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Nicotine

Vaping

Fifth Circuit Grants En Banc Rehearing to Challenge to FDA Rejection of Vaping Products

Another potential legal setback for the FDA's attempt to regulate electronic cigarettes as tobacco products.

Jonathan H. Adler |The Volokh Conspiracy | 1.19.2023 9:54 PM

a man using a vaporizer

Vaping

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.

Jacob Sullum | 1.4.2023 2:05 PM

New Zealand bans cigarette sales to anyone born after 2008

Nanny State

New Zealand Bans Cigarette Sales to Anyone Born After 2008. Forever.

The country's strategy ignores the failures of prohibition.

Emma Camp | 12.14.2022 2:23 PM

a man using a vaporizer

Vaping

Diseases That Studies Linked to E-Cigarettes Generally Were Diagnosed Before Subjects Began Vaping

The failure to consider the timing of diagnoses makes it impossible to draw causal inferences.

Jacob Sullum | 12.13.2022 5:45 PM

Hookah club owner, Raed Dear

Vaping

Oregon's Anti-Vape Laws Will Put This Deaf Immigrant's Hookah Shop Out of Business

You can smoke all the pot you want, but flavored tobacco or nicotine is soon to be illegal.

Jacob Grier | 12.9.2022 4:45 PM

Menthol cigarettes

Cigarettes

California Voters Keep State Ban on Flavored Tobacco and Vapes

Bring on the black market.

Scott Shackford | 11.9.2022 12:21 AM

FDA Commissioner Robert Califf testifying

Vaping

New Survey Data Cast Further Doubt on the FDA's Opposition to Flavored E-Cigarettes

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.

Jacob Sullum | 8.25.2022 3:40 PM

woman vapes with Juul

Prohibition

The FDA's War on Juul Will Kill People

Bureaucrats say they want to save lives. But they're moving to block a tool that is proven to help smokers quit entirely.

Veronique de Rugy | 6.30.2022 2:35 PM

Juul vape and cartridges with the word DENIED stamped next to them

Nicotine

In a Surprise Move, the FDA Denies Approval for Juul Tobacco and Menthol Vapes

What was once a classic Silicon Valley success story has become the victim of an intensely ideological war on nicotine.

Guy Bentley | 6.22.2022 11:58 AM

hand holding a smoking cigarette

Nicotine

Mandating Low-Nicotine Cigarettes Could Make Smoking More Dangerous

Plus: Supreme Court rules on school choice and criminal justice reform, Louisiana's trigger law criminalizes abortion at any stage, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 6.22.2022 9:30 AM

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Nicotine

Welcome to the Nicotine Prohibition Era

Regulators have long targeted tobacco products, but there's new energy behind outright bans on vapes and cigarettes.

Jacob Grier | 4.2.2022 6:00 AM

Tobacco

Tax Buried in the "Build Back Better" Bill Is Likely to Increase Smoking Rates

Whatever else the BBB bill will do, this provision is bad for public health and could increase smoking's death toll.

Jonathan H. Adler |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.22.2021 11:08 AM

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Taxes

A Federal Vaping Tax Is Bad Policy and Bad Politics

The proposed vaping tax has caused a third Democrat to join Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema in opposing the bill.

Eric Boehm | 11.12.2021 2:50 PM

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Biden Administration

How Biden's Vaccine Mandates Degrade Social Trust

Plus, how his tax hikes won't actually help anyone, either.

Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 9.13.2021 4:15 PM

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Taxes

Democrats Try To Hide a $3 Trillion Tax Increase From Voters

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.

Ira Stoll | 9.13.2021 2:45 PM

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