vaping

More and more young Americans are being hospitalized for side effects from so-called “vaping.” Or so the federal government wants you to think.

Unless you live under a rock, odds are you’ve seen countless, glaring headlines of American youth being hospitalized “due to vaping.”

It should come as no big surprise that Americans are not the world’s best mathematicians.

When products could save lives, it’s important for people to be informed about those benefits, along with the risks.

Should teenagers vape, text while driving, use marijuana, drink alcohol?  Absolutely not.  Demonizing vapor products only destroys public perception, scares adult smokers from converting, and financially harms small businesses.

On March 4, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a statement the vaping community long assumed to be true: mom-and-pop vape shops are not the major culprits selling kids nicotine and tobacco products.

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.

Tobacco prohibitionists have objected to tobacco flavors for years.

Government agencies populated with scientists people are pleased to call “experts” are often thought to be above the ordinary give-and-take of politics and, especially, immune to the clarion calls of activists and pressure of public opinion.

The ongoing controversy over e-cigarettes and youth smoking has hit a proverbial regulatory wall.

The agency unveiled a two-pronged approach to reduce smoking.

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…

U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb on July 28 fully endorsed tobacco harm reduction.