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CDC Report: U.S. Adult Smoking Rate at Lowest Level Since 1965 - California Healthline Highlights: "Some days"? Really? Good job gathering precise data, CDC. Wow, you smoke fewer cigarettes when you smoke less often? Crazy. [/LIST] :facepalm: I, for one, am horrified that my kids have a...

Tobacco industry: Slowing cigarette sales could put Virginia tobacco bond payments at risk - Daily Press It's nice to see this subject (which is the true dark underbelly of state government anti-vaping efforts) finally starting to bubble up in the media. I maintain that it's going to be a...

BBC News - E-cigarette 'lure' fears might be unfounded But...but...renormalization! Gateway! Won't someone think of the children??

We've all seen this infamous video clip before, where the seven tobacco company executives each state in succession that they don't believe nicotine is addictive: For over 20 years it's been held up as an incontrovertible example of evil Big Tobacco's willingness to lie without compunction to...

helenair dot com/news/local/e-cigarettes-more-harm-than-good/article_32d68832-9dba-562b-8705-5ff1492c58cd.html E-cigarettes: More harm than good?By Melanie Reynolds, Lewis and Clark County "Health Officer" Well I guess these things really are deadly! I, for one, always base my judgements on...

Study: E-Cigarettes Reduce Tobacco Cravings Probably the most objective, least ANTZy piece on vaping that's ever appeared in Time. In fact, up until the last paragraph (where they use the "but they're still hooked on nicotine" canard), there's not really anything inaccurate or otherwise...

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/reynolds-launching-heat-not-burn-cigarette-160403384--finance.html What's the story on these as far as the "substantial equivalence" test? Do RJR/Altria get a free pass because these things bear a passing similarity to some product that was on the market for five...

blogs dot psychcentral dot com/sober-life/2014/11/four-steps-to-kick-the-e-cig-habit/ TRANTZLATION: I am an anti-smoking zealot. Therefore, everything I say is true because I said it. I do not need evidence, because anyone who would question me is a paid operative for Big Tobacco...

www dot modernhealthcare dot com/article/20141114/NEWS/311149934/e-cigarettes-continue-to-draw-in-young-smokers Let's play the "Fun With Word Substitution" game, shall we?

E-cigs help quit smoking, Italian researchers say - West The sample size is small (34 individuals described as "resistant smokers"), and the study duration only four months, but at the end only 26% of subjects had failed to achieve total or partial cessation. And, given the rather short time...

news dot yahoo dot com/studies-vaping-brain-may-offer-clues-smoking-addiction-001827022.html Because what better way to determine the properties of a substance than by studying the properties of a completely different substance? This reeks of scientific awesomeness. TRANSLATION: We will study...

The CDC makes each of the following claims on its various tobacco/smoking "fact" sheets: 1) Smoking kills 50% of everyone who does it habitually, at any point in their lives. 2) Smoking kills 480,000 Americans each year. 3) In 1965, 52.1% of American adults were smokers. According to the US...

Cigarette use among MN high school students drops, e-cig use up | Northland's NewsCenter: News, Weather, Sports | NBC, CBS, MyNetworkTV, and The CW for Duluth MN / Superior WI | Local News Naturally, the state health commissioner chooses to play the "this decline is due to the fantastic success...

The new tobacco war; They may be safer, but could e-cigs renormalize smoking? For the most part, it's a fairly middle-of-the-road write-up explaining the basics of vapor products and outlining the various controversies surrounding them. But things really go off the rails when Ms. Palmer (who...

Remember kids, if you're near someone who's vaping at the beach, you're totally going to get cancer. Council committee advances e-cig beach ban | West Hawaii Today

Yes, the Daily Mail is still trying to out-Daily Mail itself with comically absurd sensationalist headlines about e-cigs. This might be the best one since "Man's Legs Nearly Blown Off By Exploding E-Cig." If someone were to get all their information from the DM, they might reasonably assume...

Today it's Erie County, NY. Usefulness of e-cigarettes questioned by Erie County official, CDC - Refresh Buffalo Blog First off, the words "smoke," "smokers" and "smoking" are used in reference to vapor products (and their users) an astounding TWELVE TIMES. Other assorted lie-lights: This...

Courtesy of Terry Allan, Cuyahoga County health commissioner: cleveland. com/metro/index.ssf/2014/11/e-cigarettes_promote_nicotine.html "E-cigarettes promote nicotine to a new generation: Terry Allan, Cuyahoga County health commissioner | cleveland.com" