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A second woman filed a lawsuit Monday against UC San Francisco professor and prominent tobacco control activist Dr. Stanton Glantz. UCSF professor faces second sexual harassment lawsuit

I saw this while looking studies released from my Alma mater. It looks positive and thought that I would leave this for the experts here to evaluate. Electronic cigarette vapor alters the lateral structure but not tensiometric properties of calf lung surfactant

Former UCSF researcher sues professor for alleged sex harassment Looks like Glantz has some personal issues to deal with. Not only sexual harassment but also publishing her work as his own. A High-Profile Anti-Tobacco Crusader Is Being Sued For Sexual Harassment

Maybe the influence of Dr. Gottlieb is starting to take root at the FDA. Today they extended the timeline for applications for new e-cigarette clearance by the FDA to Aug. 8, 2022. The are also making moves to reduce the amount of nicotine in analog cigarettes hoping to move people from...

FDA gives e-cigarette makers a reprieve

Long-term e-cigarette use and smoking cessation: a longitudinal study with US population | Tobacco Control Finally, a research team got it right...

While I do not completely agree with it the good Dr. has a point that perception is reality. Irresponsible marketing by parts of the e-cigarette industry requires immediate measures

Hopefully when they review the vapeing deeming they see that it matches the criteria for repeal. In sweeping move, Trump puts regulation monitors in U.S. agencies

The Hartland Institute put out a public policy guidance document for vaping. It seems to roundout and address many of the fallacies being used to drive policy currently. https://www.heartland.org/_template-assets/documents/publications/Vaping%20E-Cigarettes%20and%20Public%20Policy.pdf

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-01-nicotine-brain-deficits-key-schizophrenia.html "Our study provides compelling biological evidence that a specific genetic variant contributes to risk for schizophrenia, defines the mechanism responsible for the effect and validates that nicotine improves...

Evidence for harm reduction in COPD smokers who switch to electronic cigarettes. - PubMed - NCBI

Study that shows what we all know about using vape devices and vape shops. RESULTS Participants reported health and the need to quit/reduce smoking as the most important reasons for initiating e-cigarette use. Approximately 62% were biochemically-verified smoking abstinent and 100% were using...

Just how is this going to work. Obama abused his power once again and lifted the embargo of cigars from Cuba. One would assume that you would have to go to Cuba to buy them since Cuban cigars were not for sale in the US before the FDA deemed them under their control. So even though out of one...

This is from the Huffington post in the form of a blog by Dr. Amy Fairchild. She discusses the two sides of the scientific debate revolving around vaping. One of my favorite lines of the blog which is the repeated theme in the blog is "Given the anti-e-cigarette messaging of some influential...

Dr. K Farsalinos response to the Royal College of Physicians report. He wrote about the topic of Nicotine addition, popular view points and scientific fact. Re: Nicotine without smoke—putting electronic cigarettes in context | The BMJ

At least this time there is more information. 18650 in her pocket Battery was LG branded E-cigarette violently explodes in pocket of Queens woman

As much as I do not care for Dr. Siegel he has Washington Health Department's number. This time I hope the retraction is more public than the one last year. Washington’s Health Department Slammed For Telling ‘Lies’ About E-Cigarettes

CASSA issues a smack down to "Public Health Research" The whole process of peer review in public health research has been called into question by a new paper focusing on studies in the field of tobacco harm reduction (THR). Carl V. Phillips and Igor Burstyn of the Consumer Advocates for...

Headlines about e-cigarettes don’t mean they’re ‘not safer than tobacco’ Very good at debunking some of the latest headlines. Just because they’re not “safe” doesn’t mean they aren’t “safer” - they take down the San Diego study. Next they go after Glantz's meta study. Finally they go after...

Great video from a Tobacco Control person in Canada. Dragon Slayers – Powering the public health war on vaping – RegWatch