CDC keeps lying about vaping to lobby for FDA e-cig deeming ban
Breaking News: Three weeks after MTF finds far more 8th, 10th and 12th graders smoke cigarettes than use nicotine e-cigs (7.0% vs < 2.6%), CDC report and press release lie about impact of e-cig ads on teens to lobby for FDA deeming ban and for State anti vaping programs/policies. The same advertising tactics the tobacco industry used years ago to get kids addicted to nicotine are now being used to entice a new generation of young people to use e-cigarettes, said CDC Director Tom Frieden, www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2016/p0105-e-cigarettes.html
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm64e0105a1.htm?s_cid=mm64e0105a1_e
Mike Siegel: Without any evidence, CDC continues to claim that e-cigarettes are a gateway to youth smoking tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2016/01/without-any-evidence-cdc-continues-to.html
Two weeks after MTF finds far more 8th, 10th and 12th graders smoke cigarettes than use nicotine e-cigs (7.0% vs < 2.6%), CDC director Tom Frieden deceitfully claims e-cigs are a greater health threat for kids than cigarettes in year-end press release.
www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2015/p1228-eoy.html
CDC works to protect the health, safety and security of Americans and 2015 was a particularly challenging and successful year, said CDC Director Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H. Old and new threats to our health, such as Ebola, dengue, HIV, e-cigarette use among kids, foodborne illness, prescription drug overdoses, and increased drug resistance are just a few of the threats that kept us up at night and will keep us busy in 2016.
Two weeks after MTF finds far more 8th, 10th and 12th graders smoke cigarettes than use nicotine e-cigs (7.0% vs < 2.6%), CDC repeats its false and heavily publicized claims about data from 2014 NYTS (that never asked teens if they vaped nicotine) to yet again lobby for FDA s nicotine e-cig sales ban to adults:
A 2014 study shows, for the first time, current e-cigarette use among middle and high school students surpassed current use of every other tobacco product, including conventional cigarettes, introducing a new generation to nicotine addiction. www.cdc.gov/media/dpk/2015/dpk-eoy.html#smoking
Note that CDC s January Vital Signs will focus on teens and tobacco (and will likely repeat lies about teens, e-cigs, nicotine, OTP, flavorings and smoking cessation yet again, as that s been Obama s DHHS policy since 2009).
THR Surveillance
Sally Satel: The Year in E-Cigarettes: The Good, The Bad, The Reason for Optimism www.forbes.com/sites/sallysatel/2015/12/31/the-year-in-e-cigarettes-reason-for-optimism/
French 2014 Health Barometer survey found virtually all vapers (i.e. e-cig users) 15-75 years old were current (83.1%) or former (15.0%) cigarette smokers, an estimated 400,000 vapers were former smokers who quit by switching to vaping, 80% of vapers reported reducing cigarette consumption; findings disprove many fear mongering claims made by e-cig prohibitionists since 2009 (including many government health officials) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26687039
Chinese government says number of cigarette smokers increased by 15 million (to 316 million) since 2011. Note that cigarettes are less expensive than e-cigs in China.
english.caixin.com/2015-12-30/100894449.html
THR Research
Study finds smokers who never vaped have far less knowledge and far more concerns about the efficacy and safety of vaping than smokers who vape; documents how false fear mongering claims about vaping protect cigarettes, discourage smokers from switching onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjhp.12177/abstract
Brad Rodu: Mischaracterization of e-cigarette risks skews smokers perceptions, hurts their health rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com/2015/12/mischaracterization-of-e-cigarette.html
Carl Phillips: Peer review in public health Tobacco Control journal own-goal edition antithrlies.com/2015/12/21/peer-review-in-public-health-tobacco-control-journal-own-goal-edition/
Polish survey finds cigarette smoking among 16-24 year olds declined from 21.6% in 2009, to 19.4% in 2011, to 18.1% in 2013, and to 15.5% in 2015; diagnoza.com/pliki/raporty/Diagnoza_raport_2015.pdf (page 274) diagnoza.com/data/report/report_2013.pdf
finding disproves Goneiwicz et al fraud/junk study claiming cigarette smoking among 15-19 year old Polish teens increased from 23.9% in 2010/11 to 38% in 2013/14, and falsely claiming e-cigs don t reduce cigarette smoking. Thanks to Zvi Herzig for tip.
www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(14)00310-3/pdf
www.prweb.com/releases/2014/10/prweb12264283.htm
New Polish teen survey data also disproves false fear mongering claims about e-cigs by FDA/NIH funded Dutra and Glantz (in editorial accompanying Goneiwicz et al study) at www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(14)00342-5/fulltext
Note 10/22/14 Godshall comments criticizing Goneiwicz et al for manufacturing false cigarette smoking prevalence data in Poland so they could make false fear mongering claims about e-cigs, and exposing Glantz & Dutra for conspiring with Goneiwicz et al to manufacture fraudulent fear mongering claims about e-cigs and teens.
