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Tobacco Control has morphed into a crusade intent on demonizing both tobacco users and the industry supplying them. This blog examines and comments on scientific issues surrounding tobacco policies - and fallacies.
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Two weeks ago I described a flawed mortality study by National Cancer Institute staff that led to a correction but no recognition for o ..read more
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1M ago
Responding to a petition from the FDA, the Supreme Court agreed to review the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in the Triton case ..read more
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1M ago
Federal officials, most notably at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, continue to be remarkably vague about the cause of ..read more
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2M ago
Some published articles are so flawed that they deserve retraction. A case in point is the Pediatrics article by University of ..read more
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2M ago
In the previous post I described fatal flaws in a study by University of California San Francisco’s Benjamin W. Chaffee, Shannon Lea ..read more
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3M ago
For years we have seen a battle over the banning of menthol cigarettes. On one side are prohibitionists, who believe that society’s il ..read more
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5M ago
I recently read on X (Twitter) a tribute to the book, “A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper,” by John Allen Paulos. The author is a ..read more
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5M ago
I recently participated in a panel discussion about tobacco harm reduction (THR) at the Tobacco Merchants Association meeting. While a ..read more
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5M ago
The U.S. desperately needs tobacco harm reduction, starting with reducing the harm from the pronouncements of federal officials. Case ..read more
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5M ago
Earlier this year, Medscape, which describes itself as “the leading online global destination for physicians and healthcare professional ..read more