The 1964 Report on Smoking and Health represented a turning point in the history of tobacco in the United States and the world. Now Don Shopland [photo above], who at the time was an eighteen year-old, “newly working at the National Library of Medicine,” who found himself moonlighting for the Surgeon General’s Advisory Committee thatContinue reading “Read the behind scenes story of the 1964 Surgeon General Report on Smoking and Health”
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Smoking cessation quickly reduces mortality, within 3 years
It’s been long-established that quitting smoking prolongs life and that quitting young (below about 40) eliminates all or almost all the mortality costs of smoking. The new paper Smoking Cessation and Short- and Longer-Term Mortality by Eo Rin Cho and colleagues extends this case to more recent data and from several countries. While they confirmContinue reading “Smoking cessation quickly reduces mortality, within 3 years”
Cochrane Collaborative concludes that e-cigs as medicines help a few people shop smoking (again); still ignoring differences between medicines and consumer products as well as dual use
On January 8, 2024, the Cochrane Collaborative published yet another meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials concluding that e-cigarettes help a few people stop smoking. While industry and other pro-e-cigarette interests will make a big deal of this, the fact is that there is nothing new here. Here is their primary conclusion: There is high certaintyContinue reading “Cochrane Collaborative concludes that e-cigs as medicines help a few people shop smoking (again); still ignoring differences between medicines and consumer products as well as dual use”
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