Chairman Marco Rubio convened a field hearing of the Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship on April 5 in Tampa, Florida. ...
The media has been silent about an unprecedented decline in cigarette consumption. Japan Tobacco International reports (here) that cigarette sales in Japan...
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...
I recently received this email: “I am a 29 year old male from Upper Michigan, married with 3 kids. My wife and I...
Today the California Globe published my oped on the foolish and dangerous legislative effort to ban flavored tobacco products. Read it here...
People regularly ask me why I’ve spent the last 25 years researching and advocating for tobacco harm reduction and related products. While...
A basic principle of public health ethics is that we don’t lie to people. Telling the truth is a critical component of...
According to a study conducted by Juul and presented Saturday at the Big-Pharma funded SRNT annual meeting, there is no difference between...
My colleagues and I in the tobacco control movement have based our entire careers on the principle that it is wrong to...
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...
Another crappy study has come along, this one again using cross-sectional data from the National Health Interview Survey to claim that e-cigarette...
Yesterday, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera and Supervisor Shamann Walton announced that they are introducing an ordinance to the Board of...
Smokers have worse quality diets than former smokers or non-smokers despite eating significantly smaller portions of food, according to a new study....
Here is my point-by-point response to several of the statements made in the press release issued by City Attorney Herrera announcing the...
Somewhere along the line, I must have gone astray. During my master’s in public health program, I was taught that one major...