The Health Ministry in Canada, which used to be a leader in tobacco control, has completely embraced the tobacco companies’ “harm reduction” agenda. It’s time for Prime Minister Trudeau to order them to put protecting health above standing aside for the tobacco companies to continue to expand their product lines. Unless the Canadian Government reversesContinue reading “Astonishing: Health Canada makes it legal for flavoured nicotine products from Imperial Tobacco to be sold to children”
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New national data shows kids using “ice” tobacco products; FDA needs to include them in pending menthol product standards
Last week the CDC and FDA published the 2023 statistics on youth tobacco use from the National Youth Tobacco Survey (FDA press release). The good news is that high school student overall tobacco use is down significantly compared to 2022 (from 16.5% to 12.6%), driven in large part by a drop in e-cigarette use (fromContinue reading “New national data shows kids using “ice” tobacco products; FDA needs to include them in pending menthol product standards”
Netflix documentary Big Vape is worth watching
Like Jamie Ducharme’s book Big Vape, the four hour (in four episodes) Netflix documentary Big Vape tracks Juul’s development from an idea by two Stanford grad students to compete with Big Tobacco by creating a less dangerous product to replace cigarettes into part of the tobacco industry. It does a particularity good job of highlightingContinue reading “Netflix documentary Big Vape is worth watching”
Regulations prohibiting import and sales of e-cigs work; Brazil and Thailand should keep them
Dozens of countries have issued regulations simply prohibiting the import and sale of e-cigarettes. These policies are under attack in Brazil and Thailand (again). Industry advocates argue that a better policy would be to legalize and regulate these products. The actual evidence tells a very different story. While policies prohibiting the import and sale ofContinue reading “Regulations prohibiting import and sales of e-cigs work; Brazil and Thailand should keep them”
FDA (and others) should integrate the relationship between cannabis and tobacco use
My UCSF colleagues and I submitted a public comment to the FDA Center for Tobacco Products regarding its upcoming strategic plan urging FDA to more strongly integrate the crossover between tobacco and cannabis use into its planning. While FDA does not (yet) have jurisdiction over cannabis, there is no question that growing cannabis use hasContinue reading “FDA (and others) should integrate the relationship between cannabis and tobacco use”
Juul 2: Facebook merges with a drug cartel
E-cigarette company Juul has applied to the FDA for permission to market its Juul 2 e-cigarette, which allows two-way communication with the device, nominally to prevent youth use. Juul reports that the Juul 2 pairs with a phone app to verify a user’s age: “The user must upload their photo ID and take a real-timeContinue reading “Juul 2: Facebook merges with a drug cartel”
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.”
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”
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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