Guy Bentley A Swiss study claiming vaping can lead to smoking and harms current smokers’ chance of quitting suffers from “fatal” flaws, and the paper’s conclusions are misrepresentative, according to a leading public health expert. “We found no beneficial effects of vaping at follow-up for either smoking cessation or smoking reduction,” the authors conclude in the…
Geoffrey Ingersoll New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer has launched a withering assault on the e-cigarette industry, claiming the sector is targeting children and teenagers with advertising. That assault calls on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to step in and investigate the practices of e-cigarette advertising. “The same companies that peddled ‘Joe Camel’ and similar, kid-friendly images…
Guy Bentley The American Heart Association (AHA) is worried that young Americans are shunning tobacco cigarettes in favor of e-cigarettes. In a press release following the publication of the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s 2015 Monitoring the Future Survey, the American Heart Association said: While the downward trend in teen cigarette smoking is a wonderful…
Guy Bentley The year 2015 played host to the most intense campaign of misinformation and lobbying against e-cigarettes yet, perhaps due to exploding popularity over the last year. Public health activists, prohibitionists, and journalists have jumped on the bandwagon of the war against vapers, reporting headline-grabbing excerpts of dubious studies and advocating regulatory clampdowns and…
Guy Bentley A study making headlines across the world claiming two e-cigarette products “damaged cells in ways that could lead to cancer,” is under fire from a leading public health expert. Conducted by a research team at the University of California, San Diego, the study investigated how e-cigarettes may contribute to the development and progression of…
Guy Bentley E-cigarettes could be the most important factor in hundreds of thousands of people quitting smoking, according to a study published in the International Journal of Public Health. France’s 2014 Health Barometer, using responses from 15,635 people, aimed to investigate the relationship between tobacco and e-cigarette use. The research found that just over a…
Guy Bentley A policy rider that could’ve saved 99 percent of the e-cigarette of from de facto prohibition failed to make it into the House’s omnibus spending bill released Tuesday night. The rider would’ve changed the Food and Drug Administration‘s (FDA) rules requiring all e-cigarette products released after February 15, 2007, to undergo the costly Pre-Market Tobacco Applications…
Guy Bentley Reports of high levels of a potentially deadly chemical in e-cigarettes have been greatly exaggerated and are part of a trend toward the demonization of vaping, according to a leading tobacco control expert. Diacetyl, a chemical linked to the severe respiratory disease bronchiolitis obliterans, commonly known as “popcorn lung,” was found in 39 of 51…
Guy Bentley A new Gallup poll shows cigarette smoking among young adults has plummeted to a new low just one month after data from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed e-cigarette use surging. The Gallup poll reported a decline in smoking among adults aged 18-29 by a 12 percentage points to 22 percent…
Guy Bentley Ex-smokers are four times more likely to use e-cigarettes than current smokers, while those who’ve never taken a puff of tobacco are unlikely to ever start vaping. A new paper by Rutgers School of Public Health and the Schroeder Institute slays a number of popular myths surrounding e-cigarettes. The paper uses some of the latest…