• CBS Mornings’ Tony Dokoupil Highlights UK’s Support for Vaping as a Quit-Smoking Tool vs. U.S. Head-in-the-Sand Denial

    Updated: 2023-04-18 19:12:00
    : . . 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 Tuesday , April 18, 2023 CBS Mornings’ Tony Dokoupil Highlights UK’s Support for Vaping as a Quit-Smoking Tool vs . U.S . Head-in-the-Sand Denial Broadcast journalist Tony Dokoupil co-anchors CBS . Mornings” Last year , Variety magazine reported , He’s also developing a reputation for explaining abstract concepts to viewers in ways that make the subjects stick . 8221 Dokoupil says he emphasizes talking to regular people where the story is happening and happening to them . 8221 What’s happening is that 480,000 Americans per year

  • 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

  • Who Smokes Menthols? 2020 Update from a Federal Survey

    Updated: 2023-03-08 15:59:00
    : 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 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

  • Exposing Defective Research, But Denied Credit for the Effort: Case 2

    Updated: 2023-03-01 20:29:00
    : , : 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 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

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