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Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is Apparently Indoctrinating Youth to Lie About E-Cigarettes and Downplay the Health Hazards of Smoking
According to anarticle in theArizona Daily Star, a youth tobacco control advocate is going around telling other youth that vaping can kill you. He is quoted as stating:“Many think it’s just water vapor when really there’s nicotine, and nicotine is known to be an addictive chemical — it’s a natural pesticide and if your body takes in enough of it, it can kill you.”The Rest of the StoryThe story of a random youth from Arizona spreading false information about the risks of vaping would not ordinarily make headlines at theRest of the Story. But when I first started reading this article, something struck me as odd. ...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - August 23, 2016 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

New Study Purports to Show that E-Cigs are a Gateway to Smoking, But Provides No Evidence to Support that Conclusion
This study provides evidence that ecigarettes are recruiting lower risk adolescents to smoking, which has public health implications. "The Rest of the StoryThe rest of the story is that this study doesnot actually provide evidence that e-cigarettes are recruiting youths to smoking. What it shows is that experimentation with e-cigarettes is a much more sensitive marker of propensity to smoking than simply assessing rebelliousness or parental support or intentions to smoke.The major problem with the study is that it does not examine whether or not youth who experiment with e-cigarettes become addicted to vaping and then prog...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - August 20, 2016 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

Johns Hopkins Physician and Vaping Opponent Urges Parents to Lie to their Kids About the Hazards of Smoking
A physician with the Johns Hopkins All Children ' s Hospital, who is apparently a strong opponent of vaping, has advised parents to lie to their children about the hazards of smoking in order to dissuade them from using electronic cigarettes. Specifically, she urges parents to downplay the hazards of smoking so that kids will think that vaping is just as dangerous as smoking and will therefore avoid it at all cost.According to apost on the hospital web site:" E-cigarettes may appear to be a safer way to smoke, but they are just as dangerous for children. ... Scientists are just beginning to see the dangerous effects of vap...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - August 18, 2016 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

Vaping Opponents Continue to Just Make Up the " Facts "
In apparent desperation because the actual facts do not support their vigorous opposition to vaping, anti-vaping advocates continue to simply make up the " facts " as they go along.Just last week, a professor at Eastern Tennessee State University was quoted in anarticle in theJohnson City Press as stating that the increase in youth e-cigarette use means that vaping is bringing in new smokers.According to the article: " Dr. Hadii Mamudu, an East Tennessee State University assistant professor in the school ’s College of Public Health, is a world-wide recognized expert on this topic. One of his biggest evidence-based concer...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - August 16, 2016 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

FDA Bans Safety Improvements in E-Cigarettes and American Lung Association Supports this Unprecedented Regulatory Blunder
Last Monday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) committed one of the most bone-headed blunders I have ever witnessed in public health. The agency ' s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP)banned all safety improvements for electronic cigarettes and vaping products.This means that e-cigarette and e-liquid manufacturers can make no further improvements in the safety of their products, even if they become aware of severe and potentially life-threatening product defects.NOTE: This isnot a parody, and you arenot readingThe Onion. This is theactual regulation that the FDA put into effect on August 8th.In order to make a safe...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - August 15, 2016 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

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Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - August 5, 2016 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

FDA Tobacco Center Director to Ex-Smoking Vapers: You Don't Exist
According to anarticle in yesterday ' sWinston-Salem Journal, the head of the FDA ' s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) told the hundreds of thousands of ex-smokers in the U.S. who successfully quit smoking by switching to vaping that: " there is no definitive support of e-cigs playing a cessation role. "In other words, Mr. Zeller--the CTP director--is telling vapers that they don ' t exist, that their experiences never happened.This will come as news to the hundreds of thousands of vapers in the U.S. who did successfully quit smoking by switching to vaping. Survey data suggest that the actual number of ex-smokers who quit...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - August 2, 2016 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

Hiding the Truth from the Public: American Lung Association is Undermining the Public's Knowledge of the Hazards of Smoking
Last month, the American Lung Association (ALA) issued awarning about " popcorn lung " (bronchiolitis obliterans), telling the public that electronic cigarettes can cause this severe disease because the aerosol contains diacetyl, a chemical that has been linked to the development of popcorn lung in highly exposed popcorn workers who were exposed to diacetyl present in the butter flavoring. The Lung Association ' s statement was entitled: " Popcorn Lung: A Dangerous Risk of Flavored E-Cigarettes. "According to the American Lung Association: " When inhaled, diacetyl causes bronchiolitis obliterans - more commonly referred to...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - August 1, 2016 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

