulationTobaccoNew Survey Shows that Most Physicians are Completely Misguided on E-Cigarette Recommendations; Anti-Tobacco Groups’ Propaganda is Wreaking Havoc on the Public’s Health
A paper published in the current issue of the Annals of the American Thoracic Society reports the results of a survey regarding physician recommendations to their patients about the use…
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In an article published earlier this month in JAMA Pediatrics, the Surgeon General claimed that electronic cigarettes: “are now the most commonly used form of tobacco among youth in the…
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Budgets/TaxesRegulationTobaccoStudy titled “Benzene formation in e-cigarettes” Found that Air has more Benzene than E-cigs
A study was recently published in the journal PLoS One, titled: “Benzene formation in e-cigarettes”. In what should be considered very fashionable in e-cigarette research, it was accompanied by a…
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