Godshall Chronicles 12/2/16

US DHHS

US Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) nominated for DHHS secretary, voted against 2009 Tobacco Control Act (sponsored/lobbied for by Altria and Big Pharma to protect deadly cigarettes and ineffective smoking cessation drugs from market competition by low risk smokefree tobacco/nicotine alternatives, including smokeless tobacco, newly deemed vapor products and dissolvables) that was deceptively touted as a child and public health protection bill. www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/11/28/502566553/trump-chooses-rep-tom-price-an-obamacare-foe-to-run-hhs

Pharma Intelligence   The Price is right: HHS Transition and Next FDA Commissioner Talk (discussion on possible next FDA Commissioner at 15:45) w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/295575017

Smoking guns: Trump s transition appointments signal his plans to attack regulations ca.news.yahoo.com/smoking-guns-trumps-transition-appointments-signal-his-plans-to-attack-regulations-195948461.html

Sheila Kaplan: Could the FDA be dismantled under Trump? www.statnews.com/2016/11/22/fda-donald-trump/

Charlie Minato: Trump taps cigar friendly Congressman for Health and Human Services head halfwheel.com/trump-taps-cigar-friendly-congressman-health-human-services-head/134528

Health nominee Price may find that changing HHS isn t easy www.usnews.com/news/news/articles/2016-11-29/health-nominee-price-may-find-that-changing-hhs-isnt-easy

FDA

US Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) sends letter to FDA Commissioner Robert Califf urging the agency to cease implementation of the Deeming Regulation. www.hsgac.senate.gov/media/majority-media/johnson-asks-obama-administration-to-cease-implementing-regulations-that-will-likely-be-repealed-

US Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) thanks Vapers for helping him get reelected www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm6nZDlzZk0&feature=youtu.be

AVA   Senator warns FDA: Congress could stop industry-killing vaping regs vaping.org/press-release/senator-warns-fda-congress-stop-industry-killing-vaping-regs/

Senator warns FDA that GOP will target e-cig regulations www.journalnow.com/business/business_news/local/senator-warns-fda-that-gop-will-target-e-cig-regulations/article_e373e5aa-9fe6-5db3-8f08-be2d117dfc64.html

Mike Siegel: Senator Johnson calls on FDA to halt implementation of e-cigarette deeming regulations pending the new administration tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2016/11/senator-johnson-calls-on-fda-to-halt.html

ATR petitions US Congress and Donald Trump to repeal FDA s Deeming Regulation in the first 100 days of the new Administration www.atr.org/repealfdaregs

Veterans are slamming the FDA s plan to smother vaping industry dailycaller.com/2016/11/25/veterans-are-slamming-the-fdas-plan-to-smother-vaping-industry/

MSA s Don Burke: The impact of FDA Deeming Regulations (at 10/2016 NACS Show) MSA study estimates FDA s Deeming Regulation will affect (i.e. likely ban) 100% of vapor products and 49% of cigars, but will reduce cigarette sales by just 4%. www.nacsonline.com/NACSShow/Explore/EducationalSessions/Documents/10.20.16_ImpactOfFDA.pdf

As anticipated, the vapor category will virtually be eliminated by the Regulations if the Regulations stand as currently written and there is no action by the courts or manufacturers  (page 46) www.cspdailynews.com/category-news/tobacco/articles/deeming-vs-cigarettes-winner#page=0

AEI s Sally Satel interviews Clive Bates: vaping, regulation, FDA, UK approach, risk perceptions, health arguments (48m) www.youtube.com/watch?v=E22TO1xbJOU

Clive Bates: four basic arguments against vaping and what’s wrong with them (8m) www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTI5IiuIkQM

Clive Bates: what is the FDA doing and why it is so misguided? (8m) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV3Lupn1xw4

Interview on FDA, US situation with Patricia Kovacevic of Nicopure Labs, the company challenging FDA in court (27m) www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxHaY5QjI7Y

Nicopure Labs  Patricia Kovacevic: FDA Deeming Rule Update (discusses FDA s Guidance requiring manufacturers of vapor products to register all of their products with the agency by December 31, 2016. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4TlX7FV6oQ

Citizens Against Government Waste endorse low risk smokefree alternatives for smokers, criticize FDA deeming regulation for denying smokers legal access. www.cagw.org/media/wastewatcher/tobacco-harm-reduction-big-league-healthcare-savings

Convenience stores continue lobbying for Cole bill to change 2007 grandfather date www.cstoredecisions.com/2016/11/23/e-cigs-critical-juncture/

FDA removes threshold restrictions for tobacco product applications halfwheel.com/fda-removes-threshold-restrictions-for-tobacco-product-applications/133764

Charlie Minato: FDA begins to collect user fees on those who import cigars halfwheel.com/fda-begins-collect-user-fees/134540

FDA Trade Alert: FDA issues new import data requirements blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/index.php/2016/11/trade-alert-fda-issues-new-import-data-requirements/

FDA promotes ineffective GASO, tells smokers to use ineffective and less than safe FDA approved drugs to quit smoking (and to not use vapor products) www.fda.gov/TobaccoProducts/NewsEvents/ucm529397.htm

More DHHS

New DHHS funded NCCN smoking cessation guidelines (pages 1460-61) opposes cancer patients who smoke switching to vapor products (falsely claims insufficient evidence that vaping helps smokers quit, but referenced only 5 studies) www.scribd.com/document/331081523/NCCN-Tobacco

drive.google.com/file/d/0B_pRaTigMHVTbVg2anlVdGlOSzA/view

www.jnccn.org/content/14/11/1430.abstract

Pasadena (CA) Health Dept spends $1.5 million CDC grant insulting and stigmatizing vapers, deceitfully conflate lifesaving vapor products with deadly cigarettes www.pasadenaindependent.com/news/pasadena-health-dept-starts-cdc-funded-anti-menthol-anti-tobacco-products-campaign/

www.pasadenastarnews.com/health/20161116/pasadena-will-spend-15m-to-combat-smoking-among-teens-african-americans

Mike Siegel: CDC-funded Pasadena Health Department campaign calls vapers  stupid sheep  tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2016/11/cdc-funded-pasadena-health-department.html

Big Pharma financed CTFK complains 21st Century Cures Act would cut 30% of funding for Prevention and Public Health Fund, including  programs to reduce tobacco use, the nation s No. 1 cause of preventable death.   But while cigarette smoking has been the leading cause of preventable death in the US for many decades, abstinence-only CTFK and Obama s DHHS have unethically and deceitfully conflated lifesaving vapor products, very low risk smokeless tobacco, and low risk OTP with deadly cigarettes. www.tobaccofreekids.org/press_releases/post/2016_11_30_congress

CDC MMWR Announcement: National Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Awareness Month   November 2016 fails to even mention that cigarette smoking causes the vast majority of COPD, focuses instead on patient access to pulmonologists www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/mm6545a8.htm?s_cid=mm6545a8_e

Obama s FDA issues consumer warning  Secondhand Smoke (and Third-Hand) May Be Making Your Pet Sick  (despite no evidence trace levels of 3rd hand smoke harm humans or pets) that provides ZERO information for removing trace levels of 3rd hand smoke www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm530220.htm

thehill.com/regulation/healthcare/308078-fda-smoking-exposure-kills-dogs-cats

US SG Vivek Murthy issues report  Facing Addiction  that focuses on illegal drugs and alcohol (but not Big Pharma drugs), claims chronic users have brain disease, promotes abstinence-only treatments, falsely claims  Since 1964, surgeons general have produced major reports on tobacco use  (as SG reports since 1964 focused on cigarette smoking) www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/landmark-report-by-surgeon-general-calls-drug-crisis-a-moral-test-for-america/2016/11/16/4214bf2a-ac49-11e6-977a-1030f822fc35_story.html

DOT

CEI v DOT: Petitioners submit final opening brief www.tobacco-on-trial.com/2016/11/26/cei-v-dot-final-opening-brief-of-petitioners-nov-22-2016/

www.tobacco-on-trial.com/wp-content/uploaded/2016/11/2016-11-22-cei-final-ope-brief1-74.pdf

CEI v DOT: Petitioners submit final reply brief www.tobacco-on-trial.com/2016/11/26/cei-v-dot-final-reply-brief-of-petitioners-nov-22-2016/

www.tobacco-on-trial.com/wp-content/uploaded/2016/11/2016-11-22-cei-final-reply-brief.pdf

CEI v DOT: In court brief, DOT claims  smoking  doesn t require combustion, and includes smokefree vaping (to defend DOT s redefining  smoking  to ban airline vaping) www.tobacco-on-trial.com/2016/11/28/cei-v-dot-brief-for-respondents-nov-28-2016/

www.tobacco-on-trial.com/wp-content/uploaded/2016/11/2016-11-28-cei-respondents-brief.pdf

HUD Smoking Ban

HUD issues final rule banning smoking (but not vaping) within 25 feet of public housing portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/press/press_releases_media_advisories/2016/HUDNo_16-184

www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/nyregion/us-will-ban-smoking-in-public-housing-nationwide.html

www.wnyc.org/story/the-brian-lehrer-show-2016-12-02/

www.nj.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2016/11/smoking_ban_in_public_housing.html