FDA Claims It Is Protecting Public Health by Keeping Slightly Altered Cigarettes Off the Market
Earlier this month, the FDA ' s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) < a href= " http://www.cspdailynews.com/category-news/tobacco/articles/fda-issues-not-substantially-equivalent-order-maverick-menthol " > denied < /a > a substantially equivalent order for Maverick Menthol Silver Box 100s cigarettes. This means that this cigarette brand can no longer be marketed and sold in the U.S. By definition, a " not substantially equivalent " order means that the FDA has deemed that the product raises < a href= " http://www.fda.gov/downloads/TobaccoProducts/Labeling/MarketingandAdvertising/UCM462409.pdf " > different questions of pub...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - July 28, 2016 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

Study Demonstrates Low Health Risks Associated with " Secondhand Vapor " from E-Cigarettes
A < a href= " http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24336346 " > study < /a > published in the journal Nicotine & amp; Tobacco Research demonstrates that " secondhand vapor " from e-cigarettes poses very little risk to bystanders. (See: Czogala J, et al. Secondhand exposure to vapors from electronic cigarettes. Nicotine & amp; Tobacco Research 2014; 16(6):655-662.) The study methods were as follows: " We measured selected airborne markers of secondhand exposure: nicotine, aerosol particles (PM(2.5)), carbon monoxide, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in an expos...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - July 27, 2016 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

FDA's Convoluted Response to a Simple Question Shows How Arbitrary, Capricious, and Inane the Deeming Regulations Are
Someone shared with me the actual reply they received from the FDA in response to a very simple question: " Are e-cigs that do not contain nicotine (or any other tobacco extracts) also covered by the FDA deeming regulations? & nbsp; If so, will they also require pre-market approval like products that do contain nicotine? " This seems like a simple and straightforward question that could and should be able to be answered with a simple " yes " or " no. " After all, if e-cigarettes do not contain nicotine then there is no basis for the FDA to assert jurisdiction over them as ...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - July 25, 2016 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

Great Article on Vaping
< a href= " http://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2016/07/22/e-cigs-public-health " > This < /a > is one of the best articles on vaping that I ' ve read. It makes a difference to have a young person ' s perspective because they are in the best position to have insight into the nature of smoking and vaping behavior among their peers. (Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary)
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - July 22, 2016 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

CDC Bemoans Failure to Decrease Overall Alcohol Product Use among Teens, Despite Large Decline in Current Drinking
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the prevalence of current drinking among high school students has declined dramatically in the past decade and a half, < a href= " https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/pdf/trends/us_alcohol_trend_yrbs.pdf " > dropping < /a > from 50.0% in 1999 to 34.9% in 2013. One would think that would be cause for celebration. However, the CDC is telling the public that despite this decline in drinking among youth, overall use of alcohol products has stayed the same. The Office on Alcohol and Health issued a statement yesterday, arguing...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - July 21, 2016 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

Groundbreaking Research Finds that Products which are Cool and New Appeal to Youths
Anti-Vaping Advocate Says this Finding Adds to Evidence that E-Cigs are a Gateway to Youth Use of Tobacco ProductsA groundbreaking study published yesterday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal presents the shocking finding that youth are drawn to products that are new and cool and that this is why they find electronic cigarettes appealing.The study, which involved a survey asking Ontario youth why they find e-cigarettes appealing, reported the startling finding that a major reason for youth e-cigarette experimentation is that they like "engaging in seemingly exciting new behaviours." The paper's final conclusion wa...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - July 20, 2016 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

Physician Recommends Against Quitting Smoking for Smokers Who Do Not Want to Use NRT or Cessation Drugs; Hides Conflict of Interest
An article in the Annals of Family Medicine argues that smokers who do not wish to use nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), varenicline, or other drugs should be counseled by their physicians not to quit smoking. Specifically, these patients should not be encouraged to try to quit using e-cigarettes. Moreover, the article scares physicians into thinking that if they do encourage smoking cessation via e-cigarettes, they are putting themselves into legal danger.According to the lead author - Dr. Adam Goldstein of the University of North Carolina - e-cigarettes are dangerous and have not shown to be helpful in smoking cessatio...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - July 19, 2016 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs