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Selling Tobacco to Kids: FDA Inspection Data from 2015 and 2016

A September 15 Food & Drug Administration press release (here) states that the agency “has taken action against 55 tobacco retailers by issuing the first warning letters for selling newly regulated tobacco products, such as e-cigarettes, e-liquids and cigars, to minors.” The FDA compliance check program aims to assure that retailers – both brick-and-mortar and online – don’t sell tobacco products…

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#agency #fda #five-or-more #inspections #ntso #order #retailers #that-the-agency #tobacco #tobacco-sale

American Cancer Society & CDC Withheld Evidence on Safer Smokeless Products

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the American Cancer Society (ACS) have a long history of suppressing information about the relative risks of smokeless tobacco (ST) products. (CDC example here) CDC and ACS researchers in 2007 jointly published a mortality study of smokers who had switched to ST (here). Using data from the ACS 2nd Cancer Prevention Survey (CPS-II), they reported that…

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#acs #cdc #chief #fda #king #officer #private #relative risk #united-states

FDA Cigar Study Part II: Heart & Lung Disease Nearly Zero for 1-2 Cigars Per Day

As noted in my last blog post (here), data presented in a recent FDA review of cigar health risks (here) showed that smoking up to two cigars per day, while not completely safe, is neither associated with significantly increased risks for death from all causes, nor smoking-related cancers. Now we examine the FDA data regarding cigar-related circulatory and lung diseases. Here are the overall…

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#aneurysm #disease #emphysema #jacobs #king #relative #relative-risks

New Risk Factor for Mouth & Throat Cancer: Hepatitis C Virus

Hepatitis C is a risk factor for mouth and throat cancer, say researchers from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (abstract here). Hep C is a serious viral infection of the liver, mainly transmitted through infected blood via shared needles and accidental needle sticks or through sexual contact (here). It can cause liver damage and failure, and it is a risk factor for liver cancer.…

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#cancer #from-the-university #hepatitis #hepatitis c virus #mouth-or-throat #parag #parag-mahale #texas #the-researchers #throat cancer #university

FDA Study: Cancer Risks Nearly Nil for 1-2 Cigars Per Day

The FDA, which now regulates cigars, has taken the position that “cigar smoking carries many of the same health risks as cigarette smoking.” The agency is requiring cigar packages and ads to display six new warnings, including: Cigar smoking can cause cancers of the mouth and throat, even if you do not inhale. Cigar smoking can cause lung cancer and heart disease. Cigars are not a safe…

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#chang #cigars #relative risk #relative-risks #schlomo #shanks #studies #table

Low-Tar Cigarettes Had Merit, Said American Cancer Society; So Do E-Cigarettes

E-cigarette opponents routinely claim that e-cigarettes benefit from industry-promoted consumer health misconceptions in the same manner that so-called light cigarettes soared in popularity years ago, when, it is alleged, marketers created a mythology about the relative safety of “reduced tar.” In reality, there is more truth in those light claims than people suspect. According to one heavily…

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#american-cancer #journal #leffall #light cigarettes #low tar #medicine #president #public #smokers

FDA Vapor Regs Analogy for Non-Vapers

Don’t get why the FDA vapor product regulations are ridiculous? Let us give you a more relatable analogy… Imagine that some small, upstart tech company developed a car that significantly reduces accidents and emissions, and makes driving at least 95% safer for the public and cleaner for the environment. Except the government, environmental groups and insurance companies claim that the remaining…

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#because-the-law #claim-the-new #company #deeming #don #existing #public #regulations

A Smokeless History Lesson For Vaping Advocates

E-cigarettes are under siege by federal health authorities and NGOs, aided and abetted by countless university researchers funded generously by the National Institutes of Health (here). Many of their tactics were introduced 35 years ago. Here, in brief, is the story of smokeless. The American anti-smokeless campaign started on March 26, 1981, when Deborah Winn, Ph.D., reported in the New England…

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#antonia novello #cancer #kentucky #national #richard carmona #surgeon #united #washington #william