HUD:  Unlike with 22 products that involve burning of substances, there is little evidence that ENDS significantly increases fire risks, and there is no conclusive evidence that the vapors emitted by ENDS cause damage to the units themselves. Therefore, prohibiting ENDS will not necessarily reduce the risk of catastrophic fires or maintenance costs for PHAs, and this rule does not prohibit the use of ENDS.  portal.hud.gov/hudportal/documents/huddoc?id=smokefreephfinalrule.pdf

Big Pharma financed CTFK criticizes HUD for not banning vaping in public housing www.tobaccofreekids.org/press_releases/post/2016_11_30_children_hud

US Military

US Naval hospital promotes ineffective GASO by demonizing lifesaving vapor products www.militaryspot.com/news/e-cigarettes-burning-topic-naval-hospital-bremertons-great-american-smoke

Tobacco/Vapor Industry

Jonathan Fell: How does the tobacco industry see its future? (Godshall comments on tobacco company lobbying for FDA s vapor ban, and for state vapor taxes/regulation) www.clivebates.com/?p=4503

Philip Morris looks beyond cigarettes with alternative products; CEO says cigarette production could end someday (if smokers switch to low risk alternatives) www.reuters.com/article/us-pmi-iqos-uk-idUSKBN13P0LU

www.wsj.com/articles/philip-morris-could-end-traditional-cigarette-production-ceo-says-1480513425

In response to Philip Morris  launch of new low risk cigarette alternative iQOS in many  countries, THR confused ASH UK s Deborah Arnott (who lobbied MHRA to ban vapor products before acknowledging the many health benefits of vaping) conflates iQOS with deadly cigarettes, claims  iQOS, like tobacco, need tough regulation , criticizes PMI for making low risk alternative available and affordable for smokers. www.bbc.com/news/business-38152297

www.theguardian.com/business/2016/nov/30/philip-morris-stop-selling-cigarettes-alternative-iqos

www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3986058/Is-cigarette-DOESN-T-kill-Firm-claims-contains-90-toxins-delivers-nicotine-hit.html

www.thesun.co.uk/living/2298984/tobacco-giant-launches-new-healthy-cigarette-which-heats-rather-than-burns-tobacco/

Anti-tobacco extremist Marita Hefler denounces PMI for marketing low risk alternative to cigarette smokers, criticizes health advocates for supporting THR products and policies blogs.bmj.com/tc/2016/12/01/is-philip-morris-claim-it-wants-to-phase-out-conventional-cigarettes-credible/

tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/25/6/612.full.pdf+html

Will regulatory challenges hold back Philip Morris reduced risk strategy? www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2016/11/23/will-regulatory-challenges-hold-back-philip-morris-reduced-risk-strategy.html

iQOS vs iFuse: Is the e-cig world big enough for two big brands? www.fool.com/investing/2016/11/26/iqos-vs-ifuse-who-is-doing-next-gen-electronic-cig.aspx

Heat-not-burn alternatives marketed to smokers in Japan asia.nikkei.com/Business/Trends/Heated-cigarettes-negate-tobacco-s-worst-effects

BAT opens Milan (Italy) outlet and launches vaping device www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/news/british-american-tobacco-opens-milan-outlet-and-launches-vaping-device-35258970.html

BAT subsidiary asks NZ Medsafe to approve sales of Voke as a medicine www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/tobacco-giant-wants-register-nicotine-inhaler-in-new-zealand

THR and tobacco industry opponents Ross MacKenzie and Benjamin Hawkins double down by continuing to deny vapor products help people quit smoking, demonize tobacco companies for marketing low risk alternatives (and even NRT products) to cigarette smokers, claim doing so can help  renormalisation of the industry theconversation.com/how-e-cigarettes-could-health-wash-the-tobacco-industry-68428

E-cigs are going tobacco-free with synthetic nicotine (highlights Next Generation Labs) www.wired.com/2016/06/vaping-industry-wants-go-post-tobacco-synthetic-nicotine/

Vapor sales bans expand international sales of highly concentrated (i.e. dangerous) nicotine e-liquid  (including non tobacco derived nicotine) directly to consumers, who DIY mix it with PG/VG and flavorings. www.hiliq.com/unflavored-100mg-ml-ntn-non-tobacco-nicotine-base/?en

