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24Quite SmokingPremium Cigars Threatened by Pending FDA Regulations, with Negligible Public Health Benefit
Chairman Marco Rubio convened a field hearing of the Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship on April 5 in Tampa, Florida. ...
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26Quite SmokingFDA Holds IQOS Heat-Not-Burn Hostage, As Market Forces & Smoke-Free Products Slash Japan Cigarette Sales
The media has been silent about an unprecedented decline in cigarette consumption. Japan Tobacco International reports (here) that cigarette sales in Japan...
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30Quite SmokingFDA Approves PMI’s IQOS Heat-Not-Burn Tobacco For U.S. Sales
Today the FDA approved Philip Morris International’s heat-not-burn tobacco system for sale in the U.S., saying in an agency press release: “Following...
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26Quite SmokingBroad Tobacco-Related Insurance Premiums Are Unjustified & Injurious
I recently received this email: “I am a 29 year old male from Upper Michigan, married with 3 kids. My wife and I...
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27Quite SmokingThe California Crusade Against Tobacco Flavors: From Foolish to Dangerous
Today the California Globe published my oped on the foolish and dangerous legislative effort to ban flavored tobacco products. Read it here...
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25Quite SmokingCDC Quit-Smoking Ads Lack Real-World Solutions
People regularly ask me why I’ve spent the last 25 years researching and advocating for tobacco harm reduction and related products. While...
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Pennsylvania Department of Health Urges Parents to Lie to their Kids About the Dangers of E-Cigarettes
A basic principle of public health ethics is that we don’t lie to people. Telling the truth is a critical component of...
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Switching from Smoking to Juul Reduces Toxic Chemical Biomarkers to the Same Degree as Quitting Cold Turkey
According to a study conducted by Juul and presented Saturday at the Big-Pharma funded SRNT annual meeting, there is no difference between...
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11 Million Lies: The Tobacco Control Movement is Committing Public Health Malpractice by Misrepresenting the Health Effects of Vaping
My colleagues and I in the tobacco control movement have based our entire careers on the principle that it is wrong to...
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26Quite SmokingWhy This Elephant in India Is Blowing Smoke
It’s not unheard of for animals to learn to smoke—there’s a chimp at a North Korean zoo famous for lighting up and...
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Purported Links Between Vaping and Heart Attacks are Based on Crappy Science
Another crappy study has come along, this one again using cross-sectional data from the National Health Interview Survey to claim that e-cigarette...
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San Francisco Considering Banning Electronic Cigarettes, But Letting Deadly Real Cigarettes Stay on the Shelves
Yesterday, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera and Supervisor Shamann Walton announced that they are introducing an ordinance to the Board of...
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26Quite SmokingSmokers Eat Smaller Portions of Food but Have Far Worse Diets
Smokers have worse quality diets than former smokers or non-smokers despite eating significantly smaller portions of food, according to a new study....
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Response to Press Release Announcing Proposed Ban on Electronic Cigarettes in San Francisco
Here is my point-by-point response to several of the statements made in the press release issued by City Attorney Herrera announcing the...
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Public Misunderstanding of Health Risks is "a Good Thing" According to Some in the Tobacco Control Movement
Somewhere along the line, I must have gone astray. During my master’s in public health program, I was taught that one major...