How Many Americans Vape? CDC Data Show Fewer Vapers & Smokers in 2015

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2015 National Health Interview Survey – the source for national smoking estimates – reveals surprising e-cigarette facts, summarized in the chart. These figures demonstrate a 7% drop in current vapers from the 8.9 million reported in 2014 (here), due largely to a 29% decline in the number of current smokers who vape. In the NHIS survey respondents…

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#cdc #current smoking #health #king #national #prevention #research #survey

Is Snus Safer Than Dip or Chew? Health Effects of All Are Close to Zero

Free of government regulation, The Swedish Tobacco Experience has seen the use of snus (Swedish moist snuff) largely account for the lowest prevalence of smoking among men in developed countries for decades. A persistent misconception is the belief that snus is safer than American moist snuff or chewing tobacco. The belief is based on the fact that Swedish snus has lower levels of trace…

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#disease #diseases #government #oropharyngeal #pancreatic #research #smokeless #studies #swedish

U.K. E-Cigarette Perceptions More Accurate than U.S.

Words, and honesty, matter in communicating public health advice. Today, survey data in the U.K. and the U.S. demonstrate the effects of truth-telling versus obfuscation regarding e-cigarettes. I have previously noted stark differences in the characterization of e-cigarette use by health authorities in the two countries (here). Evidence-based assessments by Public Health England (here) and the…

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#americans #cancer #college #england #health #hints #institute #king #misinformation #public-health #smokeless tobacco risks

Smokeless Tobacco Helps U.S. Air Force Achieve Low Smoking Rate

“According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, smokeless tobacco is just as harmful as smoking…” This egregiously false claim appeared in a June 8 Air Force Times article by Phillip Swarts (here). A mountain of scientific evidence amassed over two decades attests that smokeless tobacco use is at least 98% safer than smoking (here and here). Further, while the CDC has been less than…

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#agency #american #cdc #force #government #king #prevention #scientific

FDA Tobacco Regulation Begins with Deception

The FDA Center for Tobacco Products persists in misleading the public. Its website (here) misrepresents the facts with the statement “…tobacco use continues to be the leading cause of preventable death and disease in the United States.” CTP bureaucrats know that smoking, not tobacco, is a leading cause of death and disease. But tobacco prohibitionists willfully obscure the scientific truth that…

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#disease #fda #health #king #medical #research #scientific #states

FDA Deeming Rule Threatens Vapers’ Options and Health

Smokers and vapers, this post is for you. The FDA’s proposed deeming rule could severely limit your e-cigarette choices in the next few years. FDA tobacco center director Mitch Zeller and HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell cast the FDA rule as necessary to protect children from products that lead to cigarette use. That argument has no scientific basis. Government surveys provide no evidence that…

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#agriculture #cole-bishop #congress #father #fda regulatory purgatory #governmental #king #market #mitch zeller

Phantom Gateway: Kids Who Ever Try Stuff Are More Likely to Ever Try Other Stuff

Here we go again. The journal Pediatrics just published a study claiming that e-cigarettes are a gateway to cigarettes. In fact, the report simply demonstrates that kids who ever tried one tobacco product are more likely than never triers to ever try another tobacco product (abstract here). The current study, by Jessica Barrington-Trimis, Ph.D., and co-workers, is a follow-up on research…

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#authors #barrington #california #cigarette #cigarettes #current #graders #misinformation #product #sixteen #southern-california #youth e-cigarette use

CDC Knows that Its Data Puts Smokeless Tobacco Risks Near Zero

Knowing that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has the means to calculate deaths due to smokeless tobacco – a statistic that is likely to be near zero – I encouraged readers (here) to call the agency at 800-232-4636 or email them (here) to demand data and sources on the precise dangers of smokeless tobacco use. Three of my blog readers requested this information from the CDC and shared the…

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#cdc #control #current #disease #diseases #health #interview #national #risks #smoking #surgeon

E-Cigarette Battery Hazards Minuscule and Overblown

Breathless reports of e-cigarette battery explosions have appeared recently in the Journal of the American Dental Association (here) and Cornea (here). The latter article, alluding to a “number of media reports,” claimed that “e-cigarettes pose a significant public health risk.” Clive Bates labeled that claim “inappropriate and alarmist” in his excellent PubMed Commons comment (here). Bates…

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#american-dental #association #cornea #emergency #fema #king #states #twenty-five #united

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