A Medical Journal Retracts a 2022 Study That Linked Vaping to Cancer
The obvious problems with the article reflect a broader pattern that suggests a peer review bias against e-cigarettes.
The obvious problems with the article reflect a broader pattern that suggests a peer review bias against e-cigarettes.
The agency is determined to ban the flavors that former smokers overwhelmingly prefer. For the children.
The failure to consider the timing of diagnoses makes it impossible to draw causal inferences.
You can smoke all the pot you want, but flavored tobacco or nicotine is soon to be illegal.
By making e-cigarettes less appealing, it will discourage smokers from switching to a much less hazardous nicotine habit.
People with money on the line try harder than pundits to be right, and they adjust quickly when they've made a mistake.
Bring on the black market.
Voters have shown a propensity to veto the meddlesome efforts of lawmakers in the past.
The CDC is still citing underage consumption as a reason to restrict adult access.
The FDA's nicotine restrictions will push consumers toward black-market suppliers, who are completely unconstrained by the FDA’s regulations.
Don’t expect a change in course, despite the long-awaited admission.
The "epidemic" of adolescent vaping seems to be fading fast, and vaping is replacing smoking among adults, a harm-reducing trend that regulators seem determined to discourage.
The likelihood that the Supreme Court considers the FDA's treatment of vaping products is increasing.
Something is wrong at the Food & Drug Administration's Center for Tobacco Products, and federal courts are beginning to notice.
The agency’s policies would boost the black market and smoking-related deaths.
Bureaucrats say they want to save lives. But they're moving to block a tool that is proven to help smokers quit entirely.
The principle has implications that go far beyond abortion. Some of them deserve far more attention than they have gotten to this point.
In a move that is likely to undermine public health, the agency warns that products containing synthetic nicotine "will be subject to FDA enforcement."
The agency's obsession with adolescent vaping is driving decisions that undermine public health.
It’s likely to happen any day now.
The agency ignores downward trends in both kinds of nicotine use and obscures the huge difference in the hazards they pose.
A spending bill provision would redefine "tobacco products" to include products that have nothing to do with tobacco.
The findings reinforce the case for nicotine vaping products as a harm-reducing alternative to cigarettes.
The justices show little interest in vaping regulation on the shadow docket, but may yet review the FDA's behavior in the regular course.
The perverse provision would have discouraged smokers from switching to a far less hazardous source of nicotine.
Vaping regulation gets some attention on the Shadow Docket
An electronic cigarette manufacturer seeks a stay of FDA action from the Supreme Court.
Whatever else the BBB bill will do, this provision is bad for public health and could increase smoking's death toll.
Cigarette sales rose last year for the first time in two decades, while a survey of high school seniors found they were vaping less but smoking more.
If teenagers like an e-liquid flavor, the agency seems to think, adults should not be allowed to buy it.
The agency seems inclined to ban the vaping products that former smokers overwhelmingly prefer because teenagers also like them.
Although Raja Krishnamoorthi says "adults can do what they want," he is determined not to let them.
E-cigarette regulations and taxes threaten an industry that could prevent millions of premature deaths.
House Democrats' proposed excise taxes could double or triple the price of some vaping products.
The plan would make a liar out of Biden on a level reminiscent of George H.W. Bush's betrayal of his "read my lips" tax pledge.
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The agency's decisions so far reflect a bias against the flavored e-liquids that former smokers overwhelmingly prefer.
Instead of trusting the science, the FDA will treat adults like children.
Undue emphasis on unproven risks to youth may have undermined efforts to control smoking, costing lives in the process.
Government and the media aren't paying attention to the relative benefits of vaping over smoking tobacco.
Legislators cannot have it both ways.
Officials publicly congratulate themselves for protecting teens, but they know that they’re prodding young people to switch to cigarettes.
The pervasive anti-vaping narrative at the beginning of the pandemic had real consequences.
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The law bans mail delivery of vaping products and requires all vendors to comply with burdensome tax reporting rules.
The industry's fate depends on the whims of an agency charged with deciding what is "appropriate for public health."
The study suggests that vaping raises your risk of catching the disease, but only if you stop.
The debate over flavored vapes really is a debate about whether adult smokers will still have access to products that could save their lives.