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”
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The RCP got this right: Promotion of tobacco harm reduction is playing right into the tobacco industry’s hands
I previously published three detailed critiques of the 2024 UK Royal College of Physicians report E-cigarettes and Harm Reduction: An Evidence Review for being an incomplete and selective review of the literature in three areas — underestimating the magnitude of disease risk caused by e-cigarettes, ignoring the large body of real world evidence that e-cigarettesContinue reading “The RCP got this right: Promotion of tobacco harm reduction is playing right into the tobacco industry’s hands”
“The Devil’s Playbook” is a great read
My definition of a good book on tobacco is that I learn things I didn’t already know from reading it. Lauren Etter’s new book, The Devil’s Playbook, easily meets and surpasses this standard. Deeply researched beginning with key events in the 1980s, she documents the rise and decline on Juul e-cigarettes and how, at leastContinue reading ““The Devil’s Playbook” is a great read”
Which health care companies treat tobacco diseases — but also buy tobacco stocks?
As You Sow, a Smokefree Movies partner, released a new report on October 28, 2020: Smoke & Mirrors: Healthcare company retirement plans are addicted to tobacco The report uncovers the surprising fact that tobacco firms — and media companies that push tobacco — are embedded in retirement plans at Abbott Laboratories, Becton Dickinson, CVS Health, DaVita, HCAContinue reading “Which health care companies treat tobacco diseases — but also buy tobacco stocks?”
Money talks. Why are top healthcare companies invested in … Tobacco?
As You Sow, one of our partners in the Smokefree Movies project, is releasing a new report, Smoke & Mirrors: Healthcare company retirement plans are addicted to tobacco, on Wednesday Wed, October 28 at 2 pm ET / 11 am PT. The report uncovers the surprising fact that tobacco (and media companies that promote tobacco) is embedded inContinue reading “Money talks. Why are top healthcare companies invested in … Tobacco?”
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