Also note that 2015 MTF finding that <20% of US teens who use e-cigs vaped nicotine disproves virtually every claim since 2009 made by Obama s DHHS, their funding recipients, Big Pharma shills and other e-cig prohibitionists about e-cigs regarding teens, nicotine addiction, gateway to cigarettes, dual use, renormalization of smoking, etc.
Guy Bentley Study: E-cigarette advertising does not increase appeal of tobacco to children dailycaller.com/2015/12/28/study-e-cigarette-advertising-does-not-increase-appeal-of-tobacco-to-children/
www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/253015
Edward Anselm: The role of flavoring in tobacco harm reduction www.rstreet.org/policy-study/the-role-of-flavoring-in-tobacco-harm-reduction/
www.rstreet.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/RSTREET49.pdf
FDA deeming ban for vapor products
GOP Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) defends right to vape freebeacon.com/issues/gop-congressman-defends-right-to-vape/
GOP Congressman challenges Pelosi to end Dems push to regulate e-cigarettes dailycaller.com/2015/12/21/gop-congressman-challenges-pelosi-to-end-dems-war-on-e-cigarettes/
CASAA meets with, submits 57 page report to OMB/OIRA on impact of FDA deeming reg/ban CASAA OIRA presentation Dec15.pptx antithrlies.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/casaa-oira-report-15dec15.pdf
blog.casaa.org/2015/12/casaa-report-to-omboira-dated-december.html
CASAA analysis of what would really happen under ecig deeming antithrlies.com/2015/12/19/casaa-analysis-of-what-will-really-happen-under-ecig-deeming/
Boston Globe article repeats false claims about scientific evidence on e-cigs and impact of FDA deeming reg (that bans sales of >99.9% of nicotine e-cigs to adults) it would likely require pre-market review of the devices – a process that is used to determine whether potentially risky products are safe and is also expected to ban sales to minors .
www.statnews.com/2016/01/04/fda-2016-agency-agenda/
Bill Godshall and Smokefree Pennsylvania submit 159 page comment urging FDA to reject its proposal to deny 1st Amendment right of vapor and smokeless tobacco companies to make truthful statements about products, which FDA called a Clarification of when products made or derived from tobacco are regulated as drugs, devices, or combination products; amendments to regulations regarding intended uses
VA lies about e-cigs to lobby for FDA deeming ban
US Veterans Affairs/NIH funded UCSD study finds cells that survived 8 weeks in e-liquid die within 24 hours in cigarette smoke, but abstract falsely claimed e-cig vapor is cytotoxic, and lead researcher Jessica Wang-Rodriquez misrepresented her own study s findings (in a VA press release) to falsely claim I believe they are no better than smoking regular cigarettes, lazy and stupid news media (mostly in UK) repeat false fear mongering claims about study to further confuse, scare and sensationalize.
