Blog Post
June 14, 2013
The United Kingdom will regulate all nicotine-containing products, including e-cigarettes, as medicines, starting in 2016. The British bureaucrats justified their decision: “Our research has shown that existing electronic cigarettes and other nicotine-containing products on the market are not good enough to meet this public health priority [i.e., "reducing the harms of smoking to smokers and [...]
Op Ed
Tobacco Truth • June 7, 2013
The 20-year-old Cochrane Collaboration is widely recognized for compiling and analyzing thousands of clinical trials, providing health professionals with useful information, in the form of authoritative analyses and reports, for clinical practice. Regrettably, Cochrane’s reputation was tarnished last week when it issued a report on smoking cessation medications. The report conveys the inaccurate impression that [...]
Media Mention
Sunshine State News • June 4, 2013
From Sunshine State News: Rubio is drawing on the conservative movement to support his proposed amendment which supporters have dubbed the Right to Refuse Amendment. Right-of-center organizations supporting Rubio’s proposal include Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), the R Street Institute, American Commitment, the Center for Individual Freedom [...]
Blog Post
June 1, 2013
In a truly stunning announcement, April 1, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced its intention to lift many restrictions on labeling of over-the-counter Nicotine Replacement Therapy drugs; allow multiple NRT products to be used concurrently, and concurrently with cigarettes; and to substitute the current firm limitation of 8 to 12 weeks with a squishy recommendation [...]
Op Ed
Tobacco Truth • May 31, 2013
In their efforts to prevent teen smoking, tobacco control advocates focus almost exclusively on tobacco manufacturers. For example, a CDC press release for World No Tobacco Day (today, May 31) attributes youth tobacco use solely to tobacco marketing. Last year’s Surgeon General’s report, “Preventing Tobacco Use among Youth and Young Adults,” was blunt: “Advertising and [...]
Op Ed
Tobacco Truth • May 24, 2013
I have discussed a study reporting that smokeless tobacco contains trace levels of several metals, including cadmium, arsenic, nickel, chromium and lead. Now, researchers at the University of California-Riverside report that the aerosol from an undisclosed e-cigarette contained numerous metals. The study, whose lead author is Monique Williams, appears in PLoS One. It notes a [...]
Op Ed
Tobacco Truth • May 20, 2013
As previously noted here, e-cigarettes are winning over American smokers. E-cigs’ vapor of nicotine, water and propylene glycol is vastly safer than smoke, and these products satisfy smokers’ behavioral cues. Marketers have enjoyed a regulatory moratorium since federal Judge Richard Leon blocked the FDA’s attempt to regulate e-cigs as drug-delivery devices in 2008 and 2009. [...]
Op Ed
Tobacco Truth • May 10, 2013
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s 2003 prison smoking ban produced a pervasive black market, where single cigarettes cost inmates $30, and a pack runs as high as $200, according to the Daily News. That might sound shocking, but I predicted those unintended consequences nine years ago in a column for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, after [...]
News Release
May 3, 2013
LANSING, Mich. (May 3, 2013) – Legislation approved last night by the Michigan House Insurance Committee will help tame out-of-control claims costs that have led the state’s drivers to pay the second-highest auto insurance rates in the nation, the R Street Institute said. Sponsored by Insurance Committee Chairman Pete Lund, R-Shelby Township, H.B. 4612 would [...]
Op Ed
Tobacco Truth • May 2, 2013
One of the longstanding federal warnings on smokeless tobacco is: “This product can cause gum disease and tooth loss.” This warning has no scientific basis. I previously discussed a study from Sweden concluding that snus use was not associated with gum disease. A 2012 study by the same research group concluded that “snus use does [...]
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