A new study finding vaping can help smokers quit even if they don’t intend to stop smoking has received a lot of press attention. This includes coverage from the National Institutes of Health’s Research Blog. The below press release was issued by the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, which is where the research was conducted. […]
Ditching Cigarettes for Smokeless Tobacco Can Help Cut Cardiovascular Risks, UCLA Study Finds
The majority of U.S. citizens and even doctors believe nicotine is primarily responsible for the tobacco-related disease and death actually caused by inhaling smoke from cigarettes. A new study from UCLA shows yet again this belief is mistaken and that smoke-free nicotine and tobacco products are far safer than smoking. This press release comes courtesy […]
Vaping Still Declining, the Non-Existent Gateway, and Other Key Findings from the 2021 MTF Survey
Despite years of claims that vaping acts as a gateway to smoking, new results from the 2021 Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey indicate that not only has interest in vaping waned among youth, but regular combustible cigarette usage is growing even rarer. In the aftermath of Juul fever, the EVALI scare, Tobacco 21 passage at […]
PSU Study Gives Quitting Advantage to E-Cigs With Cigarette-Like Nicotine Delivery
News from Penn State University: Electronic cigarettes with cigarette-like nicotine delivery may help some people stop smoking cigarettes, according to a new study by Penn State College of Medicine and Virginia Commonwealth University researchers. By switching to e-cigarettes, the researchers said, tobacco users may reduce their exposure to certain carcinogens, or cancer-causing substances. For six months, the research team […]
AHA Retracts Junk Conference Abstract Linking Vaping to Strokes
Two years, two retracted studies. It is no secret that the American Heart Association is ideologically opposed to vaping. Whether in advocacy or ‘science,’ there is often no line they won’t cross in their quest to confuse and mislead adults about the relative risk of vaping versus cigarette smoking. In 2020, there was the famous […]