Public Health Research and Surveillance
New study finds:
– 6.1 million Europeans have quit smoking by switching to vaping
– 35.1% of current European vapers reported smoking cessation by switching to vaping
– 32.2% of current European vapers reported smoking reduction due to vaping
– just 0.08% of ever tobacco-related product users reported initiation with e-cigarettes
– just 1.3% of never smokers reported current use of e-cigarettes containing nicotine
– just 0.09% of never smokers reported current daily nicotine use
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.13506/abstract
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27338716
New Study: 6.1 million Europeans have quit smoking with the use of electronic cigarettes
www.ecigarette-research.org/research/index.php/research/research-2016/241-eurob
New Study: 6.1 Million Europeans Quit Smoking Thanks to Vaping
One of the most in-depth surveys ever finds bad news for vaping opponents
vaping.org/press-release/new-study-6-1-million-europeans-quit-smoking-thanks-vaping/
E-cig study in EU finds little use by non-smokers
www.journalnow.com/business/business_news/local/e-cig-study-in-eu-finds-little-use-by-non/article_b8646ca1-2783-5a84-acf5-689c234c8665.html
Melissa Vonder Haar – Study: Vaping helped 6.1 million Europeans quit smoking
Researchers call it the ‘highest rates of cessation ever observed’
www.cspdailynews.com/category-news/tobacco/articles/study-vaping-helped-61-million-europeans-quit-smoking
V2 survey of 300 US adult vapers finds:
– 62% vaped “to quit or abstain from smoking cigarettes”,
– 38% identified as dual users “to obtain nicotine when unable to smoke cigarettes”,
– 29% vaped because e-cigs are more “socially acceptable than smoking cigarettes”,
– 36% said they “preferred the flavors and taste over traditional tobacco cigarettes”,
www.csnews.com/product-categories/tobacco/trying-quit-smoking-no-1-reason-why-people-vape
One year randomized smoking cessation trial of e-cigarettes finds smokers who completely abstained from smoking showed steady progressive improvements in their exhaled breath measurements and symptoms scores (FeNO and eCO).
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eci.12651/abstract;jsessionid=6A249D9B4C792ED2AFA71AB40B84A823.f04t04
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27322745
Study finds health professionals in Flanders perceive the potential health risks of vaping as lower than those of smoking but do not recommend using e-cigarettes to their smoking patients
harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12954-016-0111-4
Riccardo Polosa responds to Bullen/Glantz debate on advising smokers about vaping
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27248625
THR Education
Marcus Munafo: Vaping is better than smoking – and ‘one of the best ways in 50 years of improving the world’s health’
www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3651898/Vaping-better-smoking-one-best-ways-50-years-improving-world-s-health.html
E-cigarettes ‘greatest opportunity’ to boost public health since 1960s, says Bristol University professor
www.bristolpost.co.uk/e-cigarettes-greatest-opportunity-to-boost-public-health-since-1960s-says-bristol-uni-professor/story-29428274-detail/story.html
Brad Rodu: Smokeless tobacco helps US Air Force achieve low smoking rate
rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com/2016/06/smokeless-tobacco-helps-us-air-force.html
AVCA group’s Vape It Forward programme (New Zealand, where e-cigs are banned)
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1606/S00106/avca-groups-vape-it-forward-programme.htm
More people turning to vaping as tobacco price rises (also from New Zealand)
www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=11666207
Harsh words for Hong Kong regulators on e-cigs (where e-cigs are banned)
harbourtimes.com/2016/06/23/hong-kong-may-be-left-behind-in-e-cigarette-debate/
Global Forum on Nicotine
Paul Barnes – GFN 2016: Evidence, Accountability and Transparency – Part 1
factsdomatter.co.uk/2016/06/gfn-2016-evidence-accountability-transparency-part-one/
Paul Barnes – GFN 2016: Evidence, Accountability and Transparency – Part 2
factsdomatter.co.uk/2016/06/gfn-2016-evidence-accountability-transparency-part-2/
Global Forum on Nicotine – Reducing Harm and Saving a Billion Lives in this Century
allafrica.com/stories/201606231272.html
A Billion Lives
Fergus Mason: A Billion Lives Review – We saw it! Did it Deliver?
vaping360.com/a-billion-lives-review-we-saw-it-did-it-deliver/
Dick Puddlecote: A review of A Billion Lives . . . . I didn’t hate it
dickpuddlecote.blogspot.ca/2016/06/a-review-of-billion-lives-i-didnt-hate.html
Vapor Business
E-cig sales continue to rebound with FDA regulations looming
www.journalnow.com/business/business_news/local/e-cig-sales-continue-to-rebound-with-fda-regulations-looming/article_30447b4f-60be-51fa-bfad-162625453d18.html
E-cigs are going tobacco free with synthetic nicotine
www.wired.com/2016/06/vaping-industry-wants-go-post-tobacco-synthetic-nicotine/
www.nextgenerationlabs.com/
FDA Deeming Ban
In Nicopure Labs v FDA, DC Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson schedules Nicopure Labs to file its motion for summary judgment by July 8, schedules Right to be Smoke-Free to file its motion for summary judgment by July 25 (but only on issues unique to its plaintiffs), schedules FDA to file its opposition to both motions by August 16, schedules hearing on motions for October 19
www.tobacco-on-trial.com/2016/06/26/docket-for-nicopure-labs-llc-v-fda-et-al-jun-23-26-2016/
Right To Be Smoke Free Coalition and E-Vapor Industry Trade Associations File Lawsuit Challenging FDA’s Deeming Regulation and the Tobacco Control Act
www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=dc37abd4-4145-442c-83cf-ef1553c57d6d
www.khlaw.com/Files/27053_FDA_Deeming_Rule_Complaint.pdf
E-cig coalition sues FDA to stop new regulations
www.journalnow.com/business/business_news/local/e-cig-coalition-sues-fda-to-stop-new-regulations/article_a81d1191-cc70-5e09-a991-9c9b427f3428.html
Fifth (and Largest) Lawsuit filed over ‘Deeming’ Regulations
www.cspdailynews.com/category-news/tobacco/articles/fifth-and-largest-lawsuit-filed-over-deeming-regulations
Mike Siegel: Four more lawsuits filed against FDA to block its e-cigarette deeming regulations
tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2016/06/four-more-lawsuits-filed-against-fda-to.html
SFATA’s Cynthia Cabrera: The FDA’s Deeming Rule on vapor products must be challenged
www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2016/06/30/the-fdas-deeming-rule-on-vapor-products-must-be-challenged/#10c336da3e0e
Mike Scarcella: E-cigarette advocates say FDA’s new rules are unlawful
www.nationallawjournal.com/home/id=1202760536904
Senator Ron Johnson pursues radio talker’s vaping cause
www.jsonline.com/watchdog/noquarter/ron-johnson-pursues-radio-talkers-vaping-cause-b99753569z1-384956641.html
FDA’s War on Vaping: Mike Krause interviews CASAA’s Julie Woessner and ATR’s Paul Blair about FDA’s Vapor Deeming Ban
www.youtube.com/watch?v=grUGZrdSIAk&feature=youtu.be&list=PLpuQSvvpsqhhVbHCPQzFmYqKoPDVUKoQc
Democrats are working with Big Tobacco and Big Pharma to choke off vaping industry
www.freedom.news/2016-06-27-democrats-are-working-with-big-tobacco-and-big-pharma-to-choke-off-vaping-industry.html
Brad Rodu: FDA tobacco regulation begins with deception
rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com/2016/06/fda-tobacco-regulation-begins-with.html
Vape shop owners say new federal rule could close them down (MA)
www.telegram.com/news/20160623/vape-shop-owners-say-new-federal-regulations-could-close-them-down
Vape shops set to go up in smoke: Two year deadline assumed to be end of an industry
www.pasoroblespress.com/v2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=12609
The fight against the Deeming Ban gets more Democratic support
Rep. Colin Peterson of Minnesota becomes the first to co-sponsor HR 2058
vaping360.com/fight-deeming-ban-gets-more-democratic-support/
FDLI to host “Introduction to E-Cigs and Vapor Products Law and Regulation Course” – July 8 in Los Angeles, CA
www.fdli.org/ecigsandvapor
Mr. Conley goes to Washington, educates Surgeon General Vivek Murthy about vaping
vaping360.com/always-be-prepared/
Charlie Minato: What happens to new cigars post-FDA?
