The two justifications for the FDA’s proposed product standard prohibiting menthol cigarettes and cigars are (1) it will reduce youth initiation, and (2) it will help menthol smokers to quit. Now Sarah Mills and colleagues have published a review and meta-analysis of the effects of menthol bans around the world, The Impact of Menthol CigaretteContinue reading “Banning menthol leads a quarter of menthol smokers to quit”
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Relevant to COP10: Pharmaceuticalisation as the tobacco industry’s endgame
Yogi Hendlin, Eileen Han and Pam Ling’s new paper Pharmaceuticalisation as the tobacco industry’s endgame provides a detailed analysis of how the multinational tobacco companies have developed and used the companies efforts to reposition themselves a source for “clean” nicotine while simultaneously maintaining and expanding their sales of cigarettes and other “traditional” tobacco products whereContinue reading “Relevant to COP10: Pharmaceuticalisation as the tobacco industry’s endgame”
COP10 delegates need to base decisions on latest e-cig evidence, not the same old studies e-cig advocates promote
In the lead up to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Tenth Conference of the Parties that starts today, advocates for e-cigarettes and other “reduced harm” tobacco products have been busy again arguing that delegates should embrace these products. In reviewing some of this material, I have been struck by the fact that theirContinue reading “COP10 delegates need to base decisions on latest e-cig evidence, not the same old studies e-cig advocates promote”
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”
Ecigs increased health costs by $15.1 billion in 2018
Until now we have not had direct estimates of the costs of treating the excess disease that e-cigarettes cause. Now, Yingning Wang and her UCSF colleagues have published Healthcare utilisation and expenditures attributable to current e-cigarette use among US adults that applies the same well-established methods they have used to estimate the medical costs of smokingContinue reading “Ecigs increased health costs by $15.1 billion in 2018”
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