Oregon State Health Department Claims that Nicotine-Based E-Cigarettes are Causing Respiratory Disease Outbreak
In anop-ed piece published yesterday in theOregonian, the Oregon state health department claims that a substantial proportion of cases of the vaping-associated respiratory illness outbreak are caused not by THC/CBD vaping, but by nicotine-containing electronic cigarettes. The piece claims that: " we can say the hospitalizations and deaths are not exclusively attributable to cannabis use. "This is very different from claiming that wedo not yet know definitively whether some nicotine-containing e-liquids are causing the illness. Instead, the statement claims that wedo knowthat many casesare being caused by electronic cigaret...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - November 25, 2019 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Massive Irony: American Heart Association is Lying to the Public in a Campaign Attacking E-Cigarette Companies for Lying
The American Heart Association has unveiled a newcampaign which uses the hashtag #QuitLying and the website quitlying.org. The campaign is directed against " Big Vape " and it attacks e-cigarette companies for lying to the public. Among the lies that the American Heart Association claims e-cigarette companies are making are:(1) that vaping is different than smoking; and(2) that e-cigarettes can help smokers to quit smoking.They claim that the lying on the part of e-cigarette companies is " leading more people to smoking " and has " landed hundreds of e-cigarette users in hospitals. "The Rest of the StoryIn a massive ironic...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - November 24, 2019 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
My Testimony Today Regarding the Massachusetts Emergency Ban on the Sale of Electronic Cigarettes
Testimony of Michael Siegel, MD, MPHProfessor, Boston University School of Public HealthNovember 22, 2019The Department of Public Health justified its emergency order by arguing that removing vaping products from the market would protect the public – and especially youth – from the vaping-associated respiratory disease outbreak that has now affected more than 2,000 people and caused 47 deaths.However, unbeknownst to many, this emergency order wasnot successfulin removing all vaping products from the market. In fact, the Department ’s emergency order exempted – and therefore failed to remove from the market - a larg...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - November 22, 2019 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Case of Popcorn Lung in Canada Due to E-Cigarettes? Not so Fast
It is being widely reported in the media that there was recently a case of " popcorn lung " in Canada that was due to the use of e-cigarettes. These reports are exaggerated and inaccurate representations of a medical journalarticle published in theCanadian Medical Association Journal.The article reports the case of a 17-year-old patient who presented with severe respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation. A chest CT scan revealed a " bud-in-tree " pattern which is consistent with a diagnosis of bronchiolitis. Because the study authors had heard that some e-liquids contain a flavoring called diacetyl, which has li...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - November 22, 2019 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Massachusetts Legislators' Rush to Judgment on Vaping Is Destined to Cause More Harm
Jeffrey A. SingerReacting to a media-fueled panic surrounding teen vaping, Massachusetts legislators this weekbanned the sale of all flavored e-cigarettes, including menthol, and levied a 75 percent excise tax on vaping products. This was portrayed as “a forceful response to an epidemic in which one out of every five Massachusetts high-schoolers use e-cigarettes.” In reality, it is an impulsive act that ignores the evidence and endangers public health.Teen vaping rates should not be viewed in a vacuum. According to theNational Youth Tobacco Survey teen tobacco smoking is at anall-time low. Professor Michael Siegel of B...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 22, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
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Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - November 20, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Laura Edward Tags: featured health and fitness productivity tips food for brain food for the mind foods that make your smarter productive productive people Source Type: blogs
CDC and Anti-E-Cigarette Researcher Still Clinging to Faint Hope that Traditional E-Cigarettes are Causing Outbreak
It is now apparent that, as many of us figured out months ago, the use of vitamin E acetate oil as a thickening agent in THC vaping cartridges and perhaps other counterfeit or adulterated black market vaping products is causing the vaping-associated respiratory illness outbreak. Nevertheless, the CDC and at least one prominent anti-e-cigarette researcher have not yet given up in their attempt to pin the outbreak on traditional e-cigarettes which they apparently despise.The CDC continues to term this outbreak " E-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury. " This is an extremely odd name, especially because of...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - November 11, 2019 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
CDC Study on Vaping-Related Lung Injuries Strengthens the Case for Cannabis Legalization
Jeffrey A. SingerIn what it hailed as a “breakthrough, ” on November 8, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published the results of itsanalysis of lung fluid samples from 29 different patients hospitalized for vaping related illness in 10 different states. All 29 samples were found to contain vitamin E acetate, the synthetic form of vitamin E. Vitamin E acetate is an oil, and is suitable for ingesting, but can cause severe lung damage if inhaled.Vitamin E acetate is commonly used as the vehicle for delivering THC, the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, in vaping cartridges. The CDCreported that 86 perce...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 9, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
