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New York City: Where You Can Get Cigarettes at Every Corner Store But There's...
The New York City Council yesterday passed a law that bans the sale of all e-cigarettes, with the sole exception of tobacco-flavored ones, but allows cigarettes - including menthol-flavored brands - to...
View ArticleMassachusetts State Health Department is Completely Irresponsible in Hiding...
The Department of Public Health's Silence is Putting the Lives of the State's Youth at Risk I was startled this morning to read what the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) is currently...
View ArticleAmerican Lung Association's Lies About E-Cigarettes are Dangerous and...
Earlier this week, I revealed that, ironically, in a campaign attacking e-cigarette companies for lying to the public, the American Heart Association was itself lying to the public by asserting that...
View ArticleOutbreak of Salmonella Poisoning from Contaminated Vegetables in...
Despite an outbreak of vegetable-associated Salmonella poisoning linked to products sold at Massachusetts restaurants that has affected 90 Massachusetts residents and resulted in three deaths, the...
View ArticleThe Height of Irresponsibility: Massachusetts Department of Public Health...
Yesterday, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) proclaimed to residents of the Commonwealth that it has no idea what is causing the outbreak of respiratory illness that has affected more...
View ArticleMassachusetts DPH Destroys Its Own Justification for the Emergency...
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH), via a vote by the Public Health Council, has rescinded its emergency ban on the sale of electronic cigarettes which was issued on September 25. When...
View ArticleMassachusetts DPH Admits that Rescinding the E-Cigarette Sales Ban "Will...
In court filings--both in state and federal court--the Massachusetts Department of Public Health strongly argued that allowing e-cigarettes to be sold in the Commonwealth, as it did by rescinding the...
View ArticleVapers Beware: New Study Does NOT Show that E-Cigarettes Cause Chronic Lung...
A new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine purports to show that the use of e-cigarettes causes long-term lung damage. The study found that adults who used e-cigarettes at...
View ArticleFlavored E-Cigarette Bans are a Sure Way to Increase Youth Cigarette...
Sometimes the most important evidence in a public health debate come from the most important informants: the people who are actually affected by public health policy and who know what is happening on...
View ArticleMassachusetts Department of Public Health Issues Emergency Order Banning the...
In response to an outbreak of multi-drug resistant Campylobacter infections associated with the purchase of puppies from pet stores, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health has issued a...
View ArticleNewest CDC Data Confirm that Respiratory Disease Outbreak was Caused by...
The CDC has released new data which almost definitively confirm that the respiratory disease outbreak was caused by vitamin E acetate oil in THC vaping products (and perhaps some CBD vaping products as...
View ArticleAmerican Academy of Family Physicians Bemoans Fact that Many People Correctly...
The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has released the results of a survey it commissioned to examine public attitudes regarding what CDC has incorrectly called the EVALI (e-cigarette, or...
View ArticleVape Shops Saved for Now: Dodged One Bullet, But Now Must Dodge Another One
I am expecting the FDA to announce this afternoon that it plans to enforce a ban on the sale of all flavored e-cigarette pods and cartridges for closed vaping systems, with the exception of tobacco and...
View ArticleTobacco Researcher Claims that Smoking May Be Safer than E-Cigarettes
Imagine if a tobacco company came out today and publicly claimed that smoking might very well be safer than using an e-cigarette. It would be a completely irresponsible statement and the company would...
View ArticleCDC is Concealing and Suppressing Information on Youth Marijuana Vaping to...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is concealing and suppressing information on the number one cause of severe, vaping-related health harm to youths in order to deceive the public...
View ArticleNew Study Finds that Switching from Smoking to Vaping Reduces Heart Disease...
A new study published just days ago in the journal Circulation reported that adults who exclusively use electronic cigarettes experience a 34% reduction in their risk of heart disease. (See: Berlowitz...
View ArticleISFAR Criticizes New Alcohol Guidance Issued by Canadian Centre on Substance...
Earlier this year, the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction released a new guidance on alcohol use. The guidance was notable for concluding that there is a dose-response relationship between...
View ArticleIdaho Public Television and State Health Officials Lie to the Public by...
In a public education campaign entitled "Do You Know Vape?" Idaho Public Television in collaboration with the state health districts is informing the public that: "Vaping is not safer than cigarette...
View ArticleAmerican Heart Association Still Refuses to Tell the Truth About EVALI and...
In an American Heart Association (AHA) "scientific statement"published this week in the journal Circulation, the AHA continues to confuse the public about the so-called EVALI (e-cigarette or...
View ArticleMedical Journal Retracts Vaping Study for Political, Rather than Scientific...
The journal BMC Public Health has announced that it will be retracting a paper it published last October which concluded that the use of electronic cigarettes has helped accelerate the decline in...
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