News Archives
2010
1Nov
Banning smoking in palliative patients is cruel and conforms to none of the supposed goals of anti-smoking policyHell, why not move straight to ban smokers from reproducing? Anti-smokers and eugenicists - a perfect match
Cdn tobacco farmers suing the federal government for failing to enforce laws against contraband cigarette sellers
31Oct
Bad science in a good cause is bad scienceMaking things "less safe" might increase risk awareness in general
Goldacre on how study participants may not be your average person
Its never really been nonsmokers against smokers but anti-smoking activists versus common sense
Righteous and sinful too: Council that banned smokers from fostering children invested in cigarette stocks
Smoke break? Clock off. Coffee break? Keep getting paid.
Hypocritical anti-tobacco actions in Alberta
Overly precautionary: tobacco policy needs to return to the real world
29Oct
Mayo Clinic once again publishes some absurdly ignorant health informationNYC enacts another tobacco ban that scores political points but does not really impact the market at all
So if smoking related health costs the economy billions, advocating safer alternatives could save the economy billions
Funny anti-Alcoholics Anonymous lexicon
28Oct
Good to permit longer duration nrts but hypocritical coming from source that tries to block safer alternativesMore smokers are nIght owls: if tobacco control hears about this they might decide to agitate for curfews
Georgia prisons tobacco-free now? I'd be a little more impressed if they were rape-free. Now that is a real problem.
Pharmaceutical firms support anti-tobacco groups which then support subsidizing smoking cessation drugs
Common sense response to political posturing and groundless fearmongering over misdescribed "tobacco candy"
Banning menthols not the smartest political nor evidence based move
27Oct
Nanny statism comes to Alberta (there is more to Canada than this nonsense but it is embarrassing nonetheless)Retracing steps in the most absurd fundraising cross country run to date
Anti-tobacco advocates still don't seem to understand that all humans enjoy flavors (not just kids)
FOREST report details anti-smoking agencies funded by government in order to lobby government
26Oct
Anti-smoking policies increase black market salesDPM Clegg expresses desire for a smoke on a deserted island and runs up against thought control (cowardly new world)
Isnt a 43 chainsmoker suing a tobacco company like a chronic speeder suing a car company?
ASH launch new desert island campaign against 2nd hand smoke
25Oct
More Duh! research: anxiety prone have harder time quitting smoking (and researcher believes that nrts usually work)When the evidence does not support you its time to trot out the babies
Duelling studies: first nicotine good for Alzheimers and now smoking bad
FDA on the brink of creating big boost to contraband market if ban on menthol goes through
If you treat tobacco use as illicit there is no reason why people won't lie about using
No end to hypocrisy, Saudi man who is smoker divorces new wife because she is a smoker
The contraband market depends on tobacco control policies to keep its product attractive
24Oct
U.S. drug wars — all from the “left”?What kind of a maniac, one might think to oneself, does not smoke when in control, or part-control, of one's country?
If smoking causes global warming, I'm sure that Glantz can find a little cooling as a result of the smoking bans
Higher cigarette taxes means black market can hike their prices as well; more money for everybody except smokers
So when a tobacco company uses FOIP that is nefarious? Sounds more like democracy to me
Global Farmer Petition against ‘Devastating’ World Health Organization (WHO) Proposals Gains Momentum
Thinking about the tobacco black market
21Oct
Homeless man fined over 600 pounds for dropping a cigarette butt; he might get free room and board out of thisCanadian convenience stores ask for no more tobacco tax increases until contraband level is under 10%
Must be close to murder with this kind of response; Norway fines $1700 and deports Tunisian for smoking illegally
The damage done when researchers do not understand the harm reduction concept
Charter jetline offers ecigs to complete 1st class experience: will safe and pleasurable nicotine remain a class issue?
20Oct
Another foray into transport safety (car seats) and misleading statistics (CVPhillips at ep-ology)Nicotine shows promise as treatment for Alzheimers
"There’s only so much government can and should do" McGinty's reasonable response to anti-tobacco activists
Allow landlords to ban smoking -doesn't this imply also allowing them to allow smoking? My naive dreams of democracy
Is Iceland going Swedish? Cigarette sales down 13% smokeless tobacco sales up 9%
19Oct
David Suzuki adds to cancer paranoia with dirty dozen toxin list (is it too much to ask for some sense of proportion?)Re menthol and African-Americans: Anti-smoking advocates confuse taking a position with acting as a front group
Debt ridden Greeks find they cannot afford the new smoking regulations; already shaky businesses at risk
Birds use cigarette butts to line nests: concerns that nestlings are entering world as nicotine addicts
Tobacco Control: Not really thinking outside the box
17Oct
Is the pharmaceutical industry trying to corner the market on all nicotine by supporting nicotine reduction in tobacco?Readers concerned that buried miners were subject to 2nd hand smoke
Raising tax on alcohol unlikely to affect heavy drinkers
Danish health minister taken to task for saying passive smoking not that important in comparison to active smoking
15Oct
Anti-smoking advocate would prefer cigarettes be contraband purchase than profit tobacco companies (and the taxes?)Electronic cigarettes offer healthier smoking alternative
Petition Europeans for Snus: trying to make legal the safer alternative
Bigger warning labels on tobacco support black market purchases and could make more likely labels for other products
14Oct
Biggest public health advance of the century: new nicotine products could virtually wipe out smoking related disease!The CMAJ, IDRC, and Barbara McDougall; and the tobacco-association witchhunts
Smoking ban as expulsion of the underclass from public spaces?
Cancer is not a disease of the modern world (NewScientist)
13Oct
Uganda realizes that tobacco control can play havoc with a vulnerable economyCanada anti-tobacco groups seek to protect domestic industry by putting Macedonian farmers out of work
Norway has more people quitting smoking through snus use than any other means
On the changing evidential goalposts of Stanton Glantz
If 2nd hand smoke not much worse than smoking but 2nd hand smoke no better than smoking, is smoking still bad for you?
12Oct
Vargas Llosa on smoking, quitting, and living10Oct
FCTC: Constructing a new assault on smokeless tobacco and electronic cigarettes: Part 4: or taxing the way to prohibi…8Oct
They just can’t let a good thing be a good thing; Heigl, e-cigarettes, and cries of its still addiction!!Nuns, prostitutes, witches and toads (cervical cancer and causes through history) from Snowdon
Is banning menthol a form of ethnic paternalism?
Law enforcement officials worry about resource strain if FDA menthol ban were to go through and increase smuggling
Putting a smoking disclaimer on MadMen is like putting an abuse disclaimer on Dickens
More science by press release: 3rd hand smoke & John Banzhaf (from Siegel)
6Oct
FCTC: Constructing a new assault on smokeless tobacco and electronic cigarettes: BackgroundPeople are starving but there is enough money to monitor the source that kids don't actually get their tobacco from
Imagining tobacco without nicotine (Rodu)
Study finds that light drinking may not harm fetus ; watch the no safe exposure crowd come out for this one
5Oct
Noted lunatic Banzhaf has new explanation for why so many thick skinned adults running aroundAdd this to the "If your disease declines for a few years it can only be due to growing smoking restrictions" list
Martin Robbins on the shortfalls in science journalism (and how to fix them)
GlaxoSmithKline and the FDA entreaty
4Oct
You'd think anti-smoking groups would embrace smuggling since it undermines their mortal enemy Big TobaccoTobacco harm reduction as class equity issue (CV Phillips); healthier choice more available to the already healthier
Puddlecote has good collection of anti-smoking hate quotes
Great letter in response to attacks on the smoke break; a reasonable defense
1Oct
Good for smoker health to switch to smokeless, not sure about this one though (chickenshit snuff)29Sept
Rodu on dual use and whether it jeopardizes tobacco harm reduction: absolutely not!Just how stupid to anti-smoking groups think people are? Op ed from a non-smoker on calls for more warning labels
28Sept
GlaxoSmithKline asks FDA to award them a monopoly on smoking alternativesFinns set to make smoking allowable only on balconies, in one's own home and in cars; wonder how this will play out
Katherine Heigl promotes ecig as mini-humidifier on David Letterman show
Researchers say not enough nicotine in alternative products
Will Europe extend ban to all smokeless tobacco or come to its senses and allow back a superior alternative to smoking?
