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Comprehensive smoke-free laws reduce cardiovascular deaths
In 2004, when Richard Sargent, Robert Shepard and I published “Reduced incidence of admissions for myocardial infarction associated with public smoking ban: before and after study” reporting that hospital admissions for heart attacks dropped when Helena, Montana passed its smoke-free law, it was controversial. Since then, many studies have confirmed and expanded this conclusion (Institute…
Useful guide to searching Juul documents now available
The UCSF Industry Documents Library has released a very useful new Juul Labs Collection Content Guide on the IDL website that provides a wealth of information and links to key documents to help people get started in searching the Juul documents. It is specifically built around the Multistate Juul Labs Collection, which includes materials disclosed through…
Switching from cigs to ecigs does not significantly reduce lung cancer risk
Yeon Wook Kim and colleagues’ new paper “Electronic cigarette use after smokingcessation and lung cancer risk” shows that smokers who switch to e-cigarettes have about a 50% higher risk of developing lung cancer and about a doubling of risk of dying from lung cancer than smokers who just stop smoking. Most important, this paper is…
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