Jim Repace, who did the first quantitative risk assessment of secondhand smoke and lung cancer way back in 1980 and helped launch the clean indoor air movement, just published “Secondhand smoke infiltration in multiunit housing: Health effects and nicotine levels” in Indoor Environments. This paper is a combination literature review and summary of data heContinue reading “What you need to know about secondhand smoke in multiunit housing”
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Contrary to public position, Juul founders wanted to attract former and non-smokers from the beginning
Juul co-founders Adam Monsees and James Bowen portray themselves as idealistic entrepreneurs committed to improving the health of billions of adult smokers with no intent to sell nicotine to non-smokers. Documents released as part of the settlement of North Carolina’s lawsuit against Juul, however, tells quite a different story. In particular, Monsees & Bowen’s 2006Continue reading “Contrary to public position, Juul founders wanted to attract former and non-smokers from the beginning”
Youth living in vapefree homes much less likely to use e-cigs
While the reason for enacting smokefree laws and implementing voluntary smokefree policies has been to protect people from secondhand smoke, a well-established side effect is that they help adult smokers quit and help prevent youth smoking (laws, home policies). Now Jeremy Staff and his colleagues have shown that kids living in vapefree households are muchContinue reading “Youth living in vapefree homes much less likely to use e-cigs”
More evidence that comprehensive smokefree laws are a good idea: Less youth vaping
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”
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”
Ecig regulations associated with less use by kids in EU
Governments are increasingly responding to the rapid growth of youth e-cigarette use with policies that restrict use and marketing of e-cigarettes. Hanna Ollila and colleagues’ new paper, “Exclusive and dual use of electronic cigarettes among European youth in 32 countries with different regulatory landscapes” shows, based on 2019 data, that stronger regulation of e-cigarettes isContinue reading “Ecig regulations associated with less use by kids in EU”
Secondhand smoke increases bladder cancer risk
We have known since the 1980s that secondhand tobacco smoke causes lung cancer, but there has not been much attention to whether secondhand smoke causes other cancers that active smoking causes. I recently became aware of a well-done meta-analysis of the association between secondhand smoke and bladder cancer. (Bladder cancer is right behind lung cancerContinue reading “Secondhand smoke increases bladder cancer risk”
Did we just have a secondhand smoke moment for fentanyl?
From time to time public health professionals, physicians, and policy makers have asked me what lessons from tobacco control apply to the drug problem. I have had a hard time answering this question because the most important change in the tobacco debate — the emergence of the health effects of secondhand smoke and concerns byContinue reading “Did we just have a secondhand smoke moment for fentanyl?”
Smokefree laws reduce preterm births
Kristin Ashford, Ellen Hahn and their colleagues at the University of Kentucky recently published and important addition to the literature on the immediate health benefits of smokefree laws. Their paper ‘Municipal smoke-free laws and preterm birth Municipal smoke-free laws and preterm birth” cross-links 16 years of birth data in Kentucky to their database of localContinue reading “Smokefree laws reduce preterm births”
Excellent legal analysis of protecting bystanders from cannabis use in multiunit housing
Dan Orenstein recently published an excellent review and analysis of extending smokefree multiunit housing laws to include cannabis, “Multiunit Housing and Cannabis: Good Laws Make Good Neighbors.” In particular, he considers the impact of the fact that cannabis remains illegal under federal law as well as prohibited from public use even in states that haveContinue reading “Excellent legal analysis of protecting bystanders from cannabis use in multiunit housing”
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