Tobacco Truth
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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.
Tobacco Truth
1w ago
Most health professionals are familiar with Medscape , a free resource that describes itself as “the leading online global destination f ..read more
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1w ago
Smokers in Japan consumed 92.4 billion cigarettes in 2023 -- less than half as many as they did in 2014. Since vapor products are illega ..read more
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2w ago
Over the years, I have documented cases in which my colleague and I exposed fatal errors in published articles about smoke-free products ..read more
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1M ago
The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) is a valuable federal resource for population-level research on tobacco and other sub ..read more
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1M ago
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) just introduced a program to discourage underage drinking, aimed specific ..read more
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1M ago
My readers know that I have followed the results of the annual Monitoring the Future Survey (MTF) for many years, focusing on alcohol, m ..read more
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2M ago
An article in the LA Times January 2 nd bemoaned the “thousands of new flavored products…pouring into the country from China.” It cl ..read more
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2M ago
Last year, Margarete Kulik and Stanton Glantz (“KG”) proclaimed in Tobacco Control that there is no public health basis for telling ..read more
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2M ago
After announcing its intention to ban menthol cigarettes two years ago, the FDA has finally submitted its final rule to the Office of Ma ..read more
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2M ago
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons in 2015 finalized a rule prohibiting inmate “possession of smoking apparatus and tobacco in any form ..read more