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Some Thai e-cig use despite ban on imports and sales
Roengrudee Patanavanich, her Thai colleagues, and I just published “Patterns of e-cigarette use by sex and age in Thailand: The National Health Examination Survey 2024–2025” that provides detailed statistics on cigarette and e-cigarette use in Thailand, a country that does not allow import and sale of e-cigarettes. We found current e-cigarette use among 5.3% of…
2025 NYTS highlights problems with FDA’s permissive policy toward e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches
In April 2025, as part of its attack on the federal government’s tobacco control efforts, the Trump Administration pulled the plug on data collection for the 2025 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS), a large national survey of middle and high school tobacco use the CDC — later joined by the FDA — had been running…
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…
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