halfwheel.com/ask-halfwheel-what-happens-to-new-cigars-post-fda/118439
FDA issues deeming webinar on its multi million dollar lottery to create Big Tobacco vapor, cigar & OTP industry monopolies: Timing and Tips for Submitting Premarket Review Applications for Newly Deemed Products
fda.yorkcast.com/webcast/Play/8f7c4c0b95f8454a83a58531b98b0cac1d
Ohio State press release touts FDA funded vapor prohibitionists (who advocated FDA’s unlawful 2009 e-cig ban and FDA’s vapor deeming ban) claiming dozens of truthful claims by vapor companies are “inaccurate and misleading” and “The study found that most manufacturer and retailer sites made at least one health-related claim, most often saying that they were less harmful than traditional cigarettes and didn’t carry the same second-hand-smoke risks,” urge FDA to strictly enforce MRTP clause (Section 911) banning vapor companies from truthfully saying vaping is less harmful than smoking.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160627125908.htm
www.ingentaconnect.com/content/trsg/trs/2016/00000002/00000003/art00005?token=00561f63241b87956fbe3f57e442f20672136762a4453494446243f25687627504541676249266d656cf44
FDA issues “FDA Advisory Committee Members and “Appearance Issues” to yet again falsely claim the agency’s committee appointees don’t have “conflicts of interest” (after FDA stacked its Tobacco Products Science Advisory Committee with individuals who have irreconcilable conflicts of interest (including many Big Pharma and DHHS funding recipients) because they promote FDA’s cigarette protecting anti-THR regulatory agenda.
blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/index.php/2016/06/fda-advisory-committee-members-and-appearance-issues/
Former Indiana Health Commissioner Richard Feldman touts FDA’s cigarette protecting Vapor Deeming Ban by repeating false claims and obfuscating, then acknowledges FDA’s rule may have “unintended consequences”, including destroying thousands of small vapor companies and creating a new e-cigarette cartel owned by Big Tobacco
www.southbendtribune.com/news/opinion/feldman-fda-rule-impacts-e-cigs/article_0feae89a-6407-53fc-a1aa-1c7a0327424f.html
CDC Lobbies For Vaping Bans
– by calling them Smoking Bans
Obama’s CDC and its funding recipient ANR now complain that few states have enacted workplace smoking bans (since Obama’s DHHS, ANR and Big Pharma shills declared War on Vaping in 2009/10), but protect cigarettes by lying about smokefree vaping and by claiming smokefree workplace laws should also ban vaping “It is important for ENDS to be included in state and local smoke-free laws because indoor use of ENDS can expose nonusers to aerosolized nicotine and other harmful constituents, complicate smoke-free enforcement, and impact the social acceptability of tobacco use (2,8).”
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/mm6524a4.htm#contribAff
CDC press releases hype study confirming that few smokefree laws have been enacted since Obama’s DHHS declared War on Vaping in 2009, but fail to acknowledge that fact
www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2016/p0623-smoke-free-laws.html
www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/southeastern-states-not-protected-by-comprehensive-smoke-free-laws-300289491.html
consumer.healthday.com/cancer-information-5/misc-tobacco-health-news-666/ok-to-light-up-in-many-areas-of-the-south-cdc-says-712240.html
www.medpagetoday.com/pulmonology/smoking/58741
www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/southern-states-lagging-in-tough-smoking-bans-cdc-says/article_56691b50-6b6e-50a6-8ec4-d6c9fd10d565.html
www.hcplive.com/medical-news/progress-stalls-in-smoking-bans
After lobbying FDA to ban and demonize lifesaving vapor products since 2009, Big Pharma funded CTFK and Legacy lies initiative now advocate enactment of smokefree workplace laws
www.tobaccofreekids.org/press_releases/post/2016_06_23_cdc
truthinitiative.org/news/cdc-highlights-need-comprehensive-smoke-free-policies
truthinitiative.org/news/cdc-report-shows-states-need-pick-pace-tobacco-control
DHHS funded UNC study finds most Americans don’t know there are many harmful constituents in cigarette smoke (after Obama’s DHHS and many of its funding recipients deceived the public to believe vaping is as harmful as cigarette smoking since 2009)
bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-016-3151-5
www.medicaldaily.com/smoking-cigarettes-chemicals-cigarette-smoke-390547
medicalxpress.com/news/2016-06-youre-dont.html
www.inquisitr.com/3245097/whats-in-your-cigarettes-there-are-over-7000-chemicals-that-you-dont-know-about/
Other Vaping Bans
California Assembly Committee approves bill (SB 1333) that would ban outdoor vaping and smoking at state parks and beaches
lgbtweekly.com/2016/06/29/smoking-at-california-state-beaches-and-parks-on-way-to-becoming-history/
