California's Vaping Flavor Ban Could Be Lethal
By making e-cigarettes less appealing, it will discourage smokers from switching to a much less hazardous nicotine habit.
By making e-cigarettes less appealing, it will discourage smokers from switching to a much less hazardous nicotine habit.
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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.
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It's about protecting adults from themselves, which should be none of the government’s business.
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The ordinance governing how food can be shared is designed to make it next to impossible to share food.
Voters have shown a propensity to veto the meddlesome efforts of lawmakers in the past.
Over time, betting has been a better predictor than polls, pundits, statistical models, and everything else.
Once again, policies billed as helping people coerced into prostitution wind up harming those that cops say they're trying to help.
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Hundred Acre's lawsuit alleges heavy-handed and extralegal enforcement by county environmental regulators.
Freeing up Virginia’s liquor market is more worthwhile than just busting its whiskey black market.
Plaintiffs want the nanny state to nanny harder.
Limiting the supply of a controlled substance does not remove demand. Users simply look elsewhere, including more unsavory sources.
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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.
The restrictions are clearly intended to crush breweries in order to protect restaurants.
Don’t expect a change in course, despite the long-awaited admission.
Former Backpage executives could now face trial again in 2023, after the government's first attempt resulted in a mistrial.
On the ballot in November, Coloradans can choose to have more alcohol in grocery stores and available for delivery.
Messy, dueling ballot initiatives await voters in November.
The case is now on appeal after a lower court said the ban on websites promoting prostitution didn't concern protected speech.
Liz Truss seeks to possibly end ill-advised bans on advertising and special deals on foods experts deem “unhealthy.”
It would be far easier to prosecute sex trafficking if voluntary sex work were legal.
Proposed internet bans open a can of worms about how to punish those involved in creating and consuming controversial content.
Podcaster Molly Lambert's gambit to get listeners to critically examine the conflation of sex work is mostly successful.
Where have we heard before about government councils dictating terms to nominally private enterprise?
New York state enacts one of the most bizarre laws of the drug war.
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The state is prioritizing harm-reduction approaches for drug users. That's great. So why are lawmakers taking a maximalist approach to punishing smokers?
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.
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After 18 months of dealing with the FDA, some distillers are regretting making hand sanitizers at all.
Formerly ubiquitous tobacco vending machine sales are now banned under a 2010 FDA measure.
So much for “fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me.”
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