FDA Says Explaining the Main Advantages of E-Cigarettes Would Confuse Consumers
According to federal regulators, companies that talk about reducing health risks by switching from smoking to vaping are breaking the law.
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Vaping Is Not a Gateway to Smoking, New Study Shows
Crack downs on vaping often use the idea of it being a gateway as justification.
National Park Service Will Permanently Ban Vaping Wherever it Bans Smoking
Updating rules to include "the use of electronic cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems" in national parks.
Adolescent Smoking Falls Again, Confounding E-Cigarette Alarmists
The latest survey results deal another blow to the hypothesis that vaping leads to smoking.
The FDA's Unauthorized War on Pipes and Cigars
The FDA is extending the meaning of the Tobacco Control Act to cover cigars, pipe tobacco, and even pipes.
Are E-Cigs the Market Solution that Can Save a Billion Lives?
Q&A with "A Billion Lives" director Aaron Biebert.
Surgeon General Launches E-Cigarette Scare Campaign That Will Harm Public Health
Vivek Murthy's concern about adolescent vaping is overwrought, and his propaganda is pernicious.
The World Health Organization's Tough Tactics Against Tobacco and E-Cigs
The United Nations' public health agency achieves consensus through mass detentions and media censorship.
Vaping Is a Gateway to Quitting
A new study that links e-cigarettes to smoking has things backward.
The New York Times Highlights U.S. Officials' Irrational Hostility Toward E-Cigarettes
By portraying vaping as a public health menace, the government promotes misconceptions that deter smokers from quitting.
More Evidence That Vaping Is Not a Gateway to Smoking
Very few nonsmoking teenagers vape regularly, and even fewer vape nicotine.
Two New Studies Discredit the CDC's Dire Warnings About E-Cigarettes and Teenagers
Very few nonsmoking teenagers vape regularly, and even fewer vape nicotine.
Most Adolescent Vapers Are Not Nicotine Users
A new study makes the CDC's equation of vaping with tobacco use look even more ridiculous.
Experiment Confirms Lifesaving Potential of E-Cigarettes
Researchers measure big declines in toxin and carcinogen exposure among smokers who switch to vaping.
FDA Says Nicotine-Free E-Liquids Are Tobacco Products in 'Certain Circumstances'
Manufacturers will have to guess which circumstances those are, because the FDA won't say.
FDA E-Cigarette Regulations Give Smoking a Boost
The new rules will discourage smokers from switching to vaping, a much less dangerous alternative.
FDA Assigns Zero Value to Smokers Who Die Because of Its E-Cigarette Regulations
New rules will dramatically reduce competition, variety, and innovation, retarding the replacement of smoking with a much safer alternative.
War on Vaping an Effort To Prop up Tobacco Taxes?
New tax bill in California treats vaping products like tobacco products.
E.U. Survey Finds E-Cigarettes Helped 15 Million Smokers Quit or Cut Back
There was little evidence that vaping leads to smoking.
Teenagers Smoke Less As They Vape More
The CDC's own data belie its warnings that e-cigarettes are a gateway to the real thing.
If Vaping Causes Smoking, Why Are Cigarettes Less Popular Than Ever With Teenagers?
The CDC's data belie its warnings about e-cigarettes.
Clueless Legislators Deter Smokers From Vaping
California undermines public health by arbitrarily classifying e-cigarettes as tobacco products.
California Undermines Public Health by Treating E-Cigarettes Like the Real Thing
Classifying vaping devices as tobacco products will deter smokers from making a switch that could save their lives.
California's Anti-Vaping Law Puts Puritanism Above Health
Part of the ideological war on tobacco
Why Vape? E-Cig Companies Are Not Allowed to Say.
The FDA is suppressing potentially lifesaving information about the health advantages of e-cigarettes.
The FDA's Deadly Censorship of Lifesaving E-Cigarette Information
Regulators won't let manufacturers of vaping hardware and e-liquids tell their customers the truth.
The FDA's Deadly E-Cigarette Regulations
The agency's new rules threaten products that offer a much safer alternative to smoking.
The FDA's New Tobacco Rules Will Be Terrible for Cigar Smokers Too
The market for cigars is about to become a lot less diverse and a lot more boring.
FDA Imposes a Slow-Motion Ban on E-Cigarettes
The agency's final rule leaves conventional cigarettes on the market while requiring much safer alternatives to meet prohibitive requirements.
Government Officials Are Determined to Turn Vapers Into Scofflaws
E-cigarettes aren't just a safer alternative to the real thing, they're an innovation people plan to use whether or not scolds approve.
Royal College of Physicians Says Vaping Saves Lives
The venerable British medical society recognizes the harm-reducing potential of e-cigarettes.
Royal College of Physicians: Vaping Can 'Prevent Almost All The Harm From Smoking'
The British medical group endorses e-cigarettes as a harm-reducing alternative to the conventional kind.
Bernie Sanders Wants to Legalize Marijuana…and Maybe Ban Cigarettes?
The senator says there's "almost the question" of why cigarettes are "a legal product in this country."
The CDC Keeps Lying About Adolescent Vaping and Tobacco Use
The agency bizarrely counts tobacco-free, noncombustible e-cigarettes as a kind of tobacco.
Lying About Snus and E-Cigarettes Is Like Blocking Access to Clean Heroin Needles
Two public health researchers condemn the "information quarantine" surrounding safer nicotine products.
Smokeless Tobacco Bans Lubricate the Slippery Slope With Gross Brown Spit
Starting today, professional ballplayers at Dodger Stadium will be legally prohibited from chewing tobacco, because of hypocritical local pols who recognize no restraint on their power
Equating Vaping With Smoking Is Medical Malpractice
Celebrity doctor Margaret Cuomo falsely claims e-cigarettes are "at least as harmful" as the real thing.
Knocking Smokeless Tobacco Out of the Ballpark
Liberty suffers another blow in Chicago 'for the children.'
Celebrity Doctor Insists on Misleading Smokers About Vaping Hazards
Margaret Cuomo claims e-cigarettes are "at least as harmful" as the real thing.
New York City Bans Smokeless Tobacco At the Ballpark
The Big Apple becomes the latest city to embrace "over-legislating the human race" at sporting events.
Cubs Manager Joe Maddon, on Chicago's New Tobacco Ban: 'I'm not into over-legislating the human race'
Grown man in uniform makes considerably more sense than Chicago politicians
Feds Say You Are Now Free to Smoke Cubans Outside the U.S.
The old rule notionally exposed Americans to criminal penalties for buying and consuming Cuban cigars while abroad.
Teenagers Are Smoking and Drinking Less Than Ever Before
Cannabis consumption is up since the early 1990s but still substantially lower than in the '70s.
New CDC Data Suggest E-Cigarettes Are Helping Smokers Quit
The same survey finds that never-smokers rarely become regular vapers.
Why Not Let E-Cigarette Companies Tell the Truth?
The problem is too much FDA regulation, not too little.