St. Helens (UK) rugby team renames Langtree Park  Totally Wicked Stadium  www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyleague/article-3987188/St-Helens-rename-Langtree-Park-Totally-Wicked-Stadium-deal-e-cigarette-company.html

www.thesun.co.uk/sport/rugbyleague/2295297/st-helens-to-rename-their-ground-from-langtree-park-to-the-totally-wicked-stadium-after-latest-sponsorship-deal/

Next Generation Nicotine Delivery conference, London, November 16-17 www.arena-international.com/nextgennicotine/programme/

THR Education and Advocacy

Reason s Julian Morris   keeping up with new technologies www.nacsonline.com/NACSShow/Explore/EducationalSessions/Documents/10.20.16_ImpactOfFDA.pdf

Clive Bates Video Collection www.clivebates.com/?page_id=4515

E-Cigarettes: Reducing the harm of smoking (new report by THR advocates from Australia and New Zealand calls for life-saving reforms to help smokers quit) d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/taxpayers/pages/481/attachments/original/1480061147/Vaping_Report_v_5_(online).pdf?1480061147

www.taxpayers.org.nz/e-cigs_report

www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1611/S00146/report-calls-for-life-saving-reforms-to-help-smokers-quit.htm

Jacob Sullum: Vaping is a gateway to quitting smoking www.ocala.com/opinion/20161116/sullum-vaping-is-gateway-to-quitting

Kip Viscusi: Do we know how risky e-cigarettes are? (discusses study finding public inaccurately believes vaping is far more harmful than scientific evidence finds) www.regblog.org/2016/11/14/viscusi-risky-e-cigarettes/

E-cigaretteReviewsUK interviews e-cig advocate David Sweanor www.e-cigarettereviewsuk.co.uk/interview-renowned-professor-e-cig-advocate-david-sweanor/

Taxation

In addition to paying a 66% vapor product tax, all California vapor vendors must obtain an annual license costing $265/year by January 1, 2017 (to continue legal sales in state). www.mpacorn.com/news/2016-11-25/Community/New_state_licensing_rules_in_effect_for_ecigarette.html

Some fear California s tax on e-cigarettes may deter smokers Ken Warner and AVA s Greg Conley criticize CA s cigarette protecting vapor tax www.mercedsunstar.com/news/article117236703.html

New Nicotine Alliance issues report, urges no taxes on low risk nicotine products in EU Tobacco Excise Directive nnalliance.org/activities/news/145-eu-tax-policy-harmful-to-health-our-briefing

nnalliance.org/images/documents/Tobacco-Excise-Directive-Briefing—161129-Final.pdf

www.clivebates.com/documents/NNA-TaxBriefing2016.pdf

Clive Bates: To tax or not to tax? Response to EU on taxing vaping and other reduced risk products? www.clivebates.com/?p=4529

Cigarette smugglers take advantage of Missouri s low tax rate (and stupidity of CTFK, ACS, AHA, ALA, etc. for opposing two recently defeated cigarette tax hikes in MO). fox2now.com/2016/11/21/cigarette-smugglers-taking-advantage-of-missouris-low-tax-rate/

Litigation

$10 million verdict against Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds for ex-nurse s cancer/COPD blog.cvn.com/10m-verdict-after-6m-in-punitives-against-philip-morris-rjr-for-ex-nurses-cancer-copd

$6+ million verdict awarded in smoker s lawsuit against Philip Morris and Reynolds blog.cvn.com/tobacco-cos.-hit-with-another-650000-in-punitives-in-lung-cancer-death

Federal judge  SLAPPS  down lawsuit demanding  R  rating for all movies depicting smoking www.forbes.com/sites/wlf/2016/11/21/federal-judge-slapps-down-lawsuit-demanding-r-rating-for-all-movies-depicting-tobacco-use/#541b2884fd3e

E-cigarette class action suit stymied by FDA Deeming Regulation preemption www.natlawreview.com/article/e-cigarette-class-action-suit-stymied-federal-law

www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=f462aa48-340b-483a-869c-c355bebb571d

Class action lawyers challenge federal court s dismissal of frivolous  failure to warn  e-cigarette lawsuit, citing preemption of FDA deeming regulation dlbjbjzgnk95t.cloudfront.net/0865000/865425/https-ecf-cacd-uscourts-gov-doc1-031124742746.pdf

www.law360.com/articles/865425/e-cig-users-fight-to-reinstate-suit-over-danger-warning

Vaping Bans

DC Mayor Bowser to sign bills banning vaping in workplaces (despite no risks to nonusers) and to increase minimum age for sales of vapor and tobacco products to 21.