GlaxoSmith asking government to remove competing products (another thrilling day in the free market)
Anna Gilmore adds junk economics to her junk epidemiology portfolio; CVPhillips on latest tob control strategy idea
27Sept
ACSH letter to AHA on political response to what should have been treated as a health issuePediatrics suggests locking children in featureless room for most of the day to reduce exposure to smoking/alcohol ads
Filipino MDs banned from smoking; can't think of other precedents for a profession re using a legal product ever
Ben Goldacre considers the ethics of taxpayers paying for porn in the service of sperm donation
Professional football appropriate viewing for children as long as they don't see the advertising
Funny and informative snus ad out of Sweden
24Sept
Filed under: this is news?22Sept
FDA and Public Health: At cross purposes21Sept
Can we trust FDA to regulate ecigs responsibly when they are so misleading when it comes to snus?news or how many countries are there where you can sue on the basis of your own gullibility
Dementia expensive and on the rise (nonsmokers account for much larger portion -should be taxed to recover costs?)
(Onion once again hits the spot):6000 runners fail to find cure for breast cancer
20Sept
I challenge John Banzhaf to write just one press release where he doesn't mention himself, and in the 3rd personSin taxes only oppress the poor and increase class health disparities; (at Puddlecote)
Dual use is not an obstacle to tobacco harm reduction
19Sept
People may have to start invoking the fifth amendment when it being asked if they are a smokerIs passive smoker the new official term for nonsmoker?
Med school must be a lot easier than its made out to be; another doctor who I wouldn't trust with a skinned knee
So right about the science on snus and so wrong about the science on American smokeless tobacco
18Sept
Time to take a stand on sitting down? Be interesting to see the proposed regulations on this17Sept
Why your opinion does not matter -Doug Stanhope videoAmerLungAssn promotes Champix funded research that finds that more Champix would save economy much money
Inside Canada’s underground tobacco industry -new series of reports from the National Post
Lunatic advises parents that 3rd hand smoke may be greater threat to baby than smoking itself
Children poisoning more often household medicines than chemicals/cleaning products
16Sept
Worst e-cigarette article to date? And from a two time Pulitzer winnerChemicals, Cancer And Claptrap (from ACSH -common sense about environmental toxins
15Sept
More from Mike Siegel on the FDA e-cig nonsenseThe American Heart Association Has No Compassion for Smokers (from Brad Rodu's blog -deconstructing the policy paper)
Science and Journalism (from Bishopblog)
14Sept
Pro-THR (and even pro-smoking) advocates clearly have the intellectual and ethical upper hand, at least in ScotlandIs parody dead when writing about tobacco harm reduction?
13Sept
The persistence of illogical statements; three failing filtersNew poll finds that many Americans believe the results of polls substitute adequately for thoughtful analysis
Siegel sounds off on FDA attack on ecigs; why no attack on other quit smoking and quit smokeless product claims
11Sept
2nd hand smoke business opportunities abound: new home toxin testing kit; fun for the whole familyA case of life-threatening rectal administration of moist snuff
Ecigs bad because unlike proper smoking cessation, they are fun
10Sept
Promising treatment for lung cancer and the press9Sept
FDA effectively shutting down e-cigarettesBad sign: FDA moves on ecigs; not odd considering USA one of the few developed nations without universal health care
To ban smoking isn't quite enough, you need to BAN SMOKING; antis argue for local ordinances on top of state ones
Letter from EcigaretteDirect to MHRA on current regulatory limbo (and the hanging threat of a 21day industry shutdown)
Kansas businesses invest in patios for smokers: I wouldn't spend too much -they'll be coming after those next
Lung cancer in Japan quite different than lung cancer in America
8Sept
Despite what they say, when it comes to tobacco, the CDC is not that concerned about your healthWhat's the matter with menthols? Reason.com video on the issue
7Sept
North Carolina has first no screaming kids restaurant; shall we call that avoiding dangers of 2nd hand parentingOhio spending over a million to help struggling nicotine replacement product industry
Oz competes with California for paternalistic policies; asks for taxes on junk food and more on alcohol and tobacco
CDC director blames tobacco industry for smoking plateau rather than own policy to block safer alternatives
It's sad when a phrase stands out simply for exhibiting common sense
6Sept
Oz govt compensating smoker for caving into peer pressure; once the land of the independent spirit, no more it seemsNothing says success like citizens informing on each other; society is about give & take, not rigidity, rules and rats
Banning single cigarette and small pack sales may encourage buying and then smoking more than one was planning to
Puddlecote on vaping as revenge on paternalistic anti-smoking extremists
5Sept
2nd hand smoke now said to kill 65000 Americans a year....in other news, very few places left to get 2nd hand smoke"The law must eliminate people's improper use of themselves" about public spaces, benches and smoking
Why is there an assumption that people who smoke are a different group than people who are active (re smoking in parks)
3Sept
Arrested for selling 2 cigs: another master criminal taken off the streets, citizens get big return on their taxesWill hospital next sue auto firms for costs for bill defaulting accident victims, fast food joints for obese?
Residual tobacco smoke pollution in used cars for sale: more Nobel-worthy research
Enstrom working in California is like an academic version of running with the bulls (hit)
Vancouver public park smoking ban as discriminating against schizophrenics
More 3rd hand smoke fear insanity; used cars previously owned by smokers can kill you; California research of course
2Sept
Good common sense article discussing downside of Vancouver smoking banWait til we start setting the kids loose on alcohol, fast foods, etc...
Penn & Teller video - on Second Hand Smoke Part 1
One of the better articles on e-cigarettes (carcinogens at same levels as in pharmaceuticals)
Taking smoking out of the movies is not going to take it out of the world: CVPhillips on movies & smoking
1Sept
Amer Cancer Soc works hard to keep cancer rates up; and doing it all on donations too, ethical?University of Florida doctors using 3rd hand smoke fears instead of practicing evidence based medicine
Russians who care about their country asked to smoke and drink more
1/3 of smokers lie about habit to secure housing; how many do you think might be lying on population smoking surveys?
31Aug
Vaccines: science policy and politics; being right but being suedCMAJ should be subsidizing smokeless tobacco
Lazy butt toss burns up smokers car; headline says its reason not to smoke but its more just a reason to grow a brain
Same argument for cessation applies even more to switching to safer alternatives (no disease but with economic activity)
Yes, and even driving just once could get you into a fatal accident...
Why worry about how many outlets there are per people who are not allowed to purchase the product in the first place
In anti-smoking policy, Vancouver becomes even more Californian (proximity is dangerous)
30Aug
Good news re harm reduction from Canada; Toronto endorses Vienna Declaration, now if we can just get a federal nodOff topic but worth a tweet: dating advice from Disney movies
More expert support of Insite for Harper govt to ignore; anti-health govt adds to Cdn everyman's burden of shame
ACSH on reducing smoking restrictions to restore gov revenues (Bulgaria and Romania)
If one small lie could stop someone from ever smoking?
Keeping tobacco out of sight in a tobacco shop is just bizarre
Its so complicated selling cigarettes that in Massachusetts you have to attend a course
29Aug
Where there's smoke...Smoking women more popular on online dating sitesNew drug cuts smokers' lung cancer risk; you know someone is going to label that as undermining the anti-smoking cause
Advertising purity: People want smoke free yard signs? What's next: teetotalers live here
Targacept & nicotine based remedies for cognitive deficits; might be clue that nicotine users get some benefit too?
This is not a parody post
Debunkosaurus is worth visiting; new resource to fight junk science
27Aug
Drop in bingo revenues due to nonsmoking (makes sense) and 9-11 (this I do not understand)Some serious third hand shit going on here
Good point in comments re if tobacco tax revenues fall lower where next will governments look to make up shortfall?
26Aug
CV Phillips at ep-ology on FDA tobacco regulations as intentional sabotage of free marketSCOOP! Leaked UPA Guidelines for Tobacco Reporting
Article against 2nd hand smoke describes smokers as a polite law abiding people. Bookmark as once in a lifetime event
Anna Raccoon: Tobacco Control discovers non anti-tobacco messages on Youtube: oh the horror the horror
25Aug
Y'know, just by chance, some place is going to have unusually high rates of cancer; its the way randomness worksMedicare to fund cessation for seniors (group that needs it the least) and like sex will probably be abstention only
Coming soon; on every available surface; warning labels: there is no safe level of exposure to 3rd hand smoke; just be afraid all the time
They don't get it that though people like the nicotine, it doesn't really explain everything about why they smoke
A Surgeon General (Air Force) should know more than his charges but seems he's the one needing direction (ecigs)
Tobacco taxes going to good causes but weren't they being levied to make up for smoking related health costs?
Tobacco purchases are made to feel illicit so why any hesitation in going black market (same feeling but cheaper)
On group pressure; classic Candid Camera elevator experiment
24Aug
David Nutt; sane on drugs but nuts on alcoholCrapquote of the day: nonsmokers can smell smoke from miles and miles away so ban it!!
Being anti-tobacco gives you a free pass in regards to conflict of interest
High smoke taxes decimate customers to retail which results in smoke shop closures which increases black market rule
3rd hand smoke issued a Phillipine visa; not checking background thoroughly it seems
Puddlecote with more on alcohol policy following the anti-tobacco path
23Aug
Now here's a good business idea; go back to cigarette cases to lose those graphic warning labelsHealth orgs should join lawsuit, Utah ban on flavored tobacco will contribute to the health burden and increase smoking
Improving mass transit in urban areas could counter obesity trends
CV Phillips on land mines, anti-tobacco campaigns and broke glass
Smoking in decline and smokeless tobacco use increasing; how is that anything but good news?
Best coverage yet on the ash flicking pensioner being fined 2500 pounds
Par for the course -banning drug on the basis of attributed deaths of teenagers who didn't take it in the first place
Instead of removing smoking from film why not makes lists for anti-smokers of movies they can watch without being hurt
Warner concerned that any discussions/considerations of life saving products will undermine evils of smoking message
Good report on midWest vapers meeting in St Louis
If kids want to act like adults, don't you think unflavored tobacco would be the biggest threat?
20Aug
So you are always having walks and runs for cancer, why no Runs for Obesity?If there is no safe level of 2nd hand smoke then how come so many of us are still walking around?
When harm reduction meets property rights; Warner Bros sues over Harry Popper condoms
Canadian group adds in their two cents to the smoking in the movies issue
19Aug
Ban politicians like Paul Ray since children might mistake them for reasonable choices as leadersLike dogs with a bone -most excellent; (Chris) (and Dick)
Healthier and still high -the e-joint cometh
Smoking, rape, and torture on the big screen; Stanton Glantz knows which of those really harms us
Here are some crazy e-juice flavors...pineapple cheesecake, jaeger bomb, dr. pepper
When it comes to smoking, police don't oppose vigilante action
Central Michigan University not the place I would go for health studies; just banned e-cigs on basis of 2nd hand smoke
Ironically alcohol prohibition is not only a stupid idea but it results in knowledge loss
18Aug
Activists seek to purify facebook from tobacco references (accuse BAT of undermining FCC convention)17Aug
Not surprised only 25% of Chinese think smoking bad; China historically the opposite of evidence based health practiceHiring policies to exclude tobacco users is just one big anti-Obama conspiracy? He'll never work in this town again!
Utah lawman working hard at making sure smokers won't have access to safer tobacco products
Join Dick Puddlecote's quest to gather the worst anti-smoking hate mongering statements
Get smokers back into the pubs where the kids won't see them (and they'll save those pubs in the bargain
Throw enough funding at any potential risk and it will become quite real; the continuing debacle of 3rd hand smoke
Study finds there is no safe level of exposure to John Banzhaf; rise in blood pressure and befuddlement inevitable
Rodu discusses new study showing no significant cardiovascular risk for smokeless tobacco users
Smokers deserve what they get; tobacco demonization stigmatizes lung cancer victims
Measuring 2nd hand smoke somehow turns into proof that "there is no safe level"; only in tobacco science
Sounds like the Scientologists are getting into addiction research; thinking right to quit smoking, eating, etc..
Majority of Chinese smoke, e-cigs come from China, WHO will be ensuring quit or die stays in place
UCLA votes to fire independently minded prof; Cal State fires anyone who won't sign loyalty oaths
16Aug
Brave new world in the UK; pensioner fined 2500 pounds for flicking ash; worse than drink driving sounds likeIf you are going to tax smokers for health costs seems kind of odd to eject then from hospital grounds for smoking
ACS moans about global cancer toll but fights tooth and nail against proven safer alternatives
Quebec: non-smokers are occupying 2/3 of all hospital beds and costing health care millions
IrishTimes op ed argues higher smoke prices to compensate for money lost to smuggling which rose due to high smoke cost
UCLA votes to fire Jim Enstrom
Stanton Peele on dismissing alcohol research funding when the results are incompatible with modern temperance leanings
Christopher Hitchens on his smoking/drinking as writing aid and rational choice despite cancer outcome
Evidence for tobacco advertising bans faulty
Frank Davis has a real winner on passive eating or 2nd hand obesity (via Dick Puddlecote)
Tobacco master settlement as huge lawyer money grab (among other things)
And I suppose you will be avoiding tropical beaches because they still allow smoking?
Letter written by smoking youth about tobacco and his intention to quit almost certainly manufactured
U of S Alabama skipped school on comparative risk day; you pay 25$ month if you use any form of tobacco
Cig rolling machines could undermine black market as long anti-smoking forces don't get worried about the price break
Siegel worth reading on FDA misfocus on tobacco constituents
Moral reasoning an oxymoron? Disgust driving policy
FDA's emergency contraceptive ok'd; better not be flavored or kids will start having sex
Gov says wants to listen to the people about laws they think should be changed or repealed as long as its not smoking
15Aug
Smoking bans spark obesity?White glove death article interesting but fails to understand the carnage associated with anti-smoking policies
I can't get worked up about declining gambling revenues due to smoke free laws; pubs closing though is a real shame
Bongs and meth pipes ok to display in Canberra but not tobacco related devices
Christian site argues smoking as a form of hate, addiction as a form of self idolatry
That obese people visit doctor more often called a good thing; when smokers do it it is a drain
Brilliant!: World War 1 explained as bar fight, theo spark via dick puddlecote
13Aug
Britains oldest smoker dies at 103 (takes years off your life they say; how sad her life was cut so short)Report: Swedes exaggerate the harmfulness of nicotine
Bloomberg takes time away from counting his offshore tax evading millions to aim at those tax free Seneca smokes
FDA hosts compliance meeting for retailers; suspect we won't see any such meetings regarding comparative risks
E-cigarettes: Kids are the red herring in this debate
If you are such a lazy smoker you can't even be bothered to light another, here's the perfect gift for you
Health types still have bizarre notion that kids start smoking because they don't know its unhealthy
Poor smokers less likely to quit so their cig taxes covering budget shortfalls; bailing out society that rejects them
12Aug
This was bound to come: New York smokers could face imprisonmentSmoking not bad for environment but driving is: tax on cigarettes increases travel to out of state and cheaper outlets
Tobacco control seeking help in how to further stick it to smokers
11Aug
Next up, no eating fast food within 15 feet of a doorwayWar on tobacco (in escalating taxes) fueling a growing criminal class (black market)
Conservapedia rejects theory of relativity for steering people away from God, and for being both general and relative
Chesnee bans smokeless tobacco because they are worried about 2nd hand smoke; put buying a dictionary on the agenda
Black market tobacco sellers salivate at prospect of cigarette plain packaging regulations in Australia
How was anything funded before the National Tobacco Settlement??
10Aug
Off topic but worth a mention re absurd medicalization; laziness as a diseaseElaine Keller has brilliant letter in response to article on needing new linguistic weapons in "war on tobacco"
Don't let the anti-tobacco folks hear about this; better yet why not funnel tobacco taxes to this instead of the usual
Guess if you are chowing down fast food AND smoking is too unhealthy even for McDonalds
Tobacco too deadly to be allowed into war zones; not good for the health of troops
ATF will try to keep terrorists away from guns right after their priority of reducing their access to cigarettes
If poor you are more likely to smoke and you pay more of your income for the smokes (who's that tax helping?)
High tax drives smokers to deadlier illicit cigarettes which increase the health cost the tax is supposed to pay for
Tob taxes hike hurts small business, aids black marketers & minimal impact on smoking; money grab equals revenue loss
9Aug
So if everyone switched to pastimes that were not overtaxed, would the state go bankrupt?People not smoking enough results in cuts to health services to the poor (Siegel)
Oregon attorney general makes sure teens stick to cigarettes and not try that deadly e-cigarette
Girls developing breasts as early as 7 (US study): gotta be caused by 2nd hand smoke don't you think?
Not about tobacco but interesting: road accidents as unintended consequences of reactions to speed cameras
More on 3rd hand smoke and its effect on chronic wounds or Research money: easy to get if you are anti-tobacco
8Aug
Inter agency war on tobacco communication unlikely since that would imperil the gravy trainIn Qatar, 2nd smoke said to cause premature death of 1/3 of the population
I'd too like to get money arising from the negative consequences of my decisions (but keep the profits from the good)
Removing menthol is not so much pro-health as it is anti-pleasure; we'll let you smoke as long as you don't enjoy it
Damned either way; constraining desires because of imposed taxes justifies the tax, paying it justifies it too.
Butt obsessions; why is cigarette litter so much more evil than other litter?
7Aug
Its who you are and what you do, not what you ingest that matters (Peele)Really trying to make the healthy choice the easy choice for smokers? must mean smokeless and ecigs are on the menu
Lower tobacco taxes might get more of that revenue by regaining some black market trade (won't ever happen)
6Aug
(Jakarta): Ecigarettes lead to "uncontrollable nicotine concentrations in the bodyWhat! An anti-smoking regulation went through without supporting evidence?
Quitting smoking successfully through social network apps
Been watching car commercials all my life; if I die in a crash, think my widow could get a couple of mil?
Just another joker who doesn't know a damn thing about nicotine or ecigarettes but writes as though he does
Idiot flyer means suffering thru 10 more yrs of smoking messages on flights (stop them, we all know, even the idiot)
Grant County has job opening for employee breath sniffer; smokers need not apply
5Aug
CDC fears poly-tobacco use; I drink beer, wine, scotch occasionally: is that riskier than 3 bottles wine a day?Siegel dissects the 2nd hand smoke causing poor academic performance report from junk journal Pediatrics
4Aug
Tobacco companies shouldn't fight plain packaging? Why stop there; why not make plain everything we don't approve ofTobacco display ban feeds the black market (Galway)
Taxpayer alert: Money to study the effects of 3rd hand smoke on wound healing; now thats money well spent
Never trust a man who writes about himself in the 3rd person (not that there are so many more reasons in this case)
3Aug
Puddlecote on anti-smoking actions generalizing to other activities; we told you soFrom the nonsmoking cigar shop to the teetotaling pub; Dick Puddlecote on the absurdities
More on Champix: From quit or die to quit and die
California again makes sure that smokers avoid those evil e-cigarettes, and if they smoke them, better not enjoy them
FDA says ecig purpose primarily to addict new users; they should recuse themselves from issue by reason of ignorance
Iraq province gives no smoking priority ahead of basic needs (water, electricity, food)
Person blames not being able to quit on insurance cap on cessation drug coverage rather than on their failure to work
For many, starting to smoke in exchange for a free Blackberry might sound good. More waste of taxpayer money
2Aug
Scottish hospitals plan to deny treatment to diabetics caught with sugar or traffic injuries if from drivingUnlike other consumers, smokers should never get a deal (you know they'll smoke twice as much if its cheaper!!)
This has to be illegal; new anti-smoking vigilantes snatch cigs out of smokers mouths to get them to consider quitting
Fruit flavored tobacco discovered in German smuggling; so that's where you can get it!
Smokers in NYC fight back; you do not have to be a smoker to empathize with this
Singapore letter suggests lmokeless tobacco as a safer alternative and new approach re failed efforts to date
SnusNews posting proves there is no safe level of exposure to articles published in Pediatrics
Chris Snowdon on MHRA letter and responses
Electronic Cigarette Industry Trade Association press release regarding MHRA letter on upcoming regulations
1Aug
We should genetically modify fruits to taste like celery so they aren't gateways to flavored tobacco or alcoholNZ Quitline spends $200 to register prospectives; how much does that work out to for each successful quitter?
Previous Iranian report re Zionists tainting smuggled smokes with nuclear material now say also pig blood
Ireland has highest cigarette prices and highest smuggling levels -no suprizes there
30July
Under news to me: Sounds like up until this year, children could buy tobacco in MinnesotaFile under couldn't make this up: Iranian official says Zionists taint Phillip Morris cigarettes with nuclear matter
Influential health authorities base their deep analysis of e-cigarettes on a picture
3rd hand smoke must cause all those heart attacks that 1st and 2nd hand smoke don't; bet I could get funding for that
Maybe parks should bar everyone who is not there to "promote a healthy lifestyle"; relaxation not good enough?
