vaping
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Budgets/TaxesHealth Care
The Media is Purposefully Misleading You about Vaping
by Chris Talgo October 22, 2019The fake news media and ignorant politicians have shamefully perpetuated a myth that “vaping” is responsible for more than 500 hospitalizations and seven deaths.
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Budgets/TaxesHealth Care
CDC to Spend Millions Combatting E-Cigs after States Link Hospitalizations to THC
by Lindsey Stroud October 22, 2019More and more young Americans are being hospitalized for side effects from so-called “vaping.” Or so the federal government wants you to think.
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Budgets/TaxesTobacco
Politicians Are Scapegoating E-cigs for Harm They Haven’t Done
by Jeff Stier September 18, 2019When there’s an outbreak of deaths or illnesses from injected street drugs, do public health authorities demand diabetics and doctors stop using syringes?
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Budgets/TaxesHealth Care
Americans Can’t do Math, But Policymakers Can and This Could Vaporize Tobacco Harm Reduction
by Lindsey Stroud September 17, 2019It should come as no big surprise that Americans are not the world’s best mathematicians.
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Budgets/TaxesTobacco
Dear Senator Warren, the Revolving Door With Gottlieb Didn’t Start at Pfizer
by Lindsey Stroud August 13, 2019Warren barely scratched the surface on the audacity of unelected and unaccountable executive agency officials who blatantly abuse their positions of power for their own gain.
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Budgets/TaxesTobacco
There is No ‘Epidemic’ of Youth Vaping, Only a Moral Panic
by Sherwin Mena May 17, 2019Should 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.
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Budgets/TaxesTobacco
Why Are Lawmakers More Concerned with Youth Vaping than Opioid Abuse?
by Lindsey Stroud April 10, 2019Why are lawmakers working so feverishly to limit their access to tobacco harm reduction products like e-cigarettes? The hypocrisy is seemingly endless.
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Health Care
Public Health Officials Should Avoid ‘Deeming’ Epidemics, Especially When They’re Ignoring the One They Created
by Lindsey Stroud February 13, 2019Words 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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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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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.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedRegulation
The President’s Promise to Cut FDA Red Tape
by Jeff Stier August 20, 2018Technological advances touch every aspect of our lives, often in ways we rarely think about.
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The agency unveiled a two-pronged approach to reduce smoking.
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Health Care
FDA Should Be Applauded for Finally Enforcing the Law on Illegal E-cig Sales to Youth, But Must Speak Out About Benefits to Smokers
by Jeff Stier April 27, 2018On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration announced the initial results of its nationwide crackdown on retailers selling e-cigarette and vaping products to minors.