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”
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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”
Who’s behind the expensive campaign to ban Chinese disposable e-cigs?
On June 21, 2023 Consumer Action for a Strong Economy ran this full page ad in the San Francisco Chronicle urging the public to demand that the FDA “get illicit disposable vapes in kid-enticing flavors from China off American store shelves.” On the webpage linked to this ad, Consumer Action for a Strong Economy (CASE)Continue reading “Who’s behind the expensive campaign to ban Chinese disposable e-cigs?”
Guardian exposes Big Tobacco’s effort to make it look like the public opposes e-cig regulation in England
Last week, the Guardian published a detailed article, Lobbyists with links to Big Tobacco fund pro-vaping Facebook campaigns: Secretive lobby groups are spreading pro-e-cigarette messages purporting to be grassroots campaigns, detailing how historical tobacco industry allies and third parties have created a network to make it look like there is grass-roots opposition to regulate e-cigarettes.Continue reading “Guardian exposes Big Tobacco’s effort to make it look like the public opposes e-cig regulation in England”
Watch “E-cigarettes: Harm enhancement and protection of global tobacco interests”
On May 31, 2023, I delivered an invited lecture to the Associação Brasileira de Estudos do Álcool e outras Drogas (Brazilian Association for the Study of Alcohol and Other Drugs) entitled “E-cigarettes: Harm enhancement and protection of global tobacco interests.” As the title indicates it is a comprehensive review of the current state of knowledgeContinue reading “Watch “E-cigarettes: Harm enhancement and protection of global tobacco interests””
New paper details how PMI’s Foundation for a Smokefree World manipulates science; the more things change the more they stay the same
In 2017, Philip Morris International created the Foundation for a Smokefree World, which is widely viewed among health advocates, including the World Health Organization, as the latest industry device to slow down progress in tobacco control by claiming to be “part of the solution.” In particular, FSFW claims to its mission is to “to endContinue reading “New paper details how PMI’s Foundation for a Smokefree World manipulates science; the more things change the more they stay the same”
California AG determines that “non-menthol” cigs are flavored and so illegal to sell in California
On April 25, 2023, the California Attorney General’s office wrote RJ Reynolds and ITG brands notifying them that several of their brands currently being sold in California are flavored and violate the California prohibition on the sale of flavored tobacco products: This is because the California law established a rebuttable presumption that a tobacco productContinue reading “California AG determines that “non-menthol” cigs are flavored and so illegal to sell in California”
GOP efforts to limit ballot measures protecting abortion build on similar efforts by Big Tobacco in the 1980s
On April 23, 2023 the New York Times published an extensive description of how Republican states are trying to limit access to ballot initiatives that pro-choice groups have been using to protect abortion access. Such efforts are not new. After public health advocates started using the initiative process to pass tobacco control measures, including tobaccoContinue reading “GOP efforts to limit ballot measures protecting abortion build on similar efforts by Big Tobacco in the 1980s”
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