Study by vaping opponents found customers vaped in half of vape shops in North Dakota (despite state’s cigarette protecting ban on vaping in all workplaces), authors failed to inquire about any positive effects vaping has had on the vapers they spied upon
tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2016/06/24/tobaccocontrol-2015-052888.abstract
British Medical Association keeps lying about vaping to lobby for cigarette protecting vaping bans (UK)
www.ibtimes.co.uk/bma-calls-ban-e-cigarette-use-public-places-1566974
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/23/ban-e-cigarettes-in-bars-and-restaurants-leading-doctors-say/
www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/ban-the-use-of-e-cigarettes-in-public-demand-doctors-nb97hr9rn
Mandating More Harmful Low Nicotine Cigarettes
DHHS funded study finds increased cigarette consumption among smokers assigned low nicotine cigarettes, finds increased puffing among smokers assigned very low nicotine cigarettes; but authors claim very low nicotine cigarettes may reduce harm for smokers
www.futurity.org/nicotine-smoking-1190092-2/
dx.doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-15-1088
cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/early/2016/06/16/1055-9965.EPI-15-1088
22nd Century touts DHHS funded junk study claiming very low nicotine cigarettes reduce smoking and alcohol use
www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160628005078/en/22nd-Century%E2%80%99s-Nicotine-Cigarettes-Reduce-Smoking-Reduced
Banning Retail Tobacco Displays
DHHS funded RAND researchers claim removal of retail tobacco displays reduced purported “intentions to smoke” by teens to advocate for unconstitutional (in the US) ban on retail tobacco displays
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03z7xkz
ObamaCare
Article delineates how ObamaCare financially rewards Big Pharma, hawks ineffective and less than safe tobacco cessation drugs, and forces taxpayers and healthcare insurance policy holders to subsidize the costs
www.groundreport.com/obamacare-supports-smoke-free-healthy-lifestyle/
Obama / Biden Cancer Moonshot
Hypocritical Obama Administration creates White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force (after White House approved FDA’s two cigarette protecting vapor product bans since 2009 even though cigarette smoking causes two thirds of all preventable cancer deaths)
www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/01/28/memorandum-white-house-cancer-moonshot-task-force?s_cid=govD_CancerNewsJune23_01
FDA Commissioner Robert Califf praises Obama/Biden pie-in-the-sky Cancer Moonshot (after Califf protected the leading cause of preventable cancer deaths (i.e. cigarettes) by imposing FDA’s Vapor Deeming Ban), creates FDA Oncology Center of Excellence (that will further increase cancer treatment costs)
www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm509063.htm
blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/index.php/2016/06/leveraging-the-power-of-collaboration-fdas-new-oncology-center-of-excellence/
Indiana E-liquid Monopoly Law
Indiana Vaping Rules Called Onerous & Unfair (GoodCat vapor company sues to block Indiana vapor monopoly law)
www.courthousenews.com/2016/06/22/indiana-vaping-rules-called-onerous-unfair.htm
Jim McDonald: Will Corruption Kill Vaping in Indiana?
vaping360.com/will-corruption-kill-vaping-indiana/
California Bill Against Vapor Sales
– restricts tobacco and vapor product sales to adult only retail stores
CA bill to ban most retailers from selling tobacco or vapor products (SB 1400) dies in Assembly Committee on Business and Professions
www.cstoredecisions.com/2016/06/29/attempt-limit-tobacco-sales-adult-stores-california-thwarted/
halfwheel.com/california-bill-limiting-tobacco-sales-dies-in-house/119288
www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article86439072.html
State Vapor Regulation
Washington State House Commerce and Gaming Committee holds hearing on vapor products (Big Pharma shills continue to falsely claim e-cigs harm cigarette smokers)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xrjo2VAREA
NCPPR’s Jeff Stier testifies about e-cigarettes before the Washington State House Commerce and Gaming Committee
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyT0Vh8tfWU&feature=youtu.be
Taxation
PA House approves $31.55 billion budget spending bill that House Majority Leader Dave Reed says will be paid for by higher taxes on tobacco products; different news stories claim (citing different or anonymous sources) cigarette tax would increase by $1/pack, that taxes would be imposed on e-cigarettes and smokeless tobacco, but not cigars
www.pennlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/06/house_passes_316_billion_spend.html#incart_river_index
www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/mc-pa-budget-house-vote-20160628-story.html