CDC Announces " Major Breakthrough " that I Recognized and Reported Two Months Ago; Outbreak is Almost Certainly Not Associated with Legal Nicotine Vapes
Minutes ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced what they called a "major breakthrough" in its investigation of the vaping-associated respiratory illness outbreak. They tested lung tissue samples from 29 case patients and all 29 (100%) were found to contain vitamin E acetate oil.This finding does represent a major breakthrough for four reasons:1. The vitamin E acetate oil was detected in the actual lung tissue of the case patients.2. The vitamin E acetate oil was detected in every single one of the lung tissue samples from these 29 case patients.3. The samples came from 10 different states...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - November 8, 2019 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Wisconsin Physician Warns Public That A Single Puff from a Nicotine Vape Could Kill You
There is an inordinate amount of unjustified hysteria about the dangers of electronic cigarettes. And it continues to drive me crazy to read article after article which talks about how a 17-year-old youth almost died and had to be put on a ventilator for several days and then immediately transitions to a discussion of the health dangers of nicotine-containing e-cigarettes, which dominates the remainder of the article. If you ' re lucky, there is at most one sentence which parenthetically notes that the youth was vaping THC.It is also tremendously frustrating to read statement after statement from the CDC in which it notes ...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - November 8, 2019 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
New CDC Report Out Today Makes it Even Less Likely that Store-Bought Nicotine E-Cigarettes are Playing Any Role in the Outbreak
A newreport published today in theMMWR summarizes the results of the most detailed investigation to date of cases of the outbreak of vaping-associated respiratory illness, focusing on the 83 confirmed cases occurring in the state of Utah. The key findings of the report are as follows:92% of the patients for whom product use was ascertained admitted to using THC vapes (only 3 out of 53 - 6% - did not).Of the THC products tested, 89% contained vitamin E acetate oil.No abnormalities were found in any of the nicotine e-liquids tested.The report concludes that “unregulated THC-containing cartridges play an important role in t...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - October 22, 2019 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Utah Department of Health Concludes that THC Vape Cartridges are Causing Respiratory Disease Outbreak; Issues Specific Warning against Use of THC Oils
Unlike most other state health departments, which are conflating the respiratory disease outbreak associated with black market (and a few legal dispensary-sold) THC vaping products and the general problem of youth e-cigarette use, the Utah Department of Health has issued areport which unequivocally concludes that vaping marijuana is causing severe respiratory illness, which has now affected 71 residents in the state.Unlike the CDC and many state health departments, which are doing everything they can to undermine the observed connection between outbreak cases and marijuana vaping, the Utah Department of Health concluded th...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - October 7, 2019 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
In Response to Two Deaths Due to Marijuana Vaping, Oregon Health Department Recommends Ban on Nicotine-Containing Electronic Cigarettes
In response to two deaths that it says were attributable to vaping cannabis purchased from legal state dispensaries and three additional cases that were linked to cannabis products purchased from state dispensaries, the Oregon Health Authority is recommending that allnicotine-containing (non-cannabis) electronic cigarettes should be banned for six months.According to anarticle byOregon Public Broadcasting: " Officials with the Oregon Health Authority recommended Gov. Kate Brown ban vaping products in the state for six months, following a second vaping-related death Thursday. " This recommendation is for a ban onall va...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - September 30, 2019 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
CDC's Failure to Demand Urine THC Testing of All Outbreak Patients is Inexcusable and is Putting the Entire Nation at Risk
The CDC has irresponsibly botched its entire investigation of vaping-associated respiratory illness (VARI) by failing to recommend or demand that clinicians perform a urine THC drug test on every case patient, and this is putting the entire nation at risk while leading to terrible public policies that are causing immediate harm to thousands of people.The CDC continues to insist that we have no idea what is causing this " mystery illness " and that " no single product " has been identified that explains all of the cases. This statement, which violates basic principles of epidemiological outbreak investigations, is the singl...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - September 27, 2019 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Using Its Emergency Powers, Rest of the Story Issues Four-Month Temporary Ban on Further E-Cigarette Bans
Today, I am bypassing the usual rulemaking process and using my emergency powers to declare a public health emergency and accordingly, I am issuing a four-month, temporary ban on politicians enacting further electronic cigarette bans.The purpose of this public health emergency is to temporarily pause all knee-jerk reaction e-cigarette bans so that we can work with our vaping and cannabis market experts to identify what is actually making people sick and how to better regulate these products to protect the health of our residents without putting thousands of small business owners out of work, forcing thousands of ex-smokers...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - September 27, 2019 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