Clandestine smoking: the other effect of stigmatization; smokers go off the map; effect on smoking stats?
Brilliant piece re the zero tolerance society
If 2nd hand smoke is third leading cause, smoking must be 1st or 2nd, explains why nonsmokers don't die
Reiteration of nonsense theory of single smoked cigarette as all powerful addiction mechanism
Contextualizing the FDA e-cigarette debacle (history and opinion)
29July
Making psych wards go smoke-free is no different than forced treatment; http://bit.ly/90IoYcThe new attack on e-cigs; they are not as efficient as cigarettes (yes, and cars are more efficient than bicycles.so?); http://bit.ly/aK3WFV
28July
Some misinformation about supposed drop in Cdn black market activity and tax-smuggling relationship; http://bit.ly/cTSWTFGraphic ads scare some smokers but telling that they call it "helping" them; like strapping in school helped kids; http://bit.ly/awSL3y
Another ecigs as potential cessation study for the FDA, ACS and ALA to ignore; http://bit.ly/9jKKyz
ACS grades others but ignores own major fail in fighting safer alternatives for smokers; too busy pushing NRTs; http://bit.ly/aI4Xtg
Every Cigarette Smoked in Mad Men (video); http://bit.ly/bE41YH
Pharma influence continues to bias cessation information toward least effective solutions, to the detriment of smokers; http://bit.ly/aqiE0Z
Better reason to ban smoking in your home is the stink and not the health risks on which the evidence is iffy; http://bit.ly/b07a2A
Smoking might not be good for the kids but sometimes its the only sanctuary/relief for stressed out mom; http://bit.ly/aYedwO
In Texas but worthy of California: butt littering called gateway to other littering; http://bit.ly/aLh7g2
Ferrence says outdoor smoking like atomic bomb clouds; air only makes problem worse; so indoor smoking not so bad?; http://bit.ly/aH2KZi
27July
Rather 2nd hand smoke than 1st hand assault; Champix linked to violence; http://bit.ly/cIryHoMust bite for authorities to return confiscated cigs back to black market and possibly compensate for loss as well; http://bit.ly/96tFmX
So will the FDA label foreign cigarettes as "not a safe alternative to American cigarettes"?; http://bit.ly/akbziO
26July
E-cigarette misinformation hits a new high thanks to fearmongering and science challenged media at KFBB; http://bit.ly/dkIwRFAnti-smoking demonization leads to stigmatization of lung cancer sufferers; http://bit.ly/9KDHSV
Smoking causes acne? Can't wait to see that warning label!; http://exm.nr/aeYMl1
Doublespeak: is it really "extending smoke free status to psychiatric patients" or is it forcing them to stop smoking; http://bit.ly/bxlFRr
Young back banning tobacco ads; and that matters how?; http://bit.ly/brWMTx
Best headline for some time: addicted toddler able to coerce an entire country to ratify an international agreement; http://bit.ly/bxpe96
So being wrong and then reversing your position makes you somehow more moral than someone who was right all along? http://bit.ly/bzhsM2
25July
Usorious tobacco prices bolster black market which funnels money away from the public into criminal coffers; http://bit.ly/d1vTY6Pfizer offering free clinic to promote nicotine; http://bit.ly/8YBguI
How about a new law prohibiting campfires and barbecues within 20 feet of any campers: http://bit.ly/aYw6ce
Maybe if we hide they will go away: MHRA has no response to RPC criticism of ecig actions; http://bit.ly/ddng6C
23July
More breaking news: tobacco smugglers do it to earn money; http://bit.ly/c8XR7rComplementing 2nd hand smoke, now danger of 2nd hand quitting; Champix and homicidal ideation; http://bit.ly/bjGGmo
Maybe years from now there will be an affirmative action movement to get smokers represented in the workforce; http://bit.ly/aavaNH
Forget blowing smoke in his face: Billy Piper names son after cigarette brand; http://bit.ly/doXpPl
More fun from Florida: Tobacco suit rulings will be based on whether cigarettes considered defective? http://bit.ly/dlTxLF
Anti-smoking funding prioritized over lung cancer research funding? Non-smoker lung cancers research bearing brunt; http://bit.ly/9gYWwZ
E-cigs dismissed as questionable alternatives on the basis of them being not as perfectly efficient as cigarettes; http://bit.ly/9ZqXxM
It was only a matter of time: graphical warnings on alcohol and then what?; http://bit.ly/a7hoOD
Seeing cars make me want to drive say children; legislation pending to remove cars from open display; http://bit.ly/c6bcRv
22July
Scarred for life by evil abusive murderous mother or maybe just a blogger with nothing to report; http://bit.ly/cqIfCfBribing people to be healthy interesting idea but can you afford it if everyone takes you up on it?; http://bit.ly/bsAViP
Town counselor wants nonEnglish speakers to remain ignorant of dangers of smoking; http://bit.ly/c5ySJJ
Anti-tobacco harm reduction matched only in nonsense by anti-contraception politics; http://bit.ly/c9SLLN
In defense of social smoking; cigars and friendship; sounds downright evil; http://bit.ly/bmllNZ
Cannabis 2nd hand smoke ok but not tobacco in Sebastopol multi-unit dwellings; http://bit.ly/dkHxKf
Tax break for smoke free establishments rather than forcible city wide ban? Savannah bars try to stay in business; http://bit.ly/bDihxZ
Flavored tobacco products still found on some shelves; world falls apart; http://bit.ly/apO9hB
Flavored tobacco products still found on some shelves; world falls apart; http://bit.ly/apO9hB
21July
Calling ecigs a loophole in anti-smoking regs is like calling pedestrians loopholes in no traffic zones; http://bit.ly/aqlsuVState budgets: Now that smokers are tapped out, time to go after gamblers, and then? http://bit.ly/dmQwAG
2.1 million dollars because they might not have heard that smoking is bad for you? http://bit.ly/9quurH
American Cancer Society also supported light cigarettes (Rodu); http://bit.ly/aSmCWa
Recent Albany County Legislature move illustrates unfortunate downside of letting anyone run for office; http://bit.ly/cCGiLe
Anti-smoking initiative to further surveillance/informer society; text if you see smokers (and while you are driving?); http://bit.ly/aFZZm5
Doctor worries about ecigarettes as communicable disease carriers among other interesting beliefs; http://bit.ly/awlPow
Teens say they are not falling for tobacco message in movie and still think they need to be removed? http://bit.ly/8YVyOx
Drop in smoking causes shortfalls in state budgets dependent on tobacco revenues; http://bit.ly/deGxSY
Good news out of Norway; more evidence of snus as useful smoking cessation product; (Sullum at Reason); http://bit.ly/9C3JUl
Snowdon on dark markets (history of); politics rather than science ruling tobacco retail regulations; http://bit.ly/98m2iQ
If just having to live in a particular country would drive me to smoke, Singapore would lead the pack; http://bit.ly/dojdfb
17July
Good summary of the health/smoking aspects of the menthol cigarette issue; http://bit.ly/aUWPYPTraffic pollution linked to rise in cardiac death; people not allowed to drive near pedestrians; http://bit.ly/aeN649
Obesity interventions more successful when non stigmatized; smokers are just different I guess; http://bit.ly/9j2t9Q
