This week’s must see video comes from the television show ‘The Doctors,’ which brought on longtime tobacco harm reduction advocate and researcher Dr. Michael Siegel for a lopsided segment with Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids’ Matthew Myers and Parents Against Vaping E-Cigarettes’ Meredith Berkman. Dr. Siegel, a professor in the Department of Public Health and Community […]
Arrogant CDC Refuses to Accept Responsibility for EVALI Debacle
Philanthropy journalist Marc Gunther has released a new article on Medium entitled “The CDC’s EVALI screwup.” In it, Gunther reveals that the CDC has refused requests from respected public health researchers to correct past misleading claims that suggested nicotine vaping may be responsible for EVALI. “The CDC made a gross error,” says Michael Pesko, a […]
Fifteen Nicotine Experts Urge Balance in Vaping Debate
Considerable evidence suggests that e-cigarettes are an effective smoking-cessation tool for adults in the United States, where hundreds of thousands of people die of smoking-related illness each year. Kenneth Warner, dean emeritus and the Avedis Donabedian Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health, says, however, that the potential of […]
Another Day, Another Embarrassment: WHO Cites Retracted Anti-Vaping Study
In its quest to mislead health practitioners and policymakers on the relative risk of vaping compared to smoking, the World Health Organization (WHO) is citing a discredited paper that was retracted by its publishing journal. Earlier this year, a controversial study co-authored by now-retired UCSF Professor Stanton Glantz linking vaping to heart attacks was retracted […]
