American Teens’ Gross Misperception of Nicotine Leaves FDA Study Authors Unperturbed
Updated: 2023-03-27 19:00:00
: skip to main skip to sidebar Tobacco Truth Tobacco Control has morphed into a crusade intent on demonizing both tobacco users and the industry supplying them . This blog examines and comments on scientific issues surrounding tobacco policies and . fallacies Monday , March 27, 2023 American Teens’ Gross Misperception of Nicotine Leaves FDA Study Authors Unperturbed A new study by Erin Keely O’Brien and colleagues at the FDA Center for Tobacco Products CTP underscores the FDA’s failure to accurately educate consumers about . nicotine The report appears in Nicotine Tobacco Research The authors analyzed perceptions of nicotine among 12-17 year-old participants during two waves of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health PATH study , in 2016-17 and 2017-18. While their journal article
: skip to main skip to sidebar Tobacco Truth Tobacco Control has morphed into a crusade intent on demonizing both tobacco users and the industry supplying them . This blog examines and comments on scientific issues surrounding tobacco policies and . fallacies Wednesday , March 8, 2023 Who Smokes Menthols 2020 Update from a Federal Survey Four years ago , I discussed the characteristics of Americans who are menthol smokers based on data in the CDC’s 2015 National Health Interview Survey NHIS the agency’s main instrument for monitoring U.S . smoking trends , including consumption of menthol . products Despite the FDA’s strong interest in banning menthol smokes , the CDC did not collect menthol information again until 2022. Since that data is not yet public , I am using the National Survey on
: , : skip to main skip to sidebar Tobacco Truth Tobacco Control has morphed into a crusade intent on demonizing both tobacco users and the industry supplying them . This blog examines and comments on scientific issues surrounding tobacco policies and . fallacies Wednesday , March 1, 2023 Exposing Defective Research , But Denied Credit for the Effort : Case 2 Two weeks ago I described a flawed mortality study by National Cancer Institute staff that led to a correction but no recognition for our group’s work in uncovering the . errors Here we detail a second , similar case , involving a vaping study by faculty at Columbia and the University of Arkansas , including a former member of the FDA Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee TPSAC Emine Bircan and colleagues in April 2021
: skip to main skip to sidebar Tobacco Truth Tobacco Control has morphed into a crusade intent on demonizing both tobacco users and the industry supplying them . This blog examines and comments on scientific issues surrounding tobacco policies and . fallacies Thursday , February 23, 2023 High School Vaping Up Slightly in 2022, But Smoking Rates Remained Vanishingly Low Reviewing CDC data from the 2022 National Youth Tobacco Survey NYTS I have confirmed the agency’s finding that 14.1 of high school students 2.15 million reported current past 30 day e-cigarette use , an increase of 2.9 or about 430,000 students . The survey also indicates that high school cigarette smoking was stable at 2 Yet , once again , the CDC’s data , and the agency’s spin on it , raises some critical . concerns First 
: . skip to main skip to sidebar Tobacco Truth Tobacco Control has morphed into a crusade intent on demonizing both tobacco users and the industry supplying them . This blog examines and comments on scientific issues surrounding tobacco policies and . fallacies Wednesday , February 8, 2023 U.S . UK Vaping Rates Similar Among Youth Young Adults I have previously commented on the so-called American teen vaping . epidemic” Using federal data , I have shown how the CDC and the FDA exaggerate the magnitude of vaping , portraying a fake crisis here here here here here here and here This post compares the prevalence of vaping among young people in the United States and the . UK In the latter country , e-cigarettes have been welcomed and endorsed by the public health establishment as effective