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We support California’s updated”Unflavored Tobacco List” and suggest some improvements
The California Attorney Genera maintains an official “unflavored tobacco product list” to facilitate implementation and enforcement of the state’s flavored tobacco product ban. The AG proposed “readopting” an undated list. We support that proposal and made a few suggestions for improving it. A PDF is available here. This is an excellent model for other states,…
E-cigarettes increase harm and should be discouraged (new paper)
Pam Ling and I recently published “E-cigarettes increase harm and should be discouraged” in Nature Human Behavior that summarizes the current evidence on e-cigarettes. The Introduction sums up the paper: Ever since they were introduced, arguments that e-cigarettes reduce tobacco harm have hinged on three assumptions: (1) nicotine aerosol from heating a liquid rather than…
FDA should drop its draft guidance to allow some sales of flavored e-cigs because it ignores evidence that harm to youth outweighs theoretical benefits to adults
My colleagues and I just submitted this public comment to FDA opposing its proposal to allow sales of flavored e-cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) on the grounds that benefits to adults would outweigh harms to kids. It also presents evidence that two-way communication between ENDS and external agencies (that could include ENDS…
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