E-Cigarette Falsehoods from the President of the American Medical Association
Updated: 2025-01-29 19:40:00
: 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 , January 29, 2025 E-Cigarette Falsehoods from the President of the American Medical Association American Medical Association President Bruce A . Scott , M.D . authored an article , posted on the AMA website today , Flavored e-cigarettes pose dire threat to youth and public health that includes the following : Tobacco products cause cancer . Overwhelming evidence demonstrates that multiple types of cancer are linked to tobacco products , nbsp including e-cigarettes This is grossly incorrect , as Dr . Scott intentionally
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: 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 , January 9, 2025 Federal Surveys Demonstrate E-Cigarettes Have Been Successful Quit-Smoking Aids For a Decade New research based on U.S . government survey data shows , The most popular methods used to stop smoking were nicotine products 53.9 1.5 million adults especially e-cigarettes in combination with other methods 40.8 1.2 million and e-cigarettes alone 26.0 0.7 million confidence intervals removed by me Additionally , Prescription drug products 8.1 0.2 million and non-nicotine , non-prescription drug methods 6.3 0.2
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: 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 Saturday , January 4, 2025 5 Vaping Facts” You Don’t Want to Know Dr . Michael Blaha , Director of Clinical Research at the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease , has published an article titled , 5 Vaping Facts You Need to . Know The piece contains a number of glaring . falsehoods I should note my profound disappointment with this article , as Dr . Blaha recently joined me and Sally Satel as faculty members of the since- cancelled Medscape medical education course on tobacco harm reduction THR Despite Dr
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: 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 Sunday , December 29, 2024 Economists Document the Harms of Vapor Bans Throughout my tobacco research career I have found conventional public health professionals inflexibly intolerant of tobacco harm . reduction So I have worked with talented economists who are doctrinal . agnostics That is , they are driven by data and evidence . And the evidence increasingly shows the damage of vapor . bans In this guest post , Clive Bates highlights the findings of recent studies by . economists Abigail Friedman and colleagues have published a
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: 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 , December 16, 2024 Tobacco Prohibitionists Kill Safer Cigarette Substitutes and Smokers Dr . Michael Siegel has published a blog entry criticizing a new article in American Journal of Medicine claim[ing that youths who use e-cigarettes are 5 times more likely to become cigarette smokers . 8221 The commentary was authored by tobacco and nicotine opponents Pamela Ling and Edward . Goetzl Dr . Siegel correctly notes , the article in question fails to provide any citation or source for its preposterous claim Apparently , we are
: : 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 , December 12, 2024 Up in Smoke : The American Heart Association on Smokeless Tobacco The American Heart Association published a policy statement in its journal Circulation , titled Impact of Smokeless Oral Nicotine Products on Cardiovascular Disease . 8221 here Below , I cite with permission excerpts from a review by Clive Bates , along with my comments The smokeless tobacco ST policy statement from the American Heart Association is too long to review in depth , but my main take outs : are 1. It’s a modest improvement 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 Friday , December 6, 2024 A Deeper Dive into High School Vaping from the 2023 National Youth Tobacco Survey The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC reports that about 1.56 million U.S . high school students were current users i.e . past 30 days of e-cigarettes or other vaping products in 2023. Although this number is substantially lower than at vaping’s peak in 2019 here it is still represented as a public health crisis by anti-tobacco . crusaders This post takes a closer look at this number by examining other factors that