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New national data shows kids using “ice” tobacco products; FDA needs to...
Last week the CDC and FDA published the 2023 statistics on youth tobacco use from the National Youth Tobacco Survey (FDA press release). The good news is that high school student overall tobacco use...
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Astonishing: Health Canada makes it legal for flavoured nicotine products...
The Health Ministry in Canada, which used to be a leader in tobacco control, has completely embraced the tobacco companies’ “harm reduction” agenda. It’s time for Prime Minister Trudeau to order them...
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High tobacco industry influence increased in US in 2023, often working...
Last month Action on Smoking and Health released its 2023 US Tobacco Industry Interference Index, the latest in a series of reports that assesses tobacco industry interference in US policy making...
View ArticleThe evidence that tobacco industry-affiliated studies are more likely to...
There is already strong evidence that studies funded by the tobacco industry (and other industries) are more likely to support industry positions on e-cigarettes and harm reduction. A new study from...
View ArticleBiden follows Obama and Trump by caving to industry pressure to delay menthol...
Last week the Biden White House announced it was delaying a decision on the FDA’s well-reasoned product standards that would end the use of menthol in cigarettes and cigars, sparking outrage from...
View ArticleWHO issues important call to action on ecigs
The World Health Organization has released a call to action and supporting technical note that provides detailed guidance for countries on how to battle the e-cigarette epidemic. The WHO both supports...
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Read Times (London) insightful articles detailing tobacco companies’ hidden...
Time of London investigative reporter Billy Kneber published four excellent articles documenting how major tobacco companies have been manipulating England to promote and protect e-cigarettes. While ,...
View ArticleFirst 280,000 Juul documents publicly available, millions more to come
One of the key provisions of North Carolina’s 2021 settlement with Juul was that the documents produced in litigation would be made available to the public. The settlement required that the documents...
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COP10 delegates need to base decisions on latest e-cig evidence, not the same...
In the lead up to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Tenth Conference of the Parties that starts today, advocates for e-cigarettes and other “reduced harm” tobacco products have been busy...
View ArticleRelevant to COP10: Pharmaceuticalisation as the tobacco industry’s endgame
Yogi Hendlin, Eileen Han and Pam Ling’s new paper Pharmaceuticalisation as the tobacco industry’s endgame provides a detailed analysis of how the multinational tobacco companies have developed and...
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Banning menthol leads a quarter of menthol smokers to quit
The two justifications for the FDA’s proposed product standard prohibiting menthol cigarettes and cigars are (1) it will reduce youth initiation, and (2) it will help menthol smokers to quit. Now...
View ArticleJuul’s internal playbook opens a rare window into influence in Washington
Nicholas Florko at StatNews just published an excellent piece using the newly-released Juul internal documents to describe how the company worked behind the scenes in Washington all the way down to...
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Contrary to public position, Juul founders wanted to attract former and...
Juul co-founders Adam Monsees and James Bowen portray themselves as idealistic entrepreneurs committed to improving the health of billions of adult smokers with no intent to sell nicotine to...
View ArticleOver 1 million previously secret Juul documents now available, with more to come
The UCSF Industry Documents Library released another 519,000 new Juul Labs documents, bringing the total number of documents to 1,053,233. This is about one-quarter of the complete collection of more...
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Read the behind scenes story of the 1964 Surgeon General Report on Smoking...
The 1964 Report on Smoking and Health represented a turning point in the history of tobacco in the United States and the world. Now Don Shopland [photo above], who at the time was an eighteen...
View ArticleHeated tobacco products damage human lung function as much as cigarettes
Philip Morris has aggressively promoted its heated tobacco product (HTP) IQOS all over the world as a safer alternative to smoking cigarettes based on the fact that IQOS delivers lower levels of some...
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