www.oraloncology.com/article/S1368-8375(15)00362-0/abstract
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-12/varc-chs122815.php
www.theguardian.com/society/2015/dec/30/e-cigarettes-may-be-no-better-than-regular-cigarettes
www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/science/e-cigarettes-can-cause-cancer-7086464
www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/health/news/article4652515.ece
www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-3378446/E-cigarette-vapour-kill-human-cells.html
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/dec/31/e-cigarettes-cell-death-dna-wang-rodriguez/
www.latinoshealth.com/articles/14741/20151231/is-vaping-as-bad-as-smoking-yes-says-study.htm
Guy Bentley: Scientist debunks latest claim that e-cigarettes are as dangerous as tobacco dailycaller.com/2015/12/29/scientist-debunks-latest-claim-that-e-cigarettes-are-as-dangerous-as-tobacco/
Clive Bates: Credulous or cynical? Science journalists played yet again by e-cigarette pseudoscience and spin www.clivebates.com/?p=3534%22
The Stats Guy: Dangerous nonsense about vaping www.statsguy.co.uk/dangerous-nonsense-about-vaping/
Linda Bauld: No, there s still no evidence e-cigarettes are as harmful as smoking www.theguardian.com/science/sifting-the-evidence/2015/dec/31/no-theres-still-no-evidence-e-cigarettes-are-as-harmful-as-smoking
Paul Barnes: Degreasing engines and killing cells fdm.ukvaping.com/2015/12/degreasing-engines-killing-cells/#more-1801
Mike Siegel: New Year begins with anti vaping researcher telling public that smoking is no more hazardous than vaping tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2016/01/new-year-begins-with-anti-vaping.html
CDC funded UNC and its researchers deceive public to believe teen use of multiple tobacco products is more harmful than exclusive cigarette smoking to confuse, scare and lobby for FDA deeming reg to ban >99.9% of nicotine e-cigs, many/most cigars, hookah.
www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/12/11/14477/htm
FDA/NIH funded Glantz et al study finds 2nd hand smoke from little cigars and cigarettes both impair arterial flow-mediated dilation (FMD) in laboratory rats, falsely claims use of little cigars is increasing (its decreasing) due to the TCA s relaxed regulatory standards to lobby for FDA deeming reg/ban
www.ingentaconnect.com/content/trsg/trs/2016/00000002/00000001/art00006
tobacco.ucsf.edu/little-cigar-secondhand-smoke-bad-arteries-cigarette-secondhand-smoke
FDA/NIH funded UCSF e-cig prohibitionists find no lifesaving e-cigs in kid s movies, but continue demonizing and lobbying to ban e-cigs from all movies tobacco.ucsf.edu/e-cigs-drop-hollywoods-list
FDA/NIH financed UCSF e-cig prohibitionists compile, tout dozens of false and misleading fear mongering claims they sent to FDA to lobby for deeming reg/ban tobacco.ucsf.edu/list-public-comments-fda-and-other-agencies-ucsf-faculty-and-fellows-and-others-links-comments
FDA funded AHA press release falsely claims 2015 MTF found increased e-cig and cigar use among teens (as both declined, and <20% of teen e-cig users vaped nicotine) to lobby for FDA s cigarette protecting ban on >99.9% of nicotine e-cigs and many/most cigars newsroom.heart.org/news/teens-trying-alternative-tobacco-products-a-disturbing-trend-says-american-heart-association
Study presented at FDA funded AHA Scientific Session conflates e-cigs and hookah with cigarettes to deceive public about health risks among Hispanic Americans, confuse public to believe e-cigs and OTP are as harmful as cigarettes, lobby for FDA deeming reg/ban hola-arkansas.com/tobacco-use-fueled-by-e-cigs-hookah-remains-high-among-u-s-hispanics/
NIDA keeps lying about e-cigs to lobby for FDA ban
Two weeks after MTF finds far more 8th, 10th and 12th graders smoke cigarettes than use nicotine e-cigs (7.0% vs < 2.6%), NIDA s e-cig webpage still protects cigarettes by lying about e-cigs (including false insinuating that e-cigs are addicting nonsmokers, are gateways to cigarettes, are as harmful as cigarettes, and haven t helped people quit smoking) don t help smoker quit smoking cigarettes, and false assertion that e-cigs are as harmful as cigarettes), nicotine, addiction, including claims that were disproved by NIDA funded 2015 MTF survey www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/electronic-cigarettes-e-cigarettes
Two weeks after MTF finds far more 8th, 10th and 12th graders smoke cigarettes than use nicotine e-cigs (7.0% vs < 2.6%), NIDA website still features director Nora Volkow touting falsified findings of a NIDA funded junk study (that never asked if nicotine was vaped) claiming e-cigs are gateways to cigarette smoking due to nicotine in e-cigs.
www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/electronic-cigarettes-e-cigarettes
www.drugabuse.gov/videos/teens-using-e-cigarettes-more-likely-to-start-smoking-tobacco
Note that NIDA funded activist Adam Leventhal, JAMA, Big Pharma funded CTFK and Nancy Rigotti, and Legacy also touted the same falsified study findings to deceitfully claim e-cigs are gateways to cigarettes; with no retractions made for those false claims.
jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2428954
jama.jamanetwork.com/multimediaPlayer.aspx?mediaid=11393408
jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2428937
jama.jamanetwork.com/multimediaPlayer.aspx?mediaid=11393410
www.tobaccofreekids.org/press_releases/post/2015_08_18_JAMA
Other FDA
22nd Century submits MRTP application to FDA for low nicotine cigarettes that are likely to prompt smokers to inhale smoke more often and deeper, smoke more cigarettes (to obtain desired level of nicotine), and increase disease risks among smokers who use them; but Vector s Quest low nicotine cigarettes were discontinued due to market failure.
www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160104005880/en/22nd-Century-Files-Modified-Risk-Tobacco-Product
FTC proposal to collect vapor product data
Same cigarette protecting US Senate Democrat who urged FDA to ban e-cigs since 2011 (by falsely claiming e-cig companies target market to youth) urge FTC to investigate e-cig companies (by falsely claiming they target market to youth) www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senators-ask-ftc-to-investigate-liquid-nicotine-retailers-for-unfair-or-deceptive-practices
www.markey.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2015-12-22-ltr-to-FTC.pdf
www.broadcastingcable.com/news/washington/senators-want-ftc-investigate-e-cigarette-flavors/146572
Cigarette protecting US Senate Democrats send letters to vaping companies falsely accusing (with no evidence provided) the companies of target marketing to youth, and making other false claims www.markey.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2015-12-22-Ltr%20to%20All%20Liquid%20Nicotine%20Companies.pdf
www.markey.senate.gov/full-list-of-167-liquid-nicotine-retailers-and-25-candy-cereal-companies-
Cigarette protecting US Senate Democrats send letters to flavor, candy and cereal companies alleging that e-cig companies use flavor/candy brands to target marketing e-cigs to youth www.markey.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2015-12-22-ltr-candycos.pdf
Legacy s Robin Koval calls e-cig prohibitionist Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) a childrens advocate for lying about vapor companies, urging FTC to ban ads for vapor products truthinitiative.org/news/senators-want-ftc-investigate-e-cigarette-flavors
FTC s proposed rule is at
ftcpublic.commentworks.com/FTC/InitiativeDocFiles/750/Notice.pdf
FDA/NIH funded e-cig prohibitionists at UCSF urge FTC to impose vapor product information rule proposal because it would protect cigarettes from marketing by e-cigs, urge FTC to request far more info from e-cig companies than from cigarette companies, falsely claim e-cigs are addictive and renormalize smoking (despite no evidence of either) tobacco.ucsf.edu/sites/tobacco.ucsf.edu/files/u9/FTC%20comment%20-%2027Dec2015-00032.pdf
NYC Controller falsely tells FTC that vapor manufacturers target market to youth just like cigarette companies decades ago
www.nydailynews.com/new-york/e-cig-ads-target-kids-nyc-controller-letter-ftc-article-1.2474991
Drug Policy
Why the war on drugs should take cues from our battle against smoking www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/our-success-against-smoking-should-serve-as-the-model-for-the-war-on-drugs/2015/12/29/a1d9f5de-aa46-11e5-9b92-dea7cd4b1a4d_story.html
FDA approved smoking cessation drugs
Victorian Coroner puts quit-smoking drug under spotlight (Varenicline in Australia) www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2015/s4381779.htm
CDC touts CDC videos, ineffective gums/patches/lozenges/inhalers and less-than-safe Chantix, Quit-line that promotes those drugs, and other ineffective ways to quit smoking for New Year, fails to mention lifesaving vapor products that have helped millions quit.
www.cdc.gov/features/smokingcessation/index.html
E-cig and vaping prohibitionist Iowa AG Tom Miller tells some truths about vaping
After repeating false fear mongering claims about e-cigs in State AG letters urging FDA to impose deeming ban on e-cigs and urging retailers to stop selling tobacco and e-cigs, Iowa AG Tom Miller tells some truths about vapor products, but fails to correct/clarify his past false claims, fails to withdraw his support for FDA s deeming ban, and claims he still supports workplace vaping bans (that were prompted by false fear mongering claims) admin.iowaattorneygeneral.gov/media/cms/20151223_Miller_statement_on_ecigar_160B8FDBC0869.pdf
Note that Iowa AG Tom Miller also Chairs the Board of Legacy, which includes far more e-cig prohibitionists and propagandists than board of any other anti vaping group truthinitiative.org/bios/board-of-directors
9/24/2013 letter cosigned by Iowa AG Miller urging FDA to impose deeming reg (to ban sales of >99.9% of nicotine e-cigs to adults) and repeating false claims about e-cigs www.naag.org/assets/files/pdf/E%20Cigarette%20Final%20Letter%20(5)(1).pdf
3/24/2014 letter cosigned by Iowa AG urging Wallmart, Right Aid, Kroger and Safeway to follow CVS decision to stop selling tobacco (including e-cigs) www.ag.ny.gov/pdfs/Letter_to_Kroger.pdf
8/8/2014 comment cosigned by Iowa AG urging FDA to impose deeming ban on e-cigs, and to also impose many additional unwarranted regulations on e-cigs.