www.pennlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/06/first-draft_budget_gets_house.html
fox43.com/2016/06/28/pa-house-passes-budget-gov-wolf-remains-skeptical/
www.politicspa.com/pa-bgt-house-passes-31-55-billion-budget/76539/
www.centredaily.com/news/state/pennsylvania/article86214572.html
triblive.com/state/pennsylvania/10700436-74/budget-tax-taxes
PA Senate ups House budget to $31.6 billion, how to pay for it is next
www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/morning_roundup/2016/06/pennsylvania-budget-fy17-senate-education-31-6-bil.html
www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/mc-pa-legislature-senate-budget-20160629-story.html
www.post-gazette.com/news/state/2016/06/29/Pennsylvania-House-OKs-budget-battle-looms-on-how-to-pay-for-it/stories/201606290121
www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20160629_Pa__House_OKs_budget__battle_looms_on_how_to_pay_for_it.html
Smokefree Pennsylvania urges PA General Assembly to hike cigarette tax, but to NOT tax vapor or smokeless
www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/threads/smokefree-pa-urges-general-assembly-to-hike-cigarette-tax-but-to-not-tax-vapor-or-smokeless.751795/
CASAA asks PA vapers to urge PA legislators to reject Gov. Wolf’s proposed 40% tax on vapor products
blog.casaa.org/2016/05/pa-take-action-to-oppose-40-percent.html
Poland may tax e-cigarettes
www.warsawvoice.pl/WVpage/pages/article.php/35819/news
Steve Greenhut: State officials addicted to nicotine taxes (California)
www.ocregister.com/articles/tobacco-720549-tax-smoking.html
FDA/NCI, CA DPH and Big Pharma funded anti tobacco activists advocate raising prices of all tobacco products beyond taxation, unethically conflate all tobacco products with deadly cigarettes, fail to acknowledge the exponential differences in product risks and benefits, or healthcare costs imposed or saved by use of different tobacco products.
tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/25/4/377.full
Smokeless Tobacco Bans
Article on smokeless bans in baseball repeats false fear mongering claims about very low risk smokeless tobacco to promote more bans and stigmatization of users
www.timesheraldonline.com/sports/20160625/front-and-center-smokeless-tobacco-still-a-part-of-baseball-but-more-awareness-in-recent-years
Minimum Age Laws
Portland (Maine) increase minimum age for sale of lifesaving vapor products, deadly cigarettes and low risk OTP to 21
www.pressherald.com/2016/06/20/portland-becomes-first-in-maine-to-raise-minimum-age-to-buy-tobacco/
Cortland County (NY) rejects bill to raise minimum age to 21 for tobacco and vapor sales
halfwheel.com/cortland-county-n-y-wont-raise-tobacco-purchase-age/118899
Brexit
ill vapers decide the EU referendum?
(Pre-vote poll found 49% of UK vapers support Brexit, 40% want to remain in EU)
blog.vapeclub.co.uk/will-vapers-decide-the-eu-referendum/
Barnaby Page: UK vapers tempted by Brexit, but devil lurks in details
ecigintelligence.com/uk-vapers-tempted-by-brexit-but-devil-lurks-in-details/
US tobacco stocks become safe havens in post-Brexit markets
www.journalnow.com/business/business_news/local/tobacco-stocks-become-safe-havens-in-post-brexit-markets/article_145616dd-5aa0-5c98-abe3-6f98a2887924.html
www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-tobacco-idUSKCN0ZA300
Advertising Association urges UK government to reverse its previous ban on e-cig advertising (to comply with EU TPD) now that UK voted to leave the EU)
www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/aa-urges-reverse-e-cigarette-ad-ban-brexit/1400344#
E-cigarette industry body seeks government meeting to changes to EU vaping regulations in the wake of Brexit vote
www.cityam.com/244256/e-cigarette-industry-body-seeks-government-meeting-changes
Clive Bates: The EU referendum in 10 provocations (Brexit)
www.clivebates.com/?p=4208
Clive Bates: Thinking of a Brexit vote? Consider these questions
www.clivebates.com/?p=4227
Vapor Advertising Restrictions
UK Advertising Standards Association exonerates Blu e-cig ad after 13 puritans filed complaints
www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2016/6/Fontem-Ventures-BV/SHP_ADJ_340739.aspx?utm_source=ASA%20and%20CAP%20Master%20list&utm_campaign=09892bf6c1-Weekly%20Rulings%2029%20Jun29/6/16%209:52%20AM&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_436cabcb1d-09892bf6c1-71234665#.V3VQRNQrLMr
Watchdog refuses to stub out ‘degrading’ e-cig ad
www.decisionmarketing.co.uk/news/watchdog-refuses-to-stub-out-degrading-e-cig-ad
Plain Packaging
NZ government to implement plain cigarette packaging law (despite no evidence Australia’s law reduced smoking or cigarette consumption), Imperial threatens to sue
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1606/S00281/on-the-nation-plain-packaging-debate.htm
www.stuff.co.nz/business/81461948/nz-cigarette-plain-packaging-law-would-see-imperial-tobacco-sue-for-compensation