www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/vaping-in-bars-cigarette-sales-to-teens-to-become-illegal-in-dc/2016/11/24/1f71cff6-b01f-11e6-be1c-8cec35b1ad25_story.html

Olympia (WA) considers banning vaping and smoking in parks www.theolympian.com/news/local/article115774563.html

Prestonberg (KY) City Council bans vaping in most workplaces and public places floydcountytimes.com/news/8543/council-bans-vaping-in-city-limits

Russian Duma lawmaker proposes cigarette protecting bill to ban vaping in parks and other public places; news agency falsely calls vaping  smoking  www.rapsinews.com/legislation_news/20161129/277232316.html

Phillipine Health Dept wants vaping including in smoking ban, deceitfully claims vaping increases cigarette smoking www.philstar.com/headlines/2016/11/17/1644636/doh-wants-e-cig-vapes-covered-smoking-ban

Legacy lies initiative pays 83 community colleges to ban vaping and use of smokeless tobacco, deceitfully conflates low risk smokefree alternatives with deadly cigarettes, truthinitiative.org/news/83-schools-pledge-go-smoke-or-tobacco-free-community-college-initiative

truthinitiative.org/news/qa-helping-college-campuses-go-tobacco-free

CVS and ACS pay colleges $20,000 to lobby/implement/enforce campus bans on use o lifesaving vapor products, very low risk smokeless tobacco and low risk OTP www.theeastcarolinian.com/news/article_cdd968da-b054-11e6-9504-cf0778165ab8.html

www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/american-cancer-society-and-cvs-health-foundation-award-grants-to-help-20-colleges-and-universities-go-tobacco-free-in-largest-initiative-of-its-kind-300361928.html

Pharmacy Sales Bans

CVS and Legacy lies initiative create phony youth group  DoSomething.org  to lobby to ban sales of lifesaving vapor products, very low risk smokeless tobacco products and low risk OTP at all pharmacies (by deceitfully conflating all nicotine/tobacco products with deadly cigarettes, except for Big Pharma s NRT). www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/young-people-take-back-the-shelves-and-demand-that-pharmacies-stop-selling-tobacco-products-300371471.html

Smokeless Tobacco Usage Bans

Major League Baseball and players union agree to further ban players use of smokeless tobacco products (which are 99% less harmful than cigarettes, and have helped millions of smokers quit smoking), succumb to lies and bullying by abstinence-only extremists. www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2016/12/01/baseball-smokeless-tobacco-cba-mlb/94721720/

www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article118130993.html

cumberlink.com/sports/national/baseball/smokeless-tobacco-to-take-a-dip-among-big-league-newcomers/article_8b24a80d-fbe8-5fa6-b5d5-5f6544d4d40f.html

Big Pharma financed CTFK criticizes MLB smokeless tobacco ban as not tough enough, says cities should ban all adults from using very low risk smokeless tobacco products (that pose no risks to nonusers) at all sports venues, grossly exaggerate risks of smokeless tobacco, falsely insinuate Tony Gwynn s death was caused by smokeless tobacco use. www.tobaccofreekids.org/press_releases/post/2016_12_01_baseball

Minimum Age Laws

After refusing to acknowledge or support PA s minimum age 21 law for cigarette sales from 1994-2001, and after failing to criticize PA s repeal of that law (that was lobbied for by RWJF funded ACS, AHA, ALA, Big Tobacco and convenience stores), Big Pharma funded CTFK touts, issues list of minimum age 21 laws (that ban sales of lifesaving vapor products, very low risk smokeless tobacco, low risk OTP and deadly cigarettes). www.tobaccofreekids.org/content/what_we_do/state_local_issues/sales_21/states_localities_MLSA_21.pdf

US Local Laws

R Street issues Vapescore 2016: Regulating Vapor Products in 52 US Cities www.rstreet.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/74.pdf
www.vapescore.org/

NATO s Thomas Briant   Local tobacco ordinances: What retailers need to do www.cspdailynews.com/category-news/tobacco/articles/local-tobacco-ordinances-what-retailers-need-do

Government Funding for Tobacco Control

Alabama Health Dept s Jim McVay, Big Pharma financed ACS, falsely claim more government funding is needed to reduce smoking (despite no evidence smoking has been reduced by government tobacco control propaganda conflating lifesaving vapor products and low risk smokeless tobacco with cigarettes, and tout Big Pharma cessation drugs). www.wbrc.com/story/33776589/alabamas-smoker-setback-programs-lack-funding

International Bans/Regulations on Vapor and Vaping

RWJF/Bloomberg funded anti-vaping activists at Johns Hopkins classify, compile list of mostly cigarette protecting anti-vapor/vaping laws in different countries (including 25 countries that ban vapor sales to adult smokers), fail to distinguish between laws that benefit vs threaten public health, falsely claim  the impact of e-cigarettes on public health is unclear,  fail to acknowledge any benefits vaping has provided to millions of smokers. tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2016/11/30/tobaccocontrol-2016-053179.full

tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2016/11/30/tobaccocontrol-2016-053179/T1.expansion.html

Plain Packaging

Big Tobacco threatens Supreme Court fight after losing packaging appeal (UK) www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/11/30/big-tobacco-threatens-supreme-court-fight-losing-packaging-appeal/

uk.reuters.com/article/us-tobacco-court-appeal-idUKKBN13P1ED

www.bbc.com/news/business-38157220

Canada

Canadian government introduces legislation to:

– purportedly  prevent vaping product use from leading to the use of tobacco products by young persons  despite no evidence that has occurred anywhere since vaping began,

– legalize vapor (incl. flavored) product sales to adults, but ban virtually all truthful and effective advertisements and promotions of vapor products to smokers

– ban vaping in virtually all workplaces,

– mandate unspecified warnings about potential health hazards of vaping,

– ban  sales of menthol cigarettes,

– require plain packaging for all tobacco products (including very low risk smokeless tobacco and low risk cigars)

www.parl.gc.ca/LegisInfo/BillDetails.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&billId=8616151

www.newswire.ca/news-releases/government-of-canada-introduces-new-tobacco-and-vaping-products-legislation-602501025.html

www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&DocId=8616193

www.parl.gc.ca/content/hoc/Bills/421/Government/S-5/S-5_1/S-5_1.PDF

news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=1158589

news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=1158609

www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2016/2016-11-05/html/reg5-eng.php?pedisable=true

News articles on Canadian vaping legislation ipolitics.ca/2016/11/22/liberals-introduce-vaping-legislation/

www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/liberals-target-children-smokers-looking-to-quit-with-new-vaping-bill/article32990467/

www.newswire.ca/news-releases/government-of-canada-introduces-new-tobacco-and-vaping-products-legislation-602501025.html?tc=eml_mycnw

David Sweanor on e-cigarettes prompting a drop in smoking omny.fm/shows/tasha-kheiriddin/david-sweanor-on-e-cigarettes-prompting-a-drop-in

E-cigarette vaping credited by some for sharp drop in smoking despite officials frowning on practise (Canada)

www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/news/canada/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/e-cigarette-vaping-credited-by-some-for-sharp-drop-in-smoking-despite-officials-frowning-on-practise

David Sweanor on e-cigarettes prompting a drop in smoking omny.fm/shows/tasha-kheiriddin/david-sweanor-on-e-cigarettes-prompting-a-drop-in

E-cigarette vaping credited by some for sharp drop in smoking despite officials frowning on practise (Canada)

www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/news/canada/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/e-cigarette-vaping-credited-by-some-for-sharp-drop-in-smoking-despite-officials-frowning-on-practise

www.thestarphoenix.com/news/national/cigarette%20vaping%20credited%20some%20sharp%20drop%20smoking/12416174/story.html

Vaping advocates defend e-cigarettes to Quinte West (Ontario) council www.quintenews.com/2016/11/group-defends-e-cigarette-use-council/132997/

David Sweanor   Recipient: Outstanding Individual Philanthropist Award ottawacitizen.com/life/style/our-ottawa/around-town-celebrating-the-best-of-local-philanthropy-at-the-phils

www.northumberlandtoday.com/2016/11/24/port-hope-man-honoured-for-philanthropy

WHO FCTC COP-7

E-cigarette prohibition would be a huge mistake: Experts timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/health-news/e-cigarette-prohibition-will-be-a-huge-mistake-experts/articleshow/55367792.cms

Vidya Krishnan: Will ENDS justify the means?

www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/Will-ENDS-justify-the-means/article16375504.ece

Globalism and culture shock in India (ending coverage of WHO FCTC COP7, Rebel Media refutes false claim of tobacco industry funding, says they are crowd funded) www.youtube.com/watch?v=4esr0C24a4c&feature=youtu.be&t=3m36s

WHO FCA: COP7 decisions: an overview

www.fctc.org/fca-news/opinion-pieces/1499-cop7-decisions-an-overview

THR Surveillance

Wisconsin survey finds cigarette smoking keeps declining among middle and high school students; so Health Department again attacks e-cigs (which reduced teen smoking) www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/tobacco/index.htm

www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/publications/p01624a.pdf

www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/publications/p01624.pdf

www.publicnewsservice.org/2016-11-21/health-issues/wisconsin-youth-tobacco-survey-good-news-and-bad/a55027-1

