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The good news is that this study will be one of the very few that actually compares the effects of vaping to smoking. However, when it comes to comparing it to never-smoking, it would be disingenuous not to compare vaping to other risks that society deems "acceptable." For example, how much... -
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“We seem to have reached peak dishonesty in parts of the health community. Instead of celebrating and sharing the good news that we have nicotine products that substitute for smoking and are likely to be at least 95 percent less risky, we have doctors declaring that it would be better to lie to... -
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After Finland ceased classifying higher nicotine pouches as "medicines," smuggling of (very low risk) snus has dramatically decreased. Australia, which created a huge illicit market by requiring a prescription for vapor products, could learn from this. https://yle.fi/a/74-20053109 -
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"The TRUTH is [vaping is] a promising harm reduction option for people who would smoke anyway.... Restrictions on e-cigarettes might undo years of public health progress." ~ Peter Clark... -
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After reviewing the data, this new study finds that any public health benefits of reducing youth #vaping via flavor restrictions and/or bans may be "offset by public health costs from increased cigarette sales." Put simply, flavor bans increase smoking... -
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In a country that is the second largest producer of tobacco in the world and where approximately 100 MILLION people ages 15 and older SMOKE, it's ILLEGAL to even POSSESS a product that is at least 95% safer than smoking. It's unconscionable... -
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Another study finds vaping isn't leading to smoking. How many more will it take for this myth to finally be considered DEBUNKED? "The emergence of e-cigarettes has coincided with THE MOST RAPID DECLINES IN CIGARETTE USE over the past thirty years." https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/19/6866 -
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CASAA BLOG FDA's Special Math for vaping products. CASAA in the news and at GTNF. New study finds there's still no "gateway" to smoking. An asthma study with a timing problem. Former "Drug Czar" unsurprisingly misleads the public. Engineering a snus panic and more... -
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CASAA LIVE This week's guest is Corey Pegues, a retired NY Deputy Inspector, who joins Alex and Logan to discuss the FDA's looming ban on menthol, illicit markets for tobacco/nicotine products, and if harm reduction can help solve issues between law enforcement and the communities they serve... -
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"The results of this study alleviate the concern that access to e-cigarettes and other low-risk nicotine products promote smoking. There is no sign of that, and there are some signs that they in fact compete against cigarettes..." ~ Professor Peter Hajek, Director of Health and Lifestyle... -
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Note how they don't mention what the "negative impacts" of snus use are -- because there really aren't any other than possible dependency. Mr. Murphy should be happy that, rather than smoke as he did, the current generation is choosing to NOT SMOKE... -
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The FDA seems proud that it has managed to "authorize 23 e-cigarettes" (out of MILLIONS of products.) In reality, the agency authorized just SEVEN e-cig devices and 12 refills since 2020 (and NONE have been authorized since July 2022.) ALL of the products are only authorized to be sold with... -
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Unsurprisingly, a former "Drug Czar" misleads the public about a drug. He falsely suggests that a "number of kids are dying" from disposable nicotine vapes and his warning that they "may contain the dangerous opioid fentanyl" is pure scaremongering. But we do agree with him that the "new... -
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Study participants smoked but had never vaped before. Both smoking & vaping delayed blood vessels from dilating back to normal (as does caffeine.) It's long been understood that people with PREEXISTING heart conditions should avoid nicotine/caffeine. Researchers did not appear to take into... -
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The survey asked respondents whether they had ever used an e-cigarette, how many days during the previous 30-day period they had used one, and whether they had EVER been told they had asthma by a health care professional. This means that it's entirely possible that a significant number of the... -
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CASAA CEO Alex Clark (@Hello_Alex) took part in a panel discussion during the thirteenth annual conference of The Global Tobacco and Nicotine Forum (GTNF) held last night. Below are the tweets from @thegtnf highlighting Alex's comments as he spoke: @Hello_Alex of @CASAAmedia talks about the... -
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Check out this op-ed in The Buffalo News by CASAA CEO Alex Clark! "It’s time for experts to update their priorities – and ensure that efforts to prevent kids from habitually using nicotine don’t undermine the fight to get adults off traditional cigarettes."... -
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She was so addicted to nicotine that she could only quit by...reading a book (essentially promotes "cold turkey") and throwing away her vape. Did it ever occur to her that maybe it was so easy BECAUSE she'd switched to vaping before trying to quit... -
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A long read that's worth the time! "What should have been a relatively simple scientific question became transmuted into a moral campaign." "There is the well-known tendency among those who favor a particular hypothesis to “cherry-pick” the data."...