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New Study Concludes that Vaping is a One-Way Bridge to Cigarette Smoking among Youth
A newstudypublished online ahead of print in the journalTobacco Control concludes that vaping is “a one-way bridge to cigarette smoking among youth.”(See: Miech R, Patrick ME, O ’Malley PM, Johnston LD. E-cigarette use as a predictor of cigarette smoking: results from a 1-year follow-up of a national sample of 12th grade students.Tobacco Control.http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2016-0532910).The study involved a one-year follow-up of 347 high school seniors who were surveyed at baseline in 2014 and at follow-up in 2015. At baseline, they were classified as recent vapers (used an e-cigarette in the past 30 day...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - February 7, 2017 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

Anti-Smoking Leader Demands Prosecution of Tobacco Company Executives for " Crimes Against Humanity "
An international anti-smoking leader has called for prosecution of the heads of the tobacco companies for " crimes against humanity. "According to anarticle in theJerusalem Post:" Prof. Judith Mackay, the British, Hong Kong-based physician who has been described by the tobacco industry as “one of the three most dangerous people in the world,” has called for heads of the industry to be prosecuted for their “crimes against humanity.” Mackay, an international anti-tobacco advocate who has led a campaign against tobacco in Asia since 1984, appeared by video conference at the annual meeting, held in a Caesarea on Friday...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - February 6, 2017 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

Without Evidence, NIH Director Claims E-Cigarettes Cause Respiratory Infections and Asthma
In acommentary by the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), it is claimed that electronic cigarettes cause respiratory infections and asthma. According to the NIH director:" E-cigarettes come with their own health risks, including lung inflammation, asthma, and respiratory infections. "The Rest of the StoryThere is clinical evidence that vaping causes lung inflammation, so that part of the statement is supported by evidence. Specifically, vaping can causelung irritation, leading to short-term increases in airway resistance as measured by sensitive technology, although not apparent by routine spirometry. Whet...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - February 2, 2017 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

New Study Casts Serious Doubt on Claim that E-Cigarettes Lead to Youth Smoking
This study casts serious doubt on the claims of many anti-tobacco advocates and groups that e-cigarettes cause youth to initiate smoking. Based on the findings of this research, it is extremely rare to find nonsmoking youth who experiment with e-cigarettes and then go on to become regular vapers. It appears that most e-cigarette use among nonsmokers is infrequent and experimental, reflecting the likelihood that vaping among nonsmokers remains a purely social phenomenon without any addictive component. This makes it implausible that e-cigarettes represent a gateway to youth smoking. Further research from longitudinal studie...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - February 1, 2017 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

How We Know Vaping Opponents are Driven by Ideology and Not Science
I have presented many examples on this blog over the past months demonstrating the fact that vaping opponents are being driven by ideology rather than science. But there is one observation I made which is dispositive. In legal terminology, dispositivemeans"evidencethatunqualifiedlybrings aconclusion to alegalcontroversy. "This observation brings a conclusion to any controversy about whether the position and actions of vaping opponents have been science-based or ideology-based.The Rest of the StoryThe observation is actually quite simple:Not a single anti-tobacco or health group or agency which has warned the public about t...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - January 30, 2017 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

New Study in Pediatrics Shows How Anti-Vaping Researchers are Trying to Fool the Public
A newstudy published online ahead of print in the journalPediatrics purports to provide evidence that e-cigarettes are encouraging youth to smoke. According to the article, " youth who initiate use with e-cigarettes are more likely to start smoking conventional cigarettes. " An accompanyingpress release concluded that " E-cigarettes are encouraging – not discouraging – youth to smoke... " . (See: Dutra LM, Glantz SA. E-cigarettes and national adolescent e-cigarette use: 2004-2014.Pediatrics 2017. DOI: 10.1542/peds.2016-2450.)Using annual, cross-sectional data from the National Youth Tobacco Survey, the study found...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - January 24, 2017 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

Nurses Get Into the Act: Smoking is No Worse than Vaping! Don't Commend Patients for Quitting Smoking Using E-Cigarettes
Apparently, irresponsible medical advice being given to smokers about quitting is not restricted to physicians. Nurses are getting in on the act and publicly making the most reckless medical recommendations to smokers. Two egregious examples highlight the incompetent and ill-considered information being disseminated to the public in the nursing literature.1. Smoking is No Worse than VapingAccording to anarticle in the current issue of the journalNursing, two instructors at the Georgetown University School of Nursing and Health Studies claim that smoking may be no more hazardous than vaping. According to the article:" Becau...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - January 18, 2017 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