THR Research

First-ever study finds switching to vaping reduced blood pressure among hypertensive smokers (blood pressure decline followed decline in cigarette consumption) www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/13/11/1123/htm

www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/13/11/1123

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27845734

Study of 100 vape shop customers in a Southern Plains state in US finds:

– 98% reported being smokers (97% cigarettes, 1% cigars) before they began vaping,

– 62% were biochemically verified smoking abstinent (including 66% of those who reported being smokers at the time they began vaping),

– among vapers who still smoked, mean daily cigarette consumption declined from 19.4 to 4.8 after vaping,

– 100% were using new generation open tank vapor products,

– average consumption of e-liquid was 8.1 milliliters per day,

– 91% reported enjoying vaping more than smoking,

– 80% preferred non-tobacco e-cigarette flavors,

–  battery life ,  tastes good , and  curb cravings  were most important vapor features,

–  feels/looks like a traditional cigarette  was least important vapor feature,

– 85% preferred buying at vape shops because  access of staff who can help troubleshoot e-cigarette problems ,

– 74% preferred buying at vape shops because they  enjoy the atmosphere , www.tobaccopreventioncessation.com/Examining-the-Smoking-and-Vaping-Behaviors-and-Preferences-of-Vape-Shop-Customers,65150,0,2.html

BAT study finds vaping can be as effective at delivering nicotine as smoking cigarettes, especially among experienced vapers, finds new generation products more effective

www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/png/ajhb/2017/00000041/00000001/art00002

doi.org/10.5993/AJHB.41.1.2

Brad Rodu: Snus not associated with gastroesophageal reflux, says Norwegian study rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com/2016/11/snus-not-associated-with.html

Junk Science, Propaganda and Lies

Nicotine & Tobacco Research editor Marcus Munafo misrepresents scientific evidence, still denies vaping has helped people quit smoking (to celebrate ineffective ACS GASO) blog.oup.com/2016/11/research-electronic-cigarettes/

Mike Siegel: Dishonesty of vaping opponents (Health Agencies) is out of control; urgent action is needed tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2016/11/dishonesty-of-vaping-opponents-health.html

ACSH: The top 16 junk science stories of 2016

#5 E-cigarettes do not lead to cigarette smoking

acsh.org/news/2016/11/30/top-16-junk-science-stories-2016-10509

acsh.org/news/2016/08/16/e-cigarettes-make-smoking-seem-abnormal

Plastic surgeons Peter Taub and Alan Matarasso claim surgery patients shouldn t vape for 4 weeks prior to surgery (despite no evidence vaping poses any risk for surgical patients) by citing 4 week cigarette abstinence recommendation for smokers prior to surgery (because smoking complicates wound healing); American Society of Plastic Surgeons publishes sham article, and issues sham press release; Daily Mail repeats the  fake news  journals.lww.com/plasreconsurg/Fulltext/2016/12000/E_Cigarettes_and_Potential_Implications_for.38.aspx

www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-11/wkh-pss112916.php

www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3983870/How-e-cigarettes-ruin-plastic-surgery-Vaping-chemicals-prevent-skin-taking-new-implants.html

Konstantinos Farsalinos: The journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons should retract paper and press release on e-cigarettes to avoid being discredited/ridiculed www.ecigarette-research.org/research/index.php/whats-new/whatsnew-2016/249-plas

ATS press releases grossly misrepresents findings of junk e-cig study funded by NIH, falsely insinuates that teen experimentation with e-cig use causes respiratory disorders. www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-11/ats-emh111716.php

www.news-medical.net/news/20161116/E-cigarette-use-linked-to-risk-of-respiratory-symptoms-among-adolescents.aspx

www.thoracic.org/about/newsroom/press-releases/resources/mcconnell-and-ecig-and-teenlungs.pdf

www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1164/rccm.201604-0804OC

www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i6203

Daily Mail article repeats false fear mongering claims by ATS and junk study on e-cigs www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3950324/E-cigarettes-double-risk-bronchitis-teenagers-Experts-say-release-chemical-causes-permanent-lung-damage.html

Mike Siegel: New study on e-cigarettes and bronchitis: An example of scientific dishonesty and deception tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2016/11/new-study-on-e-cigarettes-and.html

Konstantinos Farsalinos: Do e-cigarettes cause COPD or is there a COPD epidemic in Southern California?

www.ecigarette-research.org/research/index.php/whats-new/whatsnew-2016/248-bronch

