Author Archives: Stanton Glantz

E-cigarettes damage human cancer-related DNA as much as cigarettes

The scientific evidence that e-cigarettes cause cardiovascular and pulmonary disease is more extensive than for cancer, probably because these diseases are manifest faster than cancer, which can take years.  One way to gain insight into the relationship between e-cigarette use and cancer risk is to look for DNA damage that, over the long term, mayContinue reading “E-cigarettes damage human cancer-related DNA as much as cigarettes”

Three new papers detail FDA errors in authorizing Vuse Solo

Last week Tobacco Control published two peer reviewed scientific critiques of FDA’s authorization for RJ Reynolds to sell Vuse Solo e-cigarettes as well as a commentary on the two papers.  Both papers recommend FDA exercise its authority to withdraw authorization to sell Vuse Solo and the commentary because FDA did not demonstrate that marketing VuseContinue reading “Three new papers detail FDA errors in authorizing Vuse Solo”

FDA pushes back date for finishing PMTAs (again)

The convenience store trade publication CSP reported that the FDA has pushed the anticipated date for finishing making decisions on premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs) — mostly e-cigarettes — again, this time to the end of 2023. According to CSP, The Food and Drug Administration is going to need until the end of 2023 toContinue reading “FDA pushes back date for finishing PMTAs (again)”

UCSF Tobacco Center Billion Lives Symposium available for online viewing

As in past years, the symposium is archived and available to watch for free here. This is the program: Keynote Panel: 20 Years of the Industry Documents: Past, Present and Future: Presentations by Faculty and Postdoctoral Scholars: Closing Remarks, Chris Shaffer, MS, UCSF Assistant Vice Chancellor and University Librarian The last several years’ symposia areContinue reading “UCSF Tobacco Center Billion Lives Symposium available for online viewing”

Even a little smoking is bad: Implications for harm reduction

I just came on two important papers — Association of Long-term, Low-Intensity Smoking With All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality in the National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study and Association between long-term low-intensity cigarette smoking and incidence of smoking-related cancer in the National Institutes of Health-AARP cohort by Maki Inoue Choi and her colleagues atContinue reading “Even a little smoking is bad: Implications for harm reduction”

Heated tobacco products associated with COVID infection and severity in Japan; dual use is worse

It is well-established that smoking makes COVID-19 worse once you are infected, but the relationship between smoking and COVID infection is not as clear, due to the fact that most studies have not been based on population representative samples. Instead, most have been of tested people at a time that testing was limited and soContinue reading “Heated tobacco products associated with COVID infection and severity in Japan; dual use is worse”

Fight over rating for horror movie adds to case for R rating movies with smoking

Seeing smoking in movies causes kids to smoke. Since 2001 the Smokefree Movies campaign (now Smokefree Media) has urged an R rating for movies that include smoking or other tobacco use. The logic for this recommendation, which was based on advice we got from people inside the Hollywood community, was to create an economic incentiveContinue reading “Fight over rating for horror movie adds to case for R rating movies with smoking”

RJR non-menthol Newport cigs are “substantially equivalent” to RJR Newport menthol

There are three ways that a tobacco company can get authorization to sell a new tobacco product in the US.  The way that has attracted a lot of attention lately is through a premarket tobacco product application (PMTA); all the e-cigarettes have to go through this process.  There are also two easier processes: submit aContinue reading “RJR non-menthol Newport cigs are “substantially equivalent” to RJR Newport menthol”

Foundation for a Smokefree World looking for CEO … without mentioning that Philip Morris International created and remains the sole funder

A friend recently got this email: The Foundation for a Smokefree World was founded in September 2017. While it advertises itself as independent, it was created with sole funding from the tobacco company Philip Morris International (PMI), which announced expected to continue to fund the Foundation at about $80 million a year for the nextContinue reading “Foundation for a Smokefree World looking for CEO … without mentioning that Philip Morris International created and remains the sole funder”