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Glantz letter to WHO – the importance of dispassionate presentation and interpretation of evidence
June 29, 2014
As a respected authority, it is important that WHO as an organisation and its individual staff take a dispassionate view of scientific evidence presented from any source.On 26 June, the authors of...
A Non-Smoker’s Perspective on Electronic Cigarettes
June 15, 2014
Naturally I was fated to marry a smoker. I won’t say that I was immediately thrilled when he discovered electronic cigarettes. I didn’t know whether e-cigarettes would work for him; and I didn’t k...
Why do we love tobacco plain packaging and hate e cigs?
May 13, 2014
It is striking that many of those in public health who are now cautioning against e-cigarettes are the same experts who had previously supported harm reduction in relation to illegal drug use. Ove...
Formaldehyde release in e-cigarette vapor - the New York Times story explained in detail
May 8, 2014
Electronic cigarettes appear to be safer than ordinary cigarettes for one simple — and simply obvious — reason: people don’t light up and smoke them. With the e-cigarettes, there is no burning tob...
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) publishes proposed deeming regulations for e-cigarettes
April 28, 2014
For further details from FDA see the links here: FDA Press release: As part of its implementation of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act signed by the President in 2009, the U.S....
Remarkable rise in e-cigarette use in Britain
April 28, 2014
Nearly two thirds of electronic cigarette users are smokers, and a third are ex-smokers. This suggests that around 700,000 Britons are smoke-free and using electronic cigarettes. Gerry Stimson, Em...
What drives anti e-cig sentiments? Potential Insights in to the Reasoning of Skeptics
April 22, 2014
This blog entry originated as an e-mail response to questions from Dr. Gil Ross of the American Council on Science and Health regarding my personal views on the rationale and reasoning behind many...