Brad Rodu: Another engineered study claims teen vaping leads to smoking rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com/2016/11/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none.html

CBS Baltimore further misrepresents junk study findings by DHHS funded Leventhal et al alleging that vaping is gateway to frequent cigarette smoking baltimore.cbslocal.com/2016/11/24/growing-numbers-of-teens-now-smoking-e-cigarettes/

Herald (Everett, WA) editorial repeats many fear mongering lies about vaping, touts junk study by Leventhal et al and JAMA falsely claiming teen vaping leads to heavy smoking www.heraldnet.com/opinion/big-tobacco-wins-big-with-vaping/

Brad Rodu: Miscounting teen perceptions of e-cigarettes rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com/2016/11/miscounting-teen-perceptions-of-e.html

Anti vaping activists grossly misrepresent and tout another inapplicable cell study (i.e. on saliva samples), falsely claim vaping is smoking in fear mongering press release headline  Smoking electronic cigarettes kills large number of mouth cells  www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-11/ul-sec111616.php

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jcp.25677/full

www.lapresse.ca/sciences/medecine/201611/16/01-5041922-la-cigarette-electronique-tue-des-cellules-de-la-bouche.php

medicalxpress.com/news/2016-11-electronic-cigarettes-large-mouth-cells.html

Mike Siegel: New study shows the blatant bias in modern-day tobacco control research and demonstrates why you need to look at the actual data tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2016/11/new-study-shows-blatant-bias-in-modern.html

FDA/NCI funded UCSF vapor prohibitionists Glantz/Dutra/Grana now absurdly claim Philip Morris invented the e-cigarette more than two decades ago  to complement, not compete with, conventional cigarettes and evade tobacco control regulations .

tobaccocontrolbeta.bmj.com/content/early/2016/11/15/tobaccocontrol-2016-053406

Big Pharma financed ALA s Norm Edelman keeps hawking ineffective and less than safe Big Pharma cessation drugs to smokers, fails to ethically disclose Big Pharma funding www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/11/30/503757142/it-s-never-too-late-to-quit-smoking-even-in-your-60s

FDA/NCI funded anti-tobacco extremists at UNC lobby to ban flavorings with false and misleading fear mongering claims tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2016/11/20/tobaccocontrol-2016-053196.full

consumer.healthday.com/kids-health-information-23/adolescents-and-teen-health-news-719/tobacco-flavors-draw-in-young-folks-717080.html

medicalxpress.com/news/2016-11-flavors-appeal-tobacco-products-youth.html

Forbes article praising Michael Bloomberg s philanthropy conflates all tobacco use with deadly cigarette smoking, praises vaping prohibitionist WHO, falsely claims plain packaging laws and tobacco advertising bans have reduced smoking, fails to mention Bloomberg s cigarette protecting anti-vaping activism including NYC s 2014 vaping ban. www.forbes.com/sites/bridgespan/2016/11/29/10-years-later-bloombergs-big-bet-on-tobacco-reduction/#475b913c3fa6

Marijuana Harm Reduction

Adam Houston & David Sweanor: Smoke s negative effects should guide marijuana and tobacco policy (Canada) policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/november-2016/smokes-negative-effects-should-guide-marijuana-and-tobacco-policy/

How marijuana legalization this election could influence efforts to legalize in other states video-api.wsj.com/api-video/player/iframe.html

CA vapor prohibitionists (who falsely claimed vaping would re-normalize cigarette smoking) now falsely claim marijuana legalization will re-normalize cigarette smoking www.dailynews.com/article/20161116/NEWS/161119543

Stan Glantz seeks anti-marijuana activist to demonize marijuana legalization under the guise of conducting scientific research tobacco.ucsf.edu/research-opportunity-work-stanton-glantz-marijuana-and-tobacco-policymaking-research

Alcohol v Marijuana

Colorado bans cannabis consumption in liquor licensed establishments, but not coffee shops; liquor industry and MADD lobbied for measure www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3952808/Opponents-say-barring-pot-use-Denver-businesses-unwise.html

www.krdo.com/news/politics/rule-bans-bars-many-restaurants-from-creating-pot-use-areas/171725224

Opioid Harm Reduction

Josh Bloom: Trump s wall and the opioid crisis acsh.org/news/2016/11/22/trumps-wall-and-opioid-crisis-10450

Josh Bloom   In search of sane pain policies: An interview with Richard Lawhern, PhD acsh.org/news/2016/11/10/search-sane-pain-policies-interview-richard-lawhern-phd-10430

 

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Smokefree Pennsylvania

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