www.ag.ny.gov/pdfs/FINAL_AG_FDA_Comment_Re_Deeming_Regulations.pdf
AVA s Greg Conley: Iowa AG tells the truth about e-cigarettes vaping.info/news/2015/iowa-ag-tells-the-truth-about-e-cigarettes
E-cigarettes gain Iowa attorney general s support, while ACS Cathy Calloway keeps protecting cigarettes by lying about vaping www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/health/2015/12/29/e-cigarettes-gain-iowa-attorney-generals-support/78029308/
Some surprised by Tom Miller s statement on e-cigarettes, government financed vaping opponent repeats false fear mongering claims
www.kcci.com/news/some-surprised-by-tom-millers-statement-on-ecigarettes/37199858
Iowa attorney general questions attacks on e-cigs www.journalnow.com/business/business_news/local/iowa-attorney-general-questions-attacks-on-e-cigs/article_fcd9a293-c0bd-5746-b4df-a75da1dce3d6.html
Vaping group thanks Miller
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/readers/2016/01/02/vaping-group-thanks-miller/78157006/
CASAA encourages vapers to write to Iowa AG Miller cqrcengage.com/casaa/app/onestep-write-a-letter?0&engagementId=155694
ACSH: Rolling Stone Takes on the E-Cigarette Debate acsh.org/2015/12/rolling-stone-gathers-sound-science-based-e-cig-info/
Chicago lies about vaping
Two weeks after MTF finds far more 8th, 10th and 12th graders smoke cigarettes than use nicotine e-cigs (7.0% vs < 2.6%), Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and CDPH waste tax dollars on cigarette protecting campaign that lies about and demonizes lifesaving vapor products, touts CDC s falsified findings of 2014 NYTS claiming use of nicotine e-cigs surpassed cigarette smoking by teens, and outrageously claims their lies about vaping are public education and deceitfully use hashtag #VapingTruth www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/mayor/press_room/press_releases/2015/december/mayor-emanuel-and-the-department-of-public-health-announce-campa.html
www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/cdph/provdrs/drug.html
Vapers fight back against Chicago s anti e-cigarette crusade dailycaller.com/2015/12/24/vapers-fight-back-against-chicagos-anti-e-cigarette-crusade/
Fact check: Rahm Emanuel s spin fueled campaign against e-cigarettes dailycaller.com/2015/12/23/fact-check-rahm-emanuels-spin-fueled-campaign-against-e-cigarettes/
Chicago Tribune editorial (like Chicago s Mayor and Health Dept) protects cigarettes by conflate lifesaving vaping with deadly smoking, repeats disproved lies about vaping www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-teen-smoking-vape-cancer-edit-0104-bd-20151230-story.html
Big Tobacco, the FDA, and the future of tobacco-less smoking (cites Illinois vapers and vape shop opposition to FDA ban, repeats false claims by Big Pharma financed ALA) www.daily-journal.com/news/local/big-tobacco-the-fda-and-the-future-of-tobacco-less/article_07dc6bac-e96f-5145-b104-de73bfee433e.html
Indiana e-liquid reg/ban
Hoosier politicians unhealthy relationship with Big Tobacco indianatalks.com/site/2015/12/hoosier-politicians-unhealthy-relationship-with-big-tobacco/
Taxation
AVA s Greg Conley: Chicago s deadly e-cigarette tax takes effect tomorrow vaping.info/news/2015/chicagos-deadly-e-cigarette-tax-takes-effect-tomorrow
Taxpayers Union accuses NZ government of using smokers as cash cow, $20 pack of cigarettes now includes nearly $16 in taxes www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/293357/govt-using-smokers-as-'cash-cows‘
www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/government-burned-over-smoking-tax-rise/
www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/a-packet-of-cigarettes-just-got-more-expensive
Pennsylvania will now tax RYO tobacco same as cigarettes fox43.com/2015/12/30/new-pennsylvania-will-tax-tobacco-used-to-make-roll-your-own-cigarettes/
Vaping Bans
Hawaii s new laws banning vaping and requiring age 21 for tobacco/vapor product sales won t be enforced until April www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/30849844/new-smoking-laws-go-into-effect-on-new-years-but-enforcement-wont-be-immediate
khon2.com/2015/12/29/new-hawaii-smoking-law-will-have-brief-educational-grace-period-2/
New Oregon cigarette protecting law bans use of e-cigarettes indoors (even in vape shops) and public places registerguard.com/rg/news/local/33898489-75/vapor-lock-new-law-bans-use-of-e-cigarettes-indoors-in-public-places.html.csp
Muscogee (OK) City Council considers vaping ban due to disproved lies by doctors www.fox23.com/news/news/local/muskogee-city-council-considers-e-cigarette-ban/npq3k/
Deceptive push poll claims most Kentuckians support a smokefree workplace law, but weren t asked if they support redefining smoking as including vaping, and also banning vaping in workplaces (a key component in KY smokefree bills during past few years).
wkyufm.org/post/two-thirds-kentucky-adults-support-statewide-smoking-ban
Five Scottish health boards reconsider their unscientific and intolerant vaping bans
www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-35150816
THR Business
E-cigarette market overgrown in Tulsa, shop owners say (> 70 vape shops now in Tulsa) www.tulsaworld.com/business/consumer/e-cigarette-market-overgrown-in-tulsa-shop-owners-say/article_2e79c04d-2282-510d-8ae6-bcf622aa0712.html
Canada
Karen Selick: Governments hate to admit the advantages of vaping www.huffingtonpost.ca/karen-selick/electronic-cigarettes_b_8895870.html
Ontario s latest smoking laws have vaping industry worried business could go up in smoke www.metronews.ca/news/toronto/2015/12/28/vaping-industry-sees-dark-future-in-ontarios-latest-smoking-laws.html
UK Medicine
After Voke e-cig wins approval as a medicine in UK, cigarette protecting vapor opponent Tim Ballard discourages doctors from prescribing, criticizes all vapor products and UK MHRA s approval www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/12079130/E-cigarettes-win-first-approval-as-a-medicine-opening-way-for-prescription-by-the-NHS.html
EU TPD
EU Court of Justice Advocate General Juliane Kokott rejects all legal challenges to unwarranted and nonsensical EU TPD (including Totally Wicked s challenge to cigarette protecting vapor product rule) curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2015-12/cp150154en.pdf
EU Court rules EU TPD cigarette law is valid
www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-court-pmi-idUSKBN0U60R920151223
One in four e-cigs will be banned in Britain next year after being branded too strong by European Court www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3372351/One-four-e-cigs-banned-Britain-year-branded-strong-European-Court-ruling.html
After claiming to support vaping for smokers, Cancer Research UK endorses EU ruling upholding EU TPD s unwarranted and nonsensical cigarette protecting rule for e-cigs www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-us/cancer-news/news-report/2015-12-23-eu-tobacco-regulation-on-track-following-three-challenges
New laws on e-cigarettes to be introduced across EU (highlight Belgium s cigarette protecting e-cig sales ban)
www.bbc.com/news/health-35216804
Australia s Plain Packaging Law
Mike Bloomberg touts legal victory for Australia s plain packaging law that violates the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution, and didn t reduce cigarette smoking rates or consumption (as proponents insisted it would, and continue falsely claiming it did) www.mikebloomberg.com/news/australias-legal-victory-on-plain-cigarette-packaging-law/
Prohibition
Is MOH promoting conventional cigarettes to be healthier than e-cigarettes? (Singapore) www.theonlinecitizen.com/2016/01/is-moh-promoting-conventional-cigarettes-to-be-healthier-than-e-cigarettes/
Malaysia: Un Islamic e-cigarette habit catches on like fire in Malaysia english.alarabiya.net/en/variety/2016/01/02/-Un-Islamic-e-cigarette-habit-catches-on-like-fire-in-Malaysia.html
gulfnews.com/news/asia/e-cigarette-market-booms-in-malaysia-1.1645853
E-cigarette bans in Malaysia spark debate en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/e-cigarette-bans-malaysia-spark-debate-215744469–finance.html
Prohibitionist Norwegian Medical Association proposes banning sale of all tobacco products (including lifesaving snus, and maybe lifesaving e-cigs) to those born after 2000 www.thelocal.no/20160104/norway-doctors-ban-tobacco-sales