www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/tobacco-companys-bid-stop-plain-cigarette-packaging-falls-deaf-ears
Stigmatizing Smokers (and Vapers)
After stigmatizing smokers and vapers by repeatedly demonizing tobacco and vapor companies, products and users, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine runs editorial criticizing the stigmatization of smokers
www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(16)30155-2/fulltext
Abstinence Only Moralism
WHO teen tobacco use survey report deceitfully conflates very low risk smokeless tobacco and low risk OTP with deadly cigarettes, conflates any use of any tobacco product in past-30-days with daily cigarette smoking, states goal is to achieve a “tobacco-free future” (instead of reducing cigarette smoking, lung disease, heart disease or COPD)
iris.wpro.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665.1/13297/9789290617662_eng.pdf
www.rappler.com/science-nature/life-health/137994-global-youth-tobacco-survey-2016
More Junk Science, Propaganda and Lies
Mike Siegel: Detroit Wayne County Mental Health Authority issues fraudulent public statements on risks of cigarette smoking
tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2016/06/detroit-wayne-county-mental-health_28.html
North Dakota funded vaping prohibitionist Jeanne Prom falsely claims there’s no evidence vaping is less harmful than smoking cigarettes, lies about nicotine risks to scare
bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/study-nicotine-labeling-on-e-cigarettes-in-north-dakota-often/article_2bc0c791-9c65-5ebd-ae4e-af8809fd792d.html
Vermont funded vaping propagandist Ann Gilbert repeats many false fear mongering claims about lifesaving vapor products, claims increased e-cig use that corresponded with (i.e. caused) record decline in teen smoking is “one step forward, two steps back.”
www.timesargus.com/article/20160620/NEWS01/160629974
Cal State Fullerton’s Joshua Yang repeats lies about vaping to touts CA anti vaping laws
news.fullerton.edu/2016sp/New-Smoking-Age.aspx
Jim McDonald – Experts: Teen Vaping Gateway Study is Meaningless
Pediatrics authors “misinterpret their own findings”
vaping360.com/experts-teen-vaping-gateway-study-meaningless/
Canadian Cancer Society protects cigarettes by manufacturing fear mongering anti-vaping propaganda that denies and contradicts scientific and empirical evidence
www.theprovince.com/health/canadian%20cancer%20society%20tells%20teens%20think%20twice%20about%20vaping/12007358/story.html
vancouver.24hrs.ca/2016/06/21/campaign-targets-youth-vaping
www.ourfightforlife.ca/advocate/thinkbeforeyouvape
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y53PgO3nx5U
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfXikB5QK-0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPWg9V1hEt8
twitter.com/hashtag/thinkbeforeyouvape?src=hash
twitter.com/cancersocietybc
twitter.com/cancersocietybc/status/745368258031792128
FDA/NCI funded UNC activists misrepresent findings of their flawed and inapplicable cell study atwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27288488#cm27288488_16318
that Zvi Herzig explains were likely due to nicotine in e-cig aerosol when exhaling via the nose, which is unlikely to cause harm.
FDA funded UNC press release and FDA funded UNC activists grossly misrepresent their study findings of flawed and inapplicable study to generate fear mongering news headlines and articles, promote FDA vapor deeming ban and vaping bans;
UK tabloid repeats false claims as facts
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160620141317.htm
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/uonc-euc062016.php
www.medpagetoday.com/pulmonology/smoking/58742
www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/e-cigarettes-increase-risk-infection-8252698
www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3661741/E-cigarettes-raise-risk-infection-damaging-hundreds-genes-immune-system.html
UCLA press release headline falsely misrepresents findings of inapplicable cell study to claim study found e-cig vapors “could be toxic to oral cavity” to confuse and scare, UK tabloid repeats false fear mongering claims as facts
newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/e-cigarette-vapors-could-be-toxic-to-oral-cavity-ucla-study-finds
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0154447
www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3663839/E-cigarettes-toxic-mouth-Vaping-kills-cells-oral-cavity-raising-risk-disease.html
Authors of yet another inapplicable cell study falsely claiming e-cig aerosol is toxic (the word “toxic” appears at least four dozen times in the article to confuse and scare readers).
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0157337
Bill Godshall
Executive Director
Smokefree Pennsylvania
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