Keeping menthol in cigarettes (and other tobacco products) has been a priority for the tobacco companies ever since they got it exempted from the characterizing flavor ban in the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act that gave the FDA jurisdiction over tobacco products. The already-strong case for banning menthol just got stronger withContinue reading “More details on how menthol helps Big Tobacco keep kids hooked”
Author Archives: Stanton Glantz
More direct evidence that SF flavor ban worked
Last year we published a paper on implementation of San Francisco’s ban on the sale of flavored tobacco products (including menthol) that reported that health department inspectors found high compliance with the flavor ban when they visited retailers. Now, Doris Gammon and colleagues have shown that the law virtually eliminated sales of flavored tobacco productsContinue reading “More direct evidence that SF flavor ban worked”
Amazon’s purchase of MGM is a good time to catch up with the major studios’ tobacco policies
Amazon is buying MGM for $8.45 billion to get its inventory of popular films and TV shows. It also plans to have MGM continue to produce new films aimed at a broad audience. In contrast to MGM (and Amazon), all the major studios that produce feature films have adopted policies to reduce or eliminate smokingContinue reading “Amazon’s purchase of MGM is a good time to catch up with the major studios’ tobacco policies”
Disney’s Cruella is smokefree
Cruella is the origin story of the villain in Disney’s 1961 animated classic One Hundred One Dalmatians. In it Cruella famously smokes using a long cigarette holder. (So does Glen Close in the 1996 and 2000 live action versions and the TV series.) But, consistent with Disney’s policy to “actively limit the depiction of smokingContinue reading “Disney’s Cruella is smokefree”
We know a lot about how e-cigarettes cause disease
The evidence on the health effects of e-cigarettes was the subject of two recently published reviews that focus on cardiovascular, pulmonary and immunologic effects of e-cigarettes. These reviews complement earlier reviews on the pulmonary effects of e-cigarettes, e-cigarettes and smoking cessation, and the gateway effect for smoking among youth and young adults. Taken together theseContinue reading “We know a lot about how e-cigarettes cause disease”
Growing international consensus (except UK) on dangers of e-cigs
Recently, Cynthia Callard of Physicians for a Smokefree Canada posted a blog commenting on three reports on vaping issued last week by the European Union, the WHO and the UK Royal College of Physicians. The EU and WHO reports reflect in part a growing consensus that: There are harms from e-cigarettes, especially harms to theContinue reading “Growing international consensus (except UK) on dangers of e-cigs”
What we can and cannot say about the immediate effect of SF’s flavored tobacco product ban
NOTE: This blog post was written before it came to light that the San Francisco data in the Friedman study was all collected before the flavor ban was being enforced. Without data after enforcement started, Friedman’s paper falls apart. Please read the recent blog post detailed why this is the case. On May 24, 2021Continue reading “What we can and cannot say about the immediate effect of SF’s flavored tobacco product ban”
Can you believe the papers in the AJHB issue Juul financed?
When I wrote “Surprise! Juul publishes a paper concluding that e-cigs save lives” criticizing a paper in American Journal of Health Behavior for being based on questionable risk estimates, my first draft said I was surprised that the paper got past independent peer reviewers. But then I realized that all but one of the 13 papersContinue reading “Can you believe the papers in the AJHB issue Juul financed?”
Smokefree Movies is now Smokefree Media
Recognizing the growing importance of streaming and other video platforms, the Smokefree Movies campaign I started in 2001 has been expanded to Smokefree Media, including a new website. The new site contains all the information from the old Smokefree Movies site, but the searchable film database has been expanded to add streaming video programs popularContinue reading “Smokefree Movies is now Smokefree Media”
CDC’s new mask guidance and why FDA CTP should not assume e-cigs help smokers quit in the real world
On May 13, 2021 the CDC lifted most restrictions on the use of masks for people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (two weeks after the second shot for Pfizer or Moderna and 1 week after J&J). While some people thought this was a political decision, CDC Director Walensky explained in detail that real world experience showedContinue reading “CDC’s new mask guidance and why FDA CTP should not assume e-cigs help smokers quit in the real world”
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