It’s been well-established for a long time that tobacco control policies, particularly comprehensive 100% smokefree laws and taxes, are associated with less smoking among youth. Now Brian Kelly and colleagues recently published “Tobacco Policy & ENDS Policy Influences on Adolescent Vaping across U.S. States” have extended this literature to state e-cigarette laws. They linked theContinue reading “More evidence that comprehensive smokefree laws are a good idea: Less youth vaping”
Author Archives: Stanton Glantz
UC publishes oral history of Stanton Glantz: Putting Cardiovascular, Epidemiological, Economic, Political, and Policy Research into Action at UC San Francisco and Beyond
Today the Oral History Center at the University of California Bancroft Library published an oral history of my career, which is freely available to all. Beginning in elementary school in Cleveland, Ohio, the history follows me through college and gradual school. It discusses my work to develop the emergency protocols for the Apollo 5 missionContinue reading “UC publishes oral history of Stanton Glantz: Putting Cardiovascular, Epidemiological, Economic, Political, and Policy Research into Action at UC San Francisco and Beyond”
Federal Judge orders Philip Morris to release documents from Juul litigation. Meanwhile, after more than two years, Juul’s documents under NC settlement have not been made public.
Thanks to the efforts of the public health intervenors led by the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, Judge Paul Friedman has ordered Philip Morris to make 875,000 documents produced in the multi-party litigation against Juul public under the document disclosure provisions of the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization case against the big cigarette companies.Continue reading “Federal Judge orders Philip Morris to release documents from Juul litigation. Meanwhile, after more than two years, Juul’s documents under NC settlement have not been made public.”
England paying pregnant smokers to switch to e-cigs while evidence of damage to developing fetuses grows
At the same time England is paying pregnant smokers to switch from cigarettes to e-cigarettes new research shows that e-cigarette use inhibits lung and skeletal development in developing fetuses just like cigarette smoking does. The British authorities should read Yunus Ozekin and colleagues’ impressive paper “Intrauterine exposure to nicotine through material vaping disrupts embryonic lungContinue reading “England paying pregnant smokers to switch to e-cigs while evidence of damage to developing fetuses grows”
FDA denies myblu menthol e-cig
FDA has denied a marketing order for Fontem’s myblu menthol e-cigarette. This is FDA’s second denial of a marketing order for a menthol e-cigarette, following its denial of RJR’s Vuse Solo menthol and other menthol e-cigarettes. With this decision, FDA continues to move away from its previous permissive policy toward menthol e-cigarettes, which appears toContinue reading “FDA denies myblu menthol e-cig”
Will squirrel vaping wake up pro-ecig British health establishment?
On July 2, 2023, the Daily Star in England published Vaping squirrel stuns woman at park after scurrying up tree to puff in peace, illustrating another victim of the British health establishment’s embrace of e-cigarettes. While they still try and ignore the massive adoption of e-cigs by British kids — accompanied by more cigarette smokingContinue reading “Will squirrel vaping wake up pro-ecig British health establishment?”
Journals retract two papers because authors did not fully disclose tobacco industry funding through Foundation for a Smoke Free World
The recent National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine workshop report Sponsor Influences on the Quality and Independence of Health Research highlighted the problem of industry obscuring its support of research by funneling the money through intermediaries. Two papers that were funded by Philip Morris International’s Foundation for a Smoke Free World have recently beenContinue reading “Journals retract two papers because authors did not fully disclose tobacco industry funding through Foundation for a Smoke Free World”
National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine publishes informative report on how industry biases scientific research and some ways to deal with it
The National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine just published Sponsor Influences on the Quality and Independence of Health Research, which sums up a meeting where experts discussed how scientific studies funded by industry or conducted by an author with a conflict of interest consistently report results more favorable to industry or the sponsor thanContinue reading “National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine publishes informative report on how industry biases scientific research and some ways to deal with it”
More evidence that England’s (and Canada and US FDA) enthusiastic approach to e-cigarettes is a disaster
In April 2023, David Hammond and colleagues published trends in high school use of e-cigarettes, cigarettes and other tobacco products in three e-cigarette-countries with policies to promote adult use of e-cigarettes for harm reduction: England, Canada and the US. In the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (ITC) Youth Tobacco and Vaping Survey England, whichContinue reading “More evidence that England’s (and Canada and US FDA) enthusiastic approach to e-cigarettes is a disaster”
E-cig market shifts to keep growing rapidly as it adapts to loopholes the federal government leaves open
Last week, the CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report published “E-cigarette Unit Sales by Product and Flavor Type, and Top-Selling Brands, United States, 2020–2022” that reported rapid growth in e-cigarette sales: from January, 2020 to December, 2022, e-cigarette sales increased by 46.6%. (These figures are based on checkout bar code scanner data from retailers andContinue reading “E-cig market shifts to keep growing rapidly as it adapts to loopholes the federal government leaves open”
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