THR Business
Philip Morris International reports 6.3% cigarette volume decline in 2017 (from 812.9B to 761.9B), 390% volume increase in Heated Tobacco Units (from 7.4B to 36.2B); claims “We estimate that over 4.7 million adult consumers around the world have already stopped smoking and made the change to IQOS” (slide 31), titles report ‘Designing a Smoke-Free Future’
www.pmi.com/investor-relations/overview/event-details?EventId=5267365
Japan Tobacco reports a 12.9% cigarette industry volume decline in Japan for 2017, and a 12.5% cigarette volume decline for Japan Tobacco, estimates heat-not-burn products will replace 23% of Japanese cigarette market by the end of 2018, CEO commits to focus on low risk alternatives. The 12.9% decline is likely the largest single year decline in cigarette consumption in any nation.
www.jt.com/investors/results/presentation_financial/
www.jt.com/investors/results/forecast/pdf/2017/Full_Year/20180206_11.pdf
www.jt.com/investors/results/forecast/pdf/2017/Full_Year/20180206_10.pdf
Wells Fargo’s Bonnie Herzog increases 2018 US vapor sales estimate by $400M to $5.5 Billion (due to skyrocketing Juul, Herzog increased her cigalike e-cig sales estimate from $1.6B to $2B).
www.e-cigarette-forum.com/threads/wells-fargos-herzog-increases-2018-us-vapor-sales-estimate-to-5-5-billion.850021/
Bonnie Herzog’s estimated US vapor sales since 2014
2018 $5.5 Billion total, $3.5B PVs & e-liquid, $2.0B cigalike e-cigs
2017 $4.4 Billion total, $3B PVs & e-liquid, $1.4B cigalike e-cigs
2016 $4.1 Billion total, $2.5B PVs & e-liquid, $1.6B cigalike e-cigs
2015 $3.5 Billion total, $2B PVs & e-liquid, $1.5B cigalike e-cigs
2014 $2.5 Billion total, $1.1B PVs & e-liquid, $1.4B cigalike e-cigs
According to Herzog, during the last 4 weeks Juul captured 49.6% of US cigalike e-cig sales, as BAT/Reynolds’ Vuse declined to 20.5%, Altria’s Mark Ten declined to 11.4%, Imperial’s Blu declined to 8.6%, JTI’s Logic declined to 5.4%, and NJOY declined to 1.8% of the segment.
Japan Tobacco to launch Ploom Tech heat-not-burn product
www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-tobacco-results/japan-tobacco-to-launch-new-smokeless-product-this-year-idUSKBN1FQ13Z
FDA Deeming Rule Litigation
Azim Chowdhury and Adam Susser: Opening Brief Filed in Deeming Rule Appeal by Nicopure Labs and the Right to be Smoke-Free Coalition
Ilya Shapiro: A lawsuit to make rulemakers follow the rules (Pacific Legal Foundation lawsuits)
www.washingtonexaminer.com/a-lawsuit-to-make-rulemakers-follow-the-rules/article/2648032
Local vape shop owner sues FDA (MI – Pacific Legal Foundation lawsuit)
www.clarecountyreview.com/news/local-vape-shop-owner-sues-fda/
FDA Deeming Rule
NIDA funded NBER study estimates that 10% (i.e. 350,000) additional smokers would have quit smoking had FDA not proposed and imposed its cigarette protecting 2016 Deeming Rule, estimates a federal television ban on e-cigarette advertising would have further reduced the number of people who quit smoking by 3% (i.e. by 105,000 smokers).
E-cigarette commercials may encourage smokers to quit
www.marketwatch.com/story/e-cigarette-commercials-may-encourage-smokers-to-quit-2018-02-06
NY Times article on FDA Cmsnr Scott Gottlieb falsely portrays his 4 year delay of Obama’s FDA Deeming Rule’s sales ban on vapor products (from 8/8/2018 to 8/8/2022) as benefitting cigarette companies. In fact, Gottlieb’s action temporarily protected the health of vapers and smokers in the US, and the 10,000+ vapor companies that compete against cigarette companies.
www.nytimes.com/2018/02/11/health/gottlieb-fda-drugs.html
FDA’s Bogus Embrace of Tobacco Harm Reduction
Column in Health Affairs hawks more ineffective Big Pharma nicotine drugs, deceitfully claims FDA’s disastrous Deeming Rule and other cigarette protecting regulations promote tobacco harm reduction and innovation of new low risk nicotine/tobacco products; Godshall posts comments exposing these facts, but Health Affairs editors censor comments from being posted.
www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20180212.333148/full/
US Congress / FDA – IQOS / Budget
Ten Democrat US Senators (Durbin-IL, Blumenthal-CT, Brown-OH, Markey-MA, Warren-MA, Merkley-OR, Murray-WA,Van Hollen-MD, Reed-RI, Whitehouse-RI) urge FDA to reject PMI’s MRTP for IQOS & Marlboro HeatSticks
www.riverbender.com/articles/details/senators-urge-fda-to-reject-philip-morris-application-to-claim-new-tobacco-product-poses-reduced-risk-26608.cfm
With no evidence, US Senator Dick Durbin’s (D-IL) tweet accuses Philip Morris of “again trying to hook a new generation of children to its deadly & addictive tobacco products”, claims that’s why he and 9 other Democrat Senators sent a letter urging FDA to reject PMI’s MRTP
twitter.com/SenatorDurbin/status/961383524518498304?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
CTFK opposes 2018 Senate spending bill’s cut in CDC anti-tobacco/vaping propaganda funding
www.tobaccofreekids.org/press-releases/congress-shouldnt-cut-disease-prevention-fund-to-pay-for-other-health-programs
www.tobaccofreekids.org/press-releases/2018_02_08_senate
Trump’s proposed 2019 budget gives last-minute reprieve to science funding
www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01811-x
Public Health England’s new scientific report on e-cigarettes refutes false claims by US DHHS
Public Health England publishes independent scientific report that further confirms vaping is far less harmful than smoking, has helped many smokers quit, and does NOT lead to cigarette smoking (which has plummeted); but 40% of UK smokers have never tried an e-cigarette, and many in UK inaccurately believe vaping is just as harmful as smoking (largely due to anti vaping propaganda and junk science funded and promoted by the US DHHS)
www.gov.uk/government/news/phe-publishes-independent-expert-e-cigarettes-evidence-review press release
www.gov.uk/government/publications/e-cigarettes-and-heated-tobacco-products-evidence-review full text
www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/679262/Evidence_review_of_e-cigarettes_and_heated_tobacco_products_2018.pdf (full text PDF)
The main findings of PHE’s evidence review:
– vaping poses only a small fraction of the risks of smoking and switching completely from smoking to vaping conveys substantial health benefits
– e-cigarettes could be contributing to at least 20,000 successful new quits per year and possibly many more
– e-cigarette use is associated with improved quit success rates over the last year and an accelerated drop in smoking rates across the country
– many thousands of smokers incorrectly believe that vaping is as harmful as smoking; around 40% of smokers have not even tried an e-cigarette
– there is much public misunderstanding about nicotine (less than 10% of adults understand that most of the harms to health from smoking are not caused by nicotine)
– the use of e-cigarettes in the UK has plateaued over the last few years at just under 3 million
– the evidence does not support the concern that e-cigarettes are a route into smoking among
young people (youth smoking rates in the UK continue to decline, regular use is rare and is almost entirely confined to those who have smoked)
The Lancet – Newton/Dockrell/Marczylo: Making sense of the latest evidence on electronic cigarettes
www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)30202-2/fulltext
British Medical Journal – Jacqui Wise: Doctors should state clearly that vaping is much lower risk than smoking, says report
www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k575
Clive Bates: Vaping and tobacco harm reduction – highlights from England (comprehensive compilation of scientific and empirical evidence detailing the public health benefits of vaping)
www.clivebates.com/England#PHE2018
UK National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training issues
E-cigarettes: a guide for healthcare professionals
elearning.ncsct.co.uk/e_cigarettes-launch
CRUK: Misconceptions about e-cigarette safety might be stopping smokers using them to quit
scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2018/02/07/misconceptions-about-e-cigarette-safety-might-be-stopping-smokers-using-them-to-quit/
UK News Media Widely and Accurately Report PHE’s New Scientific Report on Vaping
E-cigarettes should be on sale in hospital shops, health body says
www.theguardian.com/society/2018/feb/06/vaping-is-safe-way-to-quit-smoking-says-health-body
NHS patients should be allowed to vape indoors and even in their beds, public health body advises
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/06/nhs-patients-should-allowed-vape-indoors-even-beds/
Hospitals should sell e-cigarettes, health officials say
www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-5357233/Hospitals-sell-e-cigarettes-health-officials-say.html
Let hospitals sell e-cigarettes and let the sick have ‘vaping lounges’ on wards say public health leaders
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/hospitals-sell-e-cigarettes-sick-11975398
Hospitals should sell e-cigarettes and provide vaping lounges, health officials say
news.sky.com/story/hospitals-should-sell-e-cigarettes-and-provide-vaping-lounges-health-officials-say-11238429
Researchers say hospitals should sell electronic cigarettes to patients
www.heraldscotland.com/news/15921463.Study_calls_for_electronic_cigarettes_to_be_sold_in_hospital_shops/
www.thesun.co.uk/news/5508787/hospitals-patients-to-vape-in-bed/
www.thesun.co.uk/news/5517479/vaping-e-cigarettes-safety-fears-advice/
nursingnotes.co.uk/hospitals-sell-e-cigarettes-allow-patients-vape/
In sharp contrast, only one US news outlet published an article exposing PHE’s e-cigarette report
Reuters: UK experts urge smokers to switch to e-cigs for big health gains
www.reuters.com/article/us-health-ecigarettes/uk-experts-urge-smokers-to-switch-to-e-cigs-for-big-health-gains-idUSKBN1FQ001
E-cigarette ban out of puff: UK study urges smokers to embrace the vape (Australia)
www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/ecigarette-ban-out-of-puff-uk-study-urges-smokers-to-embrace-the-vape/news-story/707309005fb4bab78900a4ccfdc41d12
Kate Kelland: UK experts urge smokers to switch to e-cigarettes (Pakistan)
pakobserver.net/uk-experts-urge-smokers-switch-e-cigarettes/
Neyla Zannia: Public Health England’s report re-affirms findings of e-cigarettes being significantly less harmful than conventional cigarettes (Singapore)
www.theonlinecitizen.com/2018/02/12/public-health-englands-latest-report-re-affirms-findings-of-e-cigarettes-being-significantly-less-harmful-than-conventional-cigarettes/
Steve Birr: UK hospitals urged to sell e-cigarettes and encourage vaping for patients who smoke
dailyvaper.com/2018/02/06/uk-hospitals-urged-embrace-vapes/
Diana Caruana: PHE releases expert e-cigarettes evidence review report
www.vapingpost.com/2018/02/07/phe-releases-expert-e-cigarettes-evidence-review-report/
UK promotes MHRA approved e-cigarettes as medicine in UK, but no products are available
NHS plan to prescribe e-cigarettes goes up in smoke after the only device licensed for medical use is axed
www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5351331/NHS-plan-prescribe-e-cigarettes-goes-smoke.html
E-cigarettes ‘should be on prescription’
www.bbc.com/news/health-42950607
Pharmaceutical Journal: E-cigarettes should be available on prescription, Public Health England says
www.pharmaceutical-journal.com/news-and-analysis/news/e-cigarettes-should-be-available-on-prescription-public-health-england-says/20204369.article
Simon Clark: Why PHE’s pro vaping crusade is the enemy of choice
taking-liberties.squarespace.com/blog/2018/2/6/why-phes-pro-vaping-crusade-is-the-enemy-of-choice.html
National Academies Junk Science Report on E-cigarettes
Joel Nitzkin: National Academies of Sciences’ e-cig report gets it wrong
www.rstreet.org/op-ed/national-academies-of-sciences-e-cig-report-gets-it-wrong/
dailyvaper.com/2018/02/05/national-academies-of-sciences-e-cig-report-gets-it-wrong/
National Tobacco Reform Initiative: E-Cigarettes are Saving Lives (claims National Academies report supports THR products and FDA’s new low nicotine cigarette policy (i.e. prohibition)
www.tobaccoreform.org/e-cigarettes-are-saving-lives/
David Abrams: Smokers should use e-cigarettes if they can’t quit completely (on NA report)
cancerletter.com/articles/20180209_2/
“The public have been very much misled and wrongly believe that e-cigarettes would not help you quit.”
Azim Chowdhury and Adam Susser: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Report Recognizes that Vapor Products Are Significantly Less Harmful than Traditional Combustible Cigarettes
www.thecontinuumofrisk.com/2018/02/national-academies-sciences-engineering-medicine-report-recognizes-vapor-products-safer-traditional-combustible-cigarettes/
Cigarette Smoking Research
Analysis of 2006-2013 NSDUH data finds onset of cigarette smoking was three times greater (6.3% vs 1.9%) among young adults (aged 18-25) than among adolescents (aged 12-17), refutes the claim that the vast majority of cigarette smokers become hooked as youth.
academic.oup.com/ntr/article-abstract/20/3/312/2964534?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Simone Denise truthfully points out there is no evidence 3rd hand smoke poses any health risk
medicalxpress.com/news/2018-02-cigarette-panic.html
THR Research
Farsalinos and Gillman expose research method flaws and exaggerations by researchers in many toxicology studies of vapor products (including many studies funded by US DHHS) – Carbonyl Emissions in E-cigarette Aerosol: A Systematic Review and Methodological Considerations
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2017.01119/full
Study finds UK vape shops have helped smokers quit smoking and stay quit
www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/15/2/297/htm
www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-5370063/Vape-shops-help-smokers-quit-study-finds.html
Carl Phillips – Science Lesson: The precautionary principle and vaping
dailyvaper.com/2018/02/05/science-lesson-the-precautionary-principle-and-vaping/
Villanti, Niura, Pearson, Glasser, Abrams respond to commenters on Fostering transparency in e-cigarette research synthesis: the utility and limitations of methodological hierarchies
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.14143/full
Brad Rodu: FDA Advisory Committee: Heat-Not-Burn is Lower Exposure Than Smoke
rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com/2018/01/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none_30.html
New Zealand survey finds stopping smoking main reason to start vaping
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11986025
THR Surveillance
Brad Rodu: American smokers’ misperception of e-cigarettes’ relative harm: A national disgrace
rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com/2018/02/american-smokers-misperception-of-e.html
Litigation
Florida jury hits Reynolds with $41.7 million verdict for family of dead smoker
blog.cvn.com/41.7m-award-against-rjr-for-smokers-copd-one-of-largest-engle-tobacco-verdicts-in-three-years
Florida jury hits Reynolds & Philip Morris with $17.5 million verdict for smoker’s cancer death
blog.cvn.com/17.5m-total-verdict-handed-down-against-rjr-philip-morris-for-south-florida-womans-cancer-death
Taxation
Connecticut Democrat Gov. Dannel Malloy’s budget proposes a 75% tax on lifesaving vapor products, increases cigarette tax from $4.25 to $4.60/pack
halfwheel.com/connecticut-governor-proposed-cigar-tax-increase/251275
www.courant.com/politics/hc-pol-connecticut-malloy-budget-20180205-story.html
New Mexico Senate Cmte rejects bill (SB 25) that would have imposed a 76% tax on vapor products, increased cigarette tax from $1.66 to $3.16/pack, increase OTP tax from 25% to 76%
www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/new-mexico/legislature/2018/02/07/new-mexico-cigarette-tax-hike-stalls-tie-vote-committee/317791002/
Steve Birr: Massive tax threatens vaping industry in Washington
dailyvaper.com/2018/02/09/tax-threatens-vaping-industry/
CASAA urges WA vapers to oppose bill (HB 2165) to impose 60% tax on vapor products
www.casaa.org/call-to-action/wa-stop-vaping-taxes/
Kingdom Vapor PA Lawsuit Update (challenging the scope of vapor products that are subject to PA’s 40% vapor tax)
kingdomvapor.com/blog/kingdom-vapor-pa-lawsuit-update/
Flavorings
Duluth (WI) Council bill would ban sales of all flavored tobacco and vapor products in most retail stores, sponsor claims purpose of bill is to protect children (but its already illegal to sell tobacco and vapor products to minors), Big Pharma shill ALA applauds flavoring ban (since Big Pharma’s flavored nicotine products are exempted)
www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/4402164-duluth-could-tighten-down-sales-flavored-tobacco-products
NJ Assembly Health Cmte passes bill that would create black market for menthol cigarettes in NJ, and reduce NJ cigarette tax revenue by a third (by banning sales of menthol cigarettes).
www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-5350231/New-Jersey-state-ban-menthol-cigarettes.html
San Francisco voters can repeal sales ban on flavored tobacco/vapor products in June
www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/SF-s-June-ballot-includes-repeal-of-flavored-12553698.php
Age 21
Illinois Senate Health Cmte approves bill (SB 2332) to raise minimum age for tobacco/vapor sales to 21
www.ilga.gov/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=2332&GAID=14&GA=100&DocTypeID=SB&LegID=108817&SessionID=91
Two Maryland bills (HB 953 & SB 456) would increase minimum age for all tobacco and vapor sales to 21, Senate Finance Committee hearing on SB 456 on February 15.
mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?pid=billpage&tab=subject3&id=sb0456&stab=01&ys=2018RS
mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=hb0953&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018RS
CASAA urges MD vapers to urge legislators to exempt vapor and smokeless tobacco products from minimum age bills
www.casaa.org/call-to-action/md-stop-tobacco-and-vapor-21/
CASAA urges IL vapers to oppose 3 bills that would increased minimum age for vapor and tobacco sales to 21
www.casaa.org/call-to-action/il-three-bills-would-deny-adult-access-to-life-saving-vapor-products/
CASAA urges Rockland County (NY) vapers to oppose bill to increase minimum age for vapor and tobacco sales to 21, County Commissioners set to vote on March 20
www.casaa.org/call-to-action/ny-rockland-county-stop-tobacco-vapor-21/
South Dakota House rejects bill (HB 1250) to raise minimum age for tobacco/vapor sales to 21
www.sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=1250&Session=2018
halfwheel.com/south-dakota-legislators-reject-tobacco-purchase-age-increase/252552
Idaho Senate Cmte rejects bill (SB 1255) to increase minimum age for tobacco/vapor sales to 21
legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2018/legislation/S1255/
halfwheel.com/idaho-tobacco-purchase-age-increase-fails/252394
Attorneys argue if Kansas law preempts Topeka from enacting age 21 tobacco/vapor sales ban
www.cjonline.com/news/20180201/attorneys-argue-validity-of-topeka-law-that-bans-sale-of-tobacco-to-those-under-21
Big Pharma shills CTFK, ACS, AHA, ALA conspire with Connecticut Health Dept funded MATCH to lobby CT legislators to raise minimum age for all tobacco and vapor sales to 21, refuse to admit that vapor and smokeless tobacco products are far less harmful than cigarettes.
www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/statewide-effort-launched-to-support-raising-tobacco-sale-age-in-connecticut-300594304.html
Vaping Bans
Missoula (MT) City Council to discuss banning the use of lifesaving vapor products in workplaces and public places, public hearing on February 26
www.abcfoxmontana.com/story/37430685/missoula-to-discuss-adding-e-cigarettes-to-smoking-ordinance
www.kpax.com/story/37459740/missoula-looks-at-smoking-rules-to-include-e-cigs
Lafayette (IN) City Council proposes vaping ban after councilman received 2 or 3 compliants
www.jconline.com/story/news/2018/02/02/lafayette-city-council-may-ban-e-smoking/1086068001/
dailyvaper.com/2018/02/03/vaping-indiana-smokers/
CASAA urges Lafayette (IN) vapers to oppose proposed workplace vaping ban
www.casaa.org/call-to-action/in-lafayette-stop-an-indoor-vaping-ban/
Rhode Island Democrat Rep. Grace Diaz introduces bill (H 7299) to ban vaping and marijuana smoking where smoking is banned (except RI’s smoking ban already bans weed smoking)
www.rilin.state.ri.us/pressrelease/_layouts/RIL.PressRelease.ListStructure/Forms/DisplayForm.aspx?List=c8baae31-3c10-431c-8dcd-9dbbe21ce3e9&ID=13409
www.theday.com/article/20180204/NWS12/180209763
law.justia.com/codes/rhode-island/2013/title-23/chapter-2
-20.10/
law.justia.com/codes/rhode-island/2013/title-23/chapter-23-20.10/section-23-20.10-2/
NY City Health Dept Hypocrisy on 2nd Hand Smoke
After lying about and lobbying to ban smokefree vaping in workplaces in 2013, NY City Health Dept now claims it is concerned that 44% of city residents are still exposed to 2nd hand smoke
www.amny.com/news/secondhand-smoke-affects-44-of-new-yorkers-report-1.16559638
Canada
Canadian Minister of Health Ginette Taylor falsely conflates risks of all tobacco products with those of cigarettes, falsely claims nicotine is addictive, advocates amending Bill S-5 to ban so-called “lifestyle advertisements” (i.e. virtually all advertising) for vapor products, but acknowledges vaping is less harmful than smoking
www.regulatorwatch.com/brent_stafford/health-minister-vaping-regs-hesa-2018/
Brent Stafford: Vaping Industry Makes its Case (testimony on Bill S-5)
www.regulatorwatch.com/brent_stafford/vaping-industry-makes-case-hesa-2018/
Anti tobacco groups call for MPs to clamp down on vaping advertising rules (which will protect cigarettes from truthful market competition by far less harmful vapor products)
ipolitics.ca/2018/02/12/anti-tobacco-groups-call-mps-clamp-vaping-advertising-rules/
UK Government Defends Snus Ban in EU Court of Justice (while advocating vaping)
Dick Puddlecote: A Great Day for Bureaucratic Intransingence
dickpuddlecote.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/a-great-day-for-bureaucratic.html
Dick Puddlecote: ASH’s Snus Flip Flop
dickpuddlecote.blogspot.com/2018/01/ashs-snus-flip-flop.html
Australia
Australian senator criticizes and challenges Australian e-cig ban
medicalxpress.com/news/2018-02-cigarette-panic.html
Steve Birr: Smokers desperate for an alternative urge Australia to embrace vaping
dailyvaper.com/2018/02/01/smokers-desperate-for-an-alternative-urge-australia-to-embrace-vaping/
Australian vaping activists campaign to legalize lifesaving vapor products
www.begadistrictnews.com.au/story/5218587/vaping-advocacy-group-visit-bega-en-route-to-parliament-house/
Singapore
Singapore’s vapor sales ban prompts vapers to switch back to deadly cigarettes
sg.news.yahoo.com/e-cigarettes-helped-cut-down-042059840.html
Plain Packaging Laws
Christopher Snowdon – Plain packaging in France: another non-event (exposes the lies made by the WHO and tobacco controllers about Australia’s plain packaging law)
velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com/2018/02/plain-packaging-in-france-another-non.html
Chrisopher Snowdon: Australian smoking rate has flattened
velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/australian-smoking-rate-has-flatlined.html
Chrisopher Snowdon: The curse of plain packaging
velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/the-curse-of-plain-packaging.html
More Junk Science, Propaganda and Lies
WHO falsely claims there is no evidence tobacco/nicotine alternatives (that emit exponentially lower levels of nine types of harmful constituents in tobacco smoke) are less harmful than cigarettes, falsely accuses BAT of insinuating WHO endorsed BAT’s “glo” heat not burn product as less harmful that cigarettes, claims WHO is “at war with the tobacco industry” www.who.int/tobacco/communications/statements/name-marketing-tobacco/en/
twitter.com/WHO/status/962013554390913024
CDC keeps demonizing vaping, hypes finding of 2016 NYTS that naïve teens will answer biased multiple choice questions about vaping when asked to do so, fails to acknowledge the vast majority of “ever e-cig users” and “past 30 day e-cig users” were just experimenters
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6706a5.htm
DHHS funded anti-THR activists at UNC unsurprisingly find teens who believe vaping is harmful are less likely to vape, but then unethically advocate lying to teens about vaping
www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2018/17_0368.htm
Carl Phillips: How low will they go? Academics and journals spread misinformation
dailyvaper.com/2018/02/08/how-low-will-they-go-academics-and-journals-spread-disinformation/
Cell study authors misrepresent their findings to falsely insinuate vaping increase risks of pneumonia in humans, news media sensationalizes claim without any fact checking
erj.ersjournals.com/content/51/2/1701592
www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/02/08/vaping-risk-elderly-pneumonia-link-revealed/
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5365489/Vaping-makes-users-likely-catch-pneumonia.html
www.medpagetoday.com/pulmonology/smoking/71039
Legacy lies initiative falsely claims Juul has nearly half of the US e-cigarette market share (its actually about 10%), repeats many lies about nicotine and vaping to confuse and scare
truthinitiative.org/news/what-is-juul
Bentley: Merchants of Doubt: How Public Health Uses Tobacco Tactics Against E-Cigarettes
www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2017/02/02/merchants-of-doubt-how-public-health-uses-tobacco-tactics-against-e-cigarettes/#353f78c578cd
Oregon Health chief Lillian Shirley protects cigarettes by lying about and demonizing lifesaving vapor products
www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2018/02/tobacco_industry_as_deceptive.html
FDA/NIH financed Glantz advocates banning sales of lifesaving vapor products and very low risk smokeless tobacco to anyone under 21 years by citing irrelevant new junk study (coauthored by Glantz and CDC vaping opponent Brian King) on state laws that banned vapor product sales to youth (which were lobbied against by Big Pharma shills CTFK, ACS, AHA, ALA)
tobacco.ucsf.edu/age-requirements-e-cigarette-purchases-protect-us-youth
www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(17)30904-7/fulltext
FDA/NIH funded Glantz keeps lying about the scientific evidence on vaping, attacks PHE report
tobacco.ucsf.edu/public-health-england-goes-even-more-overboard-e-cigs-when-i-first-heard-i-i-thought-it-was-joke
THR confused authors claim a desire to encourage smokers to completely switch to vaping,
but criticize vapers who still smoke (aka dual users), fail to acknowledge that all smokers who quit smoking by vaping were dual users for a period of time, and advocate indoor vaping bans that were/are intended to deceive the public to believe vaping is as harmful as smoking and to discourage smokers from switching to vaping.
tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2018/01/31/tobaccocontrol-2017-054070
medicalxpress.com/news/2018-02-vaping-easy.html
Vaping prohibitionist Michael Bloomberg’s financed Johns Hopkins touts its opposition to lifesaving THR products and policies, defames Foundation for a Smoke Free World
www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2018/02/bloomberg-school-rejects-tobacco-funded-foundation
NY Times article entitled “How to talk with teenagers about vaping” repeats many false fear mongering claims about vaping (just as NY Times reporters and editors have done for many years), totally ignores teen cigarette smoking and the concept of tobacco harm reduction
www.nytimes.com/2018/02/14/well/family/how-to-talk-with-teenagers-about-vaping.html
Reuters headline and article tout false and disproved claims by junk vaping study authors
www.reuters.com/article/us-health-ecigarettes/even-without-nicotine-e-cigarettes-can-still-damage-lungs-idUSKBN1FT2QE
Bill Godshall
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Smokefree Pennsylvania
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