Looks like the "health" groups are being successful in making sure smokers stay wary of safer alternatives; http://bit.ly/9KXNtl
Did you ever smoke? No matter what else you've done with your life, a yes marks you as eternally flawed; http://bit.ly/d4i0cB
Breaking news: tobacco and alcohol industries market to increase product demand; (not like other industries); http://bit.ly/9NEMI4
Hamas takes steps to reduce risk of living in Gaza Strip by clamping down on hookah usage; http://bit.ly/aWULzH
Active tobacco harm reduction is the best way of undermining the tobacco black market; http://bit.ly/ayv05X
Point of sale tobacco advertising outperforms all other forms of advertising; http://bit.ly/dxI3TV
Funny how heart attacks always seem to drop 30% after any given tobacco control action; http://bit.ly/dCRH2H
Smoking a habit rather than an addiction?;
16July
Michigan hospital considers ejecting any obese patients caught with snacks; http://bit.ly/ckKs7rStier points out that menthol debate insignificant in comparison to potential gains from tobacco harm reduction; http://bit.ly/9MN7cZ
New Mexico suffers med marijuana shortage due to overtight regulation; drive patients to black market; http://bit.ly/9XA8EE
Cdn expo extols marijuana vaping as healthier alternative to prescription drugs with negative side effects; http://bit.ly/9LHpcr
Re Patrick Basham: Tobacco display bans linked to increases in youth smoking? http://bit.ly/aJwFOD
15July
Possible Brit policy u-turn seen simply as health advocates versus tobacco interests: users don't matter?; http://bit.ly/d3I8DBGiven that higher educational levels correlate with less smoking shouldn't you try to keep smokers in school? http://bit.ly/c7fLRy
Addicted because he smoked so much but not addicted because he quit; millions at stake; http://bit.ly/ar5jeH
14July
City officials (public servants) make firing smoking city workers possible; unemployed smokers could end up on dole; http://bit.ly/aFdRkzAnything that smells like tobacco smoke is toxic?: and see new self serving redefinition of green; http://bit.ly/9CG0fm
Ordinance introduced to make public smoking imprisonable offence; on bright side, the smokes might be cheaper in there; http://bit.ly/aQghLj
Movies recruit half of all new smokers? Is television responsible for the other half? http://bit.ly/d5dQj0
2nd hand anti-smoking effects? NYC makes it compulsory for non smokers to be assaulted by graphic imagery; http://bit.ly/cqluqH
Sounds like NZ smokers should get a tax credit for their disproportionate contributions to economy; http://bit.ly/bymQNB
ACS thinks parents shocked to learn that most smoking children drawn to non-fruit flavoured products in dull packaging; http://bit.ly/a3lcu4
Lawsuit determines smoker 36%, Reynolds 64% for cancer; government somehow forgotten in the calculations? http://bit.ly/a0WdND
SnusNews thinks priority is to limit attraction of much safer alternative tob products smokers might be tempted to try; http://bit.ly/9fPhjV
Lautenberg should be pulled from the senate until his effect on public health has been studied and determined; http://bit.ly/9hcPig
Menthol smokers smoke because its minty and not for any other reason; maybe mints are a gateway to smoking? http://bit.ly/cjferW
Uni Med Center joins the anti-smoker policy trend; what's next? no hiring the overweight, the manic, the disorganized? http://bit.ly/cOIAPw
I knew that smoking was bad for your health but usually not as bad as this; http://bit.ly/b2RgRc
13July
Hobson's choice or absurdity in stating that budget concerns say that if kids are fat they won't smoke and vice versa; http://bit.ly/czLkW1Smokers purchasing across state lines will shrink NY sales which then might be interpreted as success for the tax hike; http://bit.ly/9bGqgm
Dentist makes statements about nicotine but seems to know nothing about it.http://bit.ly/aURyPB
12July
Winickoff admits to coining term 3rd hand smoke without taking the 5th; still shows face in public; http://bit.ly/cl4lpiWhite girls not being reached by tobacco control programs; more money could help reach this disadvantaged group; http://bit.ly/akQnF5
11July
Myers asks for more tobacco control money; seems his 1/4 million $ pay for pushing anti-smoker policies is not enough; http://bit.ly/93NtO2Golfing clubs soon to expel members for nicotine use; blood tests in the planning stage; http://bit.ly/dkhFsD
30yr old gum alternative to chew tobacco now called a gateway to tobacco; guess walking is gateway to driving cars; http://bit.ly/a2PlzT
Going into a store that sells tobacco; have to leave your baby on the street; http://bit.ly/b86Fml
9 July
This may set a new standard in the absurdity of the ban on public displays of tobacco images or history be damned; http://bit.ly/caAr8gMMRW editors follow pattern of blaming lack of progress on smoking rates on the environment rather than bad strategies; http://bit.ly/9SomW2
8 July
French youth wasn't interested in smoking but now that they are a little bit cheaper he has no option but to start; http://bit.ly/9HJRHxSince tobacco taxes are funding social programs shouldn't smokers get income tax rebates?; http://bit.ly/bkyqpj
Banning menthol could lead to larger black market which also leads to less regulated age restrictions; http://bit.ly/aehYie
Anti-tobacco activists upset cash flowing into their trough has to compete with cash flowing into anti-obesity trough; http://nyti.ms/cNXaEJ
Somehow a drop of almost 50% in teen smoking is interpreted as discouraging news;CDC must think zero is realistic goal; http://bit.ly/aFcEEJ
Sullum critiques FDA ecig ban argument saying definition would reclassify guns as medical devices; http://bit.ly/d7i7Gq
New Zealand ecig trials moving ahead; testing as cessation devices against placebos and patches; http://bit.ly/9nJcon
Myers won't understand smokerstats until he includes blackmarket in calcs; nor make progress with stale approaches; http://bit.ly/au9LCk
Next, fast food employees train to offer nutritional advice to customers; http://bit.ly/dwrHSE
Since smokers really pay for it all,Y not ask them if they would rather fund social services or the cessation industry; http://bit.ly/crAZcI
Asian doc believes 1st, 2nd and 3rd hand smoke equally dangerous. Surely quakes in fear leaving his apartment; http://bit.ly/dCyGLb
WHO joins North Amer governments in creating optimal conditions for much stronger and profitable tobacco black market; http://bit.ly/95f4Cv
Editorial asks gov to both tackle tobacco black market and for more legislation to push more smokers toward it; http://bit.ly/ap73fs
And then millions to develop an anti-caffeine vaccine? Of course, the nicotine vaccine would eat into the NRT profits; http://bit.ly/bOyaWF
Instead of studying what is obvious to everyone else, why not just use the money to buy ecigs for the smokers? http://bit.ly/c8Qdks
Watching films or television increases risk of tobacco use no matter what is on; how about a warning label for that?; http://bit.ly/ac1xWE
New E J Med publishes tired promotion of bad and failed strategies and various pseudoscience including 3rd hand smoke; http://bit.ly/d4Yjb6
Canada's Bill C-32 gives the black market a monopoly on the cigarello trade; http://bit.ly/dhON8Q
Again anti-tobacco activists say conforming to law re the new flavor restrictions is actually getting around the law??; http://bit.ly/9Pre11
Use of term spit tobacco by health orgs is antiquated, misleading and pejorative; http://bit.ly/95lU4O
Study concludes that rising tobacco taxes offset by black market; ineffective as strategy to reduce smoking; http://bit.ly/bFAkbx
7 July
Not really a strong fiscal policy to rely on punitive tobacco taxes to balance the budget; http://bit.ly/bSGZLyBloomberg bans eating in public parks and on benches because it causes litter and is unpleasant to observe; http://nyti.ms/9tYdfu
6 July
Kansas AG can tell the difference between vaping and smoking; a rare island of common sense; http://bit.ly/a5FNOMIsn't fining owners for others smoking on property strange? Usually just malefactors charged, not location of crime; http://bit.ly/9Us0te
Letter blames smokers and not regulators for reduced attendance in nonsmoking bars; http://bit.ly/d6AyHL
Anti-smoking groups say tobacco money intended for them to waste being wrongly used to fund health care; http://bit.ly/9XDUDI
5 July
This just in: Everyday life hazards just too much to deal with: Burning candles another sure route to ill health; http://bit.ly/9PKoNHCunningham has bizarre idea that tobacco flavoring is new when it has been around since use began; http://bit.ly/dnn2e0
Canadian government decides to give exclusive flavoured tobacco business to First Nations reservations; http://bit.ly/b5RrPC
French Health Minister says only government and not company has the right to set the price of their product; http://bit.ly/djzYqb
4July
Logical conseq.of market manipulation; Irish price hikes & display bans lead to substantial increase in black market; http://bit.ly/cqgZkaOn screen exposure to murder creates 10000 new murderers a year extrapolating from http://bit.ly/9vMASs anti-smoking rhetoric;
Time to put up pics of diseased livers in stores selling alcohol, and pics of gruesome accidents on the sides of cars; http://bit.ly/9sv4Rf
Lifeguards need to switch priorities from watching the water to catching smokers dropping butts; http://bit.ly/dAb89y
Veterans think that just because they fought to preserve freedom that they should be allowed to smoke together; http://bit.ly/9JrlOZ
Should all smoking staff have to follow nonsmoking ordinances if justified by risks to workers? http://bit.ly/ab2vjy
3 July
Tobacco tax hikes boost sales and profit margins of cigarette bootleggers; http://bit.ly/cMPVyhVery smart article: Smoking is never good, but sometimes it’s not so bad; http://bit.ly/bSu6OY
Good news:Some insurance companies move beyond simplistic tobacco use dichotomy and understand varying risks; http://bit.ly/9rmKeA
Taxpayers' loss: Personalized cessation therapy study blinded to more effective non-pharmaceutical options; http://bit.ly/aVrFfx
2 July
ALA thinks new tobacco tax to fund costly abstention efforts fiscally smart despite tob harmreduction being almost free http://bit.ly/chuOTEJoin petition to keep tobacco harm reduction viable by keeping snus on the market; http://bit.ly/aZtt8a
File under unintended and possibly pleasurable consequences; smoking strippers on the street due to indoor smoking ban; http://bit.ly/9FHb7V
If lawsuit has merit, it simply means that typical magazine illustrations in adult magazines are aimed at children; http://bit.ly/9NrxoH
Is the FDA obstructing research that would conflict with their own flawed conclusions re ecigs? http://bit.ly/bSxbRk
If people do not have the freedom of movement (institutionalized), is it ethical to ban smoking? http://bit.ly/ahnhJC
30 June
UofC chancellor donates money made from smokers to group fighting harm reduction for smokers and calls it pro-health; http://nyti.ms/c45FsqLet's graph this map against cigarette smuggling and black market sales; http://bit.ly/cZwR6e
Ontarii Health Promotion Minister uses candy colored paint on poster and inadvertently sends message paint good to eat; http://bit.ly/cTuzjH
"Can't think of more effective strategy to encourage youth to use tobacco than by referring to tobacco prod as candy." http://bit.ly/bfvEkk
29 June
Cdn health minister does not understand that following a regulation is the same as fulfilling its intent; http://bit.ly/9Zi2VEAmer Coll of Physicians encourage members to continue to think inside the box; call for more rather than better policy; http://bit.ly/aNhTSf
Prisoners banned from smoking to save guards from 2nd hand smoke; 2nd hand smoke from other guards ok; http://bit.ly/de0l0P
28 June
World cup match ties 2nd hand smoke for myocardial infarction finals; http://bit.ly/b0udmZResearch shows display bans not magic cure to youth smoking; what could be sweeter than mysterious but available; http://bit.ly/a8Y4Sm
Budget cuts to anti-smoking programs; newsflash: switching free and saves health costs rather than panders to politics; http://bit.ly/bV76Ba
AMA says ban unless smokers know exact ingredients e-cigarettes despite not knowing ingredients of cigarettes; http://bit.ly/cGoUX8
27 June
2nd hand exhaust kills, time to move roads 500 meters from any residences? Wait til California starts on this one; http://bit.ly/cnJts5Ambulance chasers happy that Champix not as safe as ecigs; http://bit.ly/cnJts5
Chris Snowdon's excellent post on lucre being offered to research the Emperor's New Science, perils of 3rd hand smoke; http://bit.ly/caY75P
26 June
NICE thinks smokers can't tell if they are smokers; encourages them to have test to find out; http://bit.ly/9lKlKAHealth Canada bans ecigs due to possible nicotine poisoning but makes no exception for zero nicotine ecigs; http://bit.ly/9XpVdS
25 June
Michigan smoking ban isolates smokers, increases liability for bar owners already suffering lost revenues; http://bit.ly/dx54fT24 June
How not to answer a question from the audience; the appeal to patriotism does not work or even make sense here; http://bit.ly/bRMUNFJacob Sullum, Raising cigarette taxes funds Al Qaeda; war on "unacceptable" substances fuels black market; http://bit.ly/auZ3cJ
Michael Siegel on the false claim that flavored cigarettes are gateway for teen smoking; http://bit.ly/bGw6BN
23 Jun
David Nutt on the harms of the precautionary principle; argument could be used in ref to ecigs and other thr; http://bit.ly/bvXEpgSmoking Kills Puppies; http://bit.ly/bvXEpg
Jacob Sullum on Banzhaf scared and ranting as ecigs design is used for cannabis delivery; http://bit.ly/bvXEpg
CVPhillips on smokeless tobacco junk science; http://bit.ly/cPm5T2
Beware the zeal of the convert; Jeffrey Wigand attacks tobacco harm reduction in NZ, probably no fun at parties either; http://bit.ly/dbjyrP
How bizarre for health conscious smokers to consider safer alternatives! http://bit.ly/b21oXx
22 June
Health organizations congratulate selves on sticking to quit or die approach; http://bit.ly/drKBxSCVPhillips on extremist junk science in latest Winickoff article in NEJM; http://bit.ly/9YuyLc
11 June Hypocrisy and Inconsistency in Modern-Day Tobacco Control Policy are Exposed
By Michael Siegel
9 June Good Conflicts of Interest vs. Bad Conflicts of Interest
By Jacob Sullum
9 June Dr. Winn’s Misinformation and Congressman Buyer’s Remorse
By Brad Rodu
22 June (pre-pub) DNA damage response induced by exposure of human lung adenocarcinoma cells to smoke from tobacco- and nicotine-free cigarettes.
By Jorgensen et al.in Cell Cycle
2 June Ifs, Ands and Butts Ex-smokers rave about e-cigarettes, but the FDA and antismoking groups want them snuffed out
By Ken Picard
2 June An Electronic Cigarette Ban: What would users do?
By James Dunworth
1 June FCTC Commentary #1: Implementation Guidelines for Articles 9 and 10 are Misguided and Not Based on Science
By Michael Siegel
26 May Blogging from the Tobacco Merchants Association Annual Meeting
By Michael Siegel
18 May Big Pharma versus Big Tobacco
By Christopher Snowdon
14 May Four policies to end the sale of cigarettes and smoking tobacco in New Zealand by 2020
By Murray Laugesen et al. (New Zealand Medical Journal)
27 April Why do anti-smoking groups oppose tobacco harm reduction?
By Christopher Snowdon
15 April Three Decades of Smokeless Tobacco Misinformation
By Brad Rodu
30 March The Federal Government Wants Population-Level Evidence But Refuses to Collect It
By Brad Rodu
26 March In Tobacco Giant’s Makeover, No Smoke, but Plenty of Fire
By David Kesmodel -Wall Street Journal
25 March Survey: Electronic Cigarette Users Sceptical of Anti-Smoking Claims
By James Dunworth
24 March Evidence against a gateway from smokeless tobacco use to smoking.
By Brad Rodu & Phillip Cole
9 March How Obama Can Quit Smoking
By Jeff Stier
9 February The Global Research Neglect of Unassisted Smoking Cessation: Causes and Consequences
By Simon Chapman & Ross McKenzie
5 February Smoking and Addiction - Fad and Fashion
By Stanton Peele
4 February Utah's Proposed Action on E-Cigarettes Shows the Absurdity of the Anti-Smoking Movement's Entitre Approach to Tobacco Policy
By Michael Siegel
29 January NICE Citizens Council report on harm reduction in smoking published
21 January FDA to Study Cigarette Ingredients to Determine if They Pose Any Danger; Now I Know Why People are Fed Up with Washington Bureaucracy
By Michael Siegel
19 January Federal Judge to FDA: E-Cigarettes Are Tobacco Products, Not Drugs or Devices
By Brad Rodu
6 January A pilot randomized study of smokeless tobacco use among smokers not interested in quitting: Changes in smoking behavior and readiness to quit.
By Carpenter & Gray (article discussed by Radu)
2009
28 December Tobaccoharmreduction.org letter to FDA on Tobacco Regulation.22 December Indications from Indy That Snus is a Viable Cigarette Substitute.
By Brad Rodu
21 December 2009 Lie of the Year Award and the Pants on Fire Runner-Up Awards for 2009.
By Michael Siegel
9 December Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Smokeless Tobacco: Much Ado About Snuffing.
By Brad Rodu
3 December Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) as potential tobacco harm reduction products: Results of an online survey of e-cigarette users.
By Heavner, Dunworth, et al.
- link here to E-cigarette page with participant comments).
3 November Quitting smoking is good but switching to low-risk nicotine products is usually better
By Carl V. Phillips
(press release)
15 October ASH-UK briefing on Electronic Cigarettes
16 September How to read articles about health and healthcare.
By Dr. Alicia White.
3 September Tobacco Company Lawsuit Against FDA Highlights Absurdity of FDA Tobacco Law
By Michael Siegel
26 August Minnesota to smokeless users: You're better off smokng!
By Brad Rodu
18 August Tobacco harm reduction gets the nod in Norway
By Brad Rodu
29 July Systematic review of the relation between smokeless tobacco and cancer in Europe and North America
By Lee & Hamling in BMC Medicine
29 July Electronic cigarette works
South African cessation study.
27 July Prominent Public Health Physicians and Tobacco Researchers Expose Double Standard in the FDA's Recent Study of Electronic Cigarettes and Challenge the FDA's Alarmist Attitude Toward the Devices
25 July Row breaks out over safety of e-cigarettes
New Zealand researchers are clashing with US health official
3 June A Public Health Disaster in the Making.
By John Calfee at The American
1 June Another incomprehensible ban.
By Iro Cyr at The Metropolitain
26 May Interview with Dr. Murray Laugesen.
With James Dunmore at E Cigarette Direct
15 May Interview with Dr. Adrian Payne.
With James Dunmore at E Cigarette Direct
5 May Dr. Phillips on electronic cigarettes
With James Ingram at Daily Planet
30 April Butt out, for once.
by Kevin Libin (Financial Post Magazine)
8 April Swedes accuse EU of snuffing out smokeless tobacco Associated Press.
1 April Have the tobacco police gone too far? by David Robson (New Scientist).
31 March An Interview With David Sweanor on the E-Cigarette, Tobacco harm reduction, snus and other issues
via E-Cigarette Direct
(31 March, 2009)
11 March The Four Commandments of the Anti-Smoking Movement: A Tribute to the Memory and Legacy of Gian Turci.
by Michael Siegel
2008
26 October The case for harm reduction for control of tobacco related illness and death. Resolution and white paper from the American Association of Public Health Physicians.21 September Great drug, shame about the delivery system. The Economist. (This older article on the benefits of nicotine was recently brought to our attention.)
June Saving European lives with smokeless tobacco: a clear choice, a difficult choice. Presentation to Members of the European Union by Carl V. Phillips.
(in Strasbourg)
23 May Switching to smokeless tobacco as a smoking cessation method: evidence from the 2000 National Health Interview Survey. by Brad Rodu & Carl V. Phillips.
Harm Reduction Journal
4 January Last gaspers. by Richard Tompkins.
Financial Times.
2007
October Harm reduction in nicotine addiction: A report by the Tobacco Advisory Group of the Royal College of Physicians.3 October Swedish Smokeless Tobacco Aims at U.S. Market.
New York Times.
16 September Snuffing out smokes.
Chicago Tribune.
13 September Imperial Tobacco Canada lives up to its corporate social responsibility promise. Imperial Press release.
13 September Snus test for River City: Capital picked for smoke-free tobacco test. Edmonton Sun.
3 July Should the Health Community Promote Smokeless Tobacco (Snus) as a Harm Reduction Measure? The PLOS Medicine Debate.
26 June Ethan Nadelmann on Cigarette Prohibition. Entertaining and thoughtful video presentation even if not directly related to our mission.
26 June Say what you mean: Is science harmed by the reckless use of ... metaphors? (From the Guardian Unlimited)
15 May IHRA's 50 Best Papers on Tobacco Harm Reduction.
15 May Snus commercial worth watching.
10 May Swedish smokeless tobacco less harmful to health than cigarettes, new research shows (From the International Herald Tribune Europe).
27 March Health - the case for smokeless tobacco. (article by Kevin Helliker at the Wall Street Journal)
10 March A smokeless alternative. (by Geoff Babirecki in Wales including some snus history).
9 March; Response to: "Tobacco-related disease mortality among men who switched from cigarettes to spit tobacco" (Henley et al.)
7 March New Zealand considering introducing smokeless tobacco products.
February Systematic review of the health effects of modified smokeless tobacco products. (A New Zealand Health Technology Assessment by Marita Broadstock).
February The de-marketing of smokeless tobacco for harm reduction. (by Michael L. Capella in the Journal of Consumer Marketing 2007 24(2):68-70).
2006
31 May No Illusions by Waldemar Ingdahl - TCS Daily.30 May Blowing smoke about tobacco by Phillip Alcabes - Washingpost.com.
30 May - Our website launch press release.