Welcome Back, Bill! 🙂 2018 Federal Spending Bill American E-Liquid Manufacturing Standards Association (AEMSA) sends letter urging Congressional leaders to exclude Cole-Bishop amendment from 2018 federal spending bill (because it requires FDA to issue a Final Rule for “a product standard for vapor products” “to include but not limited to” “characterizing flavors” and “batteries” by January […]
Breaking News FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb delays FDA’s vapor PMTA application deadline and vapor prohibition date from November 8, 2018 until August 8, 2022, vaguely endorses THR, calls for FDA to develop a new comprehensive plan for tobacco, nicotine, vapor and flavor product regulation www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm568923.htm www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Speeches/UCM569024.htm www.fda.gov/TobaccoProducts/NewsEvents/ucm568425.htm Scott Gottlieb’s special announcement on tobacco/nicotine/vapor policy is […]
THR Research and Policy 2017 Global Forum on Nicotine (held in Warsaw June 15-17) presentations available at gfn.net.co/videos-2017 (You can watch the excellent three day conference) 2017 GFN speakers included: Pat O’Hare, Ethan Nadelmann, Alex Wodak, Peter Lee, Lion Shahab, Konstantinos Farsalinos, Moira Gilchrist, Tom Kirchner, Kevin McGirr, Justyna Lipowicz, Amelia Howard, Thomas McGrath, Jeannie […]
US THR Surveillance and Deception CDC releases 2016 NYTS data, finds decline in past 30 day youth smoking and vaping; but Obama leftovers at CDC continue to deceitfully conflate very low risk vapor and smokeless tobacco products (and low risk cigars and pipes) with highly addictive and deadly cigarettes, continue to fraudulently classify all vapor […]
THR Research Snus Saves Lives: A study of snus and tobacco related mortality in the EU The Snus Commission’s third report estimates deaths attributable to the EU snus banwww.clivebates.com/documents/SnusCommissionJune2017.pdf “In total and among men over the age of 30, 355,000 lives per year could have been saved if the other EU countries had matched Sweden’s […]
THR Surveillance ASH UK 2017 survey of adult vaping in Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales) finds: – 1.5 million of GB s 2.9 million vapers have quit smoking, – 9.5% of ex-smokers vape in 2017 compared to just 1.1% in 2012, –Â .3% of never smokers vape in 2017 compared to .1% in 2012, – […]
US Congress HR 2194 introduced by Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) To protect the public health by providing the Food and Drug Administration with certain authority to regulate e-liquids and personal electronic vaporizers, to reduce the morbidity and mortality resulting from cigarette smoking through the responsible regulation of e-liquids and personal electronic vaporizers as a tobacco […]
A Billion Lives A Billion Lives international documentary now available online (exposes the truth about vaping and the unscientific, unethical and inhumane War on Vaping; Godshall and vapor experts worldwide interviewed) abillionlives.vhx.tv/ THR Surveillance CDC survey finds far more US adult smokers tried to quit smoking (during most recent quit attempt) by vaping (60%) from […]
FDA Commissioner Nominee Backs THR Scott Gottlieb Endorses / Defends Tobacco Harm Reduction “In areas where there’s an inherent, obvious, and seemingly unavoidable risk related to certain consumer products – whether it is combustible tobacco or dangerously addictive opioid drugs – we have the opportunity to help consumers move to less risky alternatives.” Scott Gottlieb, […]
New Zealand Legalizes Sales of Lifesaving Vapor Products Nicky Wagner (Associate Health Minister): Nicotine e-cigarettes to become legal www.beehive.govt.nz/release/nicotine-e-cigarettes-become-legal E-cigarettes to be regulated as consumer products www.health.govt.nz/our-work/preventative-health-wellness/tobacco-control/e-cigarettes NZ Herald – E-cigarettes will be legalized: Government www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11827700 THR Surveillance World’s lowest cigarette smoking rate (Sweden) drops to new record low 9%, male smoking rate drops to […]
