Survey of Juul Customers Shows Many Vapers Stop Smoking
In this sample of nearly 19,000, moving from smoking to vaping was much more common than the reverse.
Tobacco
Bans on E-Cigarette Flavors Can't Be Justified by the 'Wildfire Spread' of Adolescent Vaping, Which Seems to Be Declining
Bans like San Francisco's hurt smokers by making the potentially lifesaving switch to vaping less attractive.
Australia Attempts to Fight Tobacco Black Markets by Banning Large Cash Transactions
This will hurt innocent people. It may harm legal businesses. And it won't actually work.
FDA Investigation of Adolescent Juuling Could Endanger Adult Smokers
What if the e-cigarette features that appeal to teenagers also appeal to grownups?
Are Health Advocates Finally Wising Up About the Nature of Risk?
Everything we do entails risk. The question is our tolerance for it.
Nonsensical FDA Ban On Vaping Products Faces 3 New Legal Challenges
FDA took unconstitutional action when it made electronic cigarettes subject to the Tobacco Control Act (even though they contain no tobacco), lawsuits argue.
E-Cigarettes Can Be Lifesavers
An FDA-sponsored report confirms the harm-reducing potential of vaping yet worries, implausibly, that it will boost adolescent smoking.
Stossel: NY Strangles Small Business
Keeping up with New York regulations is enough to shut down some businesses.
Adolescent Smoking Rates Reach Historic Lows, Despite Vaping's Popularity
Past-month cigarette use by high school seniors has fallen by 73 percent since 1997.
Fixating on Adolescent Vaping Could Be Deadly for Adult Smokers
A new critique of the surgeon general's report on e-cigarettes puts underage use in perspective.
FDA Lies About Vaping While the CDC Inches Toward the Truth
Federal officials deny big reductions in adolescent tobacco use and obscure the harm-reducing potential of e-cigarettes.
A Cap on Nicotine in Cigarettes Would Be Hazardous to Health
If "light" cigarettes were a scam, how can "nonaddictive" cigarettes be a boon?
The FDA Warms to Vaping
Embracing harm reduction, the agency's new head tries to make e-cigarette regulations less onerous.
Embracing Harm Reduction, FDA Gives E-Cigarette Industry a Regulatory Reprieve
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb extends a crucial application deadline by four years and promises "a greater awareness" of vaping's health advantages.
New Study Provides Strong Evidence That E-Cigarettes Boost Smoking Cessation
Quit rates rose with e-cigarette sales, and vapers are more likely to stop smoking.
Don't Buy the Hype About an Increased Smoking Age
Politicians are using speculative public health studies to restrict individual liberty.
FDA's Vaping Regulations Will Hurt Smokers Trying to Quit
Because lawmakers didn't understand that the future might bring new, better products, we'll soon be stuck with only the old, dirty options.
As Vaping Exploded Among Teenagers, Smoking Fell by Half
Defying its own data, the CDC continues to obscure the enormous harm-reducing potential of e-cigarettes.
Trump's Charge for FDA Regulatory Reform Could Be Good News for Snus
The Swedish-made cigarette alternative knows all about the FDA's "slow and burdensome" permitting process. Some changes could make Americans healthier.
Study Confirms Health Advantages of Vaping
Why do U.S. officials insist on obscuring them?
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.
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.
