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Secondhand smoke pioneer Jim Repace died in April 2026
I only recently learned that Jim Repace, who laid the scientific foundation establishing that secondhand tobacco smoke exposure was widespread and serious starting in the 1970s and published the first estimate of the number of lung cancer deaths secondhand smoke caused in 1985. He played a crucial role in the development of the EPA’s landmark…
Pediatrics publishes 2025 NYTS results that highlight problems with FDA’s permissive policy toward e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches
Pediatrics just published the final version of my paper “Tobacco Use Among Middle and High School Students: 2025 National Youth Tobacco Survey.” They key observations are: Overall youth tobacco use is continuing to decline The two most commonly used products are e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches The decline in overall tobacco use is manifest across all…
UCSF Makes Internal Firearm Industry Documents Public
In 1994 when I worked with the UCSF Library to put the original collection of about 10,000 pages of internal documents from the Brown and Williamson Tobacco company on the internet, I had no idea that the project would grow not only to the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents Library that contains 20 million tobacco industry…
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