More Junk Science, Propaganda and Lies
US HUD funded SDSU researcher grossly misrepresents negligible health risks of 3rd hand smoke to confuse, scare and generate support for HUD s proposed smoking ban www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2016/jan/01/ticker-third-hand-smoke-oh-brother/#
newscenter.sdsu.edu/sdsu_newscenter/news_story.aspx?sid=75963
www.upi.com/Health_News/2015/12/30/Thirdhand-smoke-an-under-recognized-health-threat/1881451491835/
www.trdrp.org/highlights-news-events/thirdhand-smoke-consortium.html
Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield (NY) medical directors protect cigarettes and their increasing healthcare costs/revenues, deceive policy holders and public by lying about lifesaving vapor products and less-than-safe/effective FDA approved drugs www.twcnews.com/nys/rochester/news/2015/12/30/e-cigarette-new-years-resolution-.html
www.whec.com/article/stories/s4004900.shtml
Former Irish Health Minister James Reilly absurdly claims vaping is gateway to cigarette smoking (despite massive evidence in many countries finding the exact opposite) to lobby for cigarette protecting regulations on vapor products and vaping.
www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/government-prepared-to-take-action-on-e-cigarettes-1.2479749
New York s Upstate Cancer Center Medical Director Leslie Kohman protects cigarettes by falsely claiming hookah smoking poses same lung cancer risk as cigarette smoking, and by claim hookah may be worse than smoking cigarettes.
AllenCarr.com smoking cessation service attacks vaping and vapor products via biased push poll of nonsmokers in UK, but wisely opposes NHS spending taxpayer s money on BAT s Voke e-cig that was licensed by MHRA as medicine www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151227005015/en/Allen-Carrs-Easyway-Stop-Smoking-Alcohol-Drugs
PC police at Lake Superior State University says word vape should be banned, absurdly claim vaping is smoking www.lssu.edu/banished/ boston.cbslocal.com/2015/12/31/vape-words-banned-2016-university/
Article cites many false fear mongering claims about e-cigs by US DHHS and DHHS funding recipients since 2009, but fails to acknowledge that claims were all false www.cnn.com/2015/12/31/health/where-we-stand-now-e-cigarettes/
fox6now.com/2015/12/31/e-cigarettes-where-we-stand-at-the-end-of-2015/
PennLive s Carolyn Kimmel grossly misrepresents findings of studies on e-cigs to confuse and scare, interviews only vaping opponents, Godshall comments.
www.pennlive.com/bodyandmind/index.ssf/2015/12/penn_state_study_e-cigarette_s.html
Clueless Buzzfeed (UK) reporter Sara Spary confuses smokers switching to vaping with quitting smoking, repeats many disproved false claims about vapor products
www.buzzfeed.com/saraspary/people-are-turning-to-e-cigarettes-instead-of-quitting-smoki#.xa8MR6lko
Charleston (AV) Gazettemail s Lori Kersey repeats false fear mongering claims about vaping by Big Pharma financed ALA and AHA, CEH and CDC, fails to do fact checking www.wvgazettemail.com/life/20151228/health-advocates-express-concerns-over-safety-of-vaping-chemicals
Charleston (AV) Gazettemail s Lydia Nuzum repeats false fear mongering claims about vaping by WV Health Commissioner Rahul Gupta and Kanawha-Charleston Health Dept s Michael Brumage, fails to do fact checking
Univ of Glasgow s Clare Knottenbelt says unpublished studies found 2nd hand smoke associated with undisclosed cancer in pets, weight gain among castrated dogs; news media reports claim as fact
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/passive-smoking-can-harm-pets-7089397
www.scotsman.com/future-scotland/tech/smokers-warned-to-quit-for-the-health-of-their-pets-1-3986995
nypost.com/2015/12/29/secondhand-smoke-is-killing-your-pets/
www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/scotland/article4652367.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2015_12_29
Bill Godshall
Executive Director
Smokefree Pennsylvania
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