E-Cigarettes May Cause Kids to Break into Homes and Turn to a Life of Street Crime, Physician Warns
An emergency medicine physician haswarned that e-cigarettes may lead to kids breaking into homes and turning to a life of street crime in order to feed their addictions to serious drugs.In aHuffington Postcolumn, he claims that due to e-cigarette experimentation:" teenagers — and even younger children — are getting addicted early, which could lead to smoking, and e-cigs can easily become a gateway to trying and developing an addiction to more serious drugs. Addiction correlates to crime. People need to feed their habit, they break into homes to steal things to resell, they commit robberies on the streets, all to get mo...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - January 13, 2017 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

Tennessee Department of Health: E-Cigarettes Create the Threat of Date Rape, Cause Popcorn Lung, and are as Addictive as Heroin
According to a newwarningissued by the Tennessee Department of Health (TDOH), use of electronic cigarettes puts youth at risk of date rape. Date rape is just one of numerous devastating consequences that the Tennessee Department of Health is linking to electronic cigarette use, including “popcorn lung” (i.e., bronchiolitis obliterans) and addiction to nicotine that is just as strong as heroin addiction.According to a “Public Health Advisory” issued by the TDOH:“ENDS can be delivery systems for incapacitating agents such as gamma butyrolactone, GBL, more commonly known as the date rape drug. According to the U.S. ...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - January 10, 2017 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

Winner of the 2016 Lie of the Year Award
Today, I am pleased to announce the winner of the 2016 Lie of the Year Award. This award is given to the health agency or organization which has lied most egregiously to the public about smoking and/or vaping in 2016.Thenominees were: the American Thoracic Society, the University of Louisville, Johns Hopkins All Children ' s Hospital, the Arizona Department of Health Services, the Surgeon General of the United States, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, the Alaska Department of Health and Human Services, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The 2016 Lie of the Year Award goes to ...... the Centers for Disease...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - January 9, 2017 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

New FDA Rule is Wrong on the Law: Smoking Cessation Claims are Not Inherently Therapeutic Claims Because Smoking is Not a Disease
On Monday, the FDA will issue a newrule whose intent is to clarify the conditions under which electronic cigarettes will be regulated as drugs instead of as tobacco products. Essentially, this amounts to a rule regarding what claims electronic cigarette companies are allowed to make (since few, if any, of these companies can afford the expenses associated with preparing a new drug application).As the FDA explains, by statute there are two claims that would make an electronic cigarette subject to regulation as a drug under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act:1)If the manufacturer makes a therapeutic claimThis means a claim tha...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - January 6, 2017 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

First Longitudinal Study to Examine Progression from Vaping to Smoking among Young People Finds No Effect of Vaping
The first longitudinalstudy that examines progression from vaping to smoking among young people has been published in the journalAddictive Behaviors. The study followed college freshmen at Virginia Commonwealth University for one year to examine whether vaping at baseline was associated with the progression from never smoking to ever and/or current smoking at follow-up.(See: Spindle TR, et al. Electronic cigarette use and uptake of cigarette smoking: A longitudinal examination of U.S. college students.Addictive Behaviors 2017; 67:66-72.)As reported by Dr. Stan Glantz, the major finding of the study was that:" controlling f...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - January 6, 2017 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

Physician Says that Youth Vaping Leads to Crack Cocaine Addiction
In anarticle published on New Year ' s Eve in thePhiladelphia Inquirer, a physician from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine tackles what should have been a very simple question: " Are e-cigarettes any safer for my child than tobacco? "The actual answer, based on the scientific evidence, is unequivocally " Yes. " However, that ' s not her answer.The Rest of the StoryInstead of simply acknowledging that e-cigarettes are indeed safer than smoking tobacco, the physician gives a five-paragraph answer in which she never actually answers the question. If anything, her dire warnings about the unknown risks of e-cigar...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - January 5, 2017 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

You Can't Identify Potential Benefits of E-Cigarettes if You Only Look for the Risks: The Flaw in Current E-Cigarette Research
In this study, only risks are quantified and although the beneficial outcome was measured, it was not analyzed or reported. To properly inform the FDA so that it can formulate rational policies, the agency needs to know about both the negative and positive consequences of a potential action. This paper is only telling part of the story. (Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary)
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - January 3, 2017 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

Switching to Vaping Improves Health of Smokers with COPD
This study adds to the evidence that electronic cigarettes can play a significant role in achieving harm reduction among smokers who are unable to quit using traditional methods. Why anti-tobacco groups and many health agencies are discouraging smokers from using e-cigarettes to quit smoking is baffling. Ironically, the tobacco companies are encouraging smokers to quit using e-cigarettes, but the health groups apparently don ' t want to see that happen. There is something very wrong in the modern practice of tobacco control. (Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary)
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - December 20, 2016 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs