Su Golder and colleagues paper “Vaping and harm in young people: umbrella review” sums up the large existing literature on e-cigarettes’ effects on youth, defined as people under 25. In contrast to systematic reviews which find and draw conclusions based on summing up individual studies, this umbrella review is finds and sums up all theContinue reading “The evidence for the ecig gateway to smoking keeps piling up; ecig advocates continue to nitpick”
Author Archives: Stanton Glantz
Our public comment supporting creation of Calif Unflavored Tobacco List with some suggestions for improvements
I previously suggested people provide public comments supporting the California Attorney General’s procedures to create an Unflavored Tobacco Products List to facilitate implementation and enforcement of California’s flavored tobacco product ban and indicated our preliminary ideas. You can read all 24 comments that were submitted here. All support continuing the survey; about half the commentsContinue reading “Our public comment supporting creation of Calif Unflavored Tobacco List with some suggestions for improvements”
UCSF launches new improved Industry Documents Library
Today the UCSF Industry Documents Library launched a complete redesign of the website that aligns with evolving institutional and user research needs and delivers a new and improved user experience. What’s new? Save the date – On Tuesday, September 9, 1:30 p.m. ET/10:30 a.m. PT UCSF is hosting a live website open house and Q&AContinue reading “UCSF launches new improved Industry Documents Library”
E-cigs and mental health: The arrow goes both ways
When we did our meta-analysis of the association between e-cigarette use and actual disease, we excluded mental illness because of concern that the association went in both directions, i.e., people with mental illness might be more lively to use e-cigs to self medicate with nicotine and people who used e-cigarettes (which delivered) nicotine would beContinue reading “E-cigs and mental health: The arrow goes both ways”
Clinical Oncology Society of Australia concludes “E-cigarettes are likely to cause lung cancer and oral cancer”
The Clinical Oncology Society of Australia recently released its report E-cigarettes and Cancer: A Qualitative Risk Assessment that provides a comprehensive summary of a broad range of evidence on e-cigarettes as a cause of cancer. They focused on the risks of e-cigarettes compared to not using e-cigarettes rather than comparing them to cigarettes (although theyContinue reading “Clinical Oncology Society of Australia concludes “E-cigarettes are likely to cause lung cancer and oral cancer””
Despite Friday deadline, CDC is making it hard to request materials
In response to my blog post notifying people that CDC was closing its Publication Warehouse on Friday August 15, a couple people emailed me saying that the CDC only allowed them to order one or two publications (image above) and told people to “check back tomorrow” because of “high demand for materials.” Given the highContinue reading “Despite Friday deadline, CDC is making it hard to request materials”
Order free CDC Office on Smoking and Health publications by Friday Aug 15. After that they will be destroyed.
As part of its campaign to keep the public in the dark, the Trump Administration is closing the CDC Publication Warehouse on Friday August 15. You can still order these Office on Smoking and Health publications for free until then. You can order multiple copies if you want. Items not ordered by Friday will beContinue reading “Order free CDC Office on Smoking and Health publications by Friday Aug 15. After that they will be destroyed.”
Calif AG releases rules for creating “Unflavored Tobacco List” for quick public comment
Despite years of vigorous opposition from the tobacco companies, in 2022 California’s law prohibiting the sale of flavored tobacco products went into effect. RJR Reynolds (maker of the leading menthol band, Newport), immediately responded by starting to market “non-menthol” cigarettes with virtually the same packaging as the menthol version in California, claiming that these productsContinue reading “Calif AG releases rules for creating “Unflavored Tobacco List” for quick public comment”
Support CDC plan to reinstate NYTS by Aug 15 deadline to submit supportive public comments
In April 2025, the Trump Administration pulled the plug on the National Youth Tobacco Survey in the middle of collecting the 2025 sample, essentially blinding the federal government and the public from important detailed information on youth tobacco use. Now, they are proposing to reinstate it. If implemented properly, this is an important decision. ItContinue reading “Support CDC plan to reinstate NYTS by Aug 15 deadline to submit supportive public comments”
FDA ignores current science to give Juul a pass
Not surprisingly, on July 17, 2025, FDA authorized the sale of Juul tobacco and menthol e-cigarettes. I wish I could say that I am “not surprised” because during the 2024 campaign President Trump announced that he would “save vaping,” but, on reading FDA’s scientific justification (the Technical Product Lead report [TPL]), I found that theContinue reading “FDA ignores current science to give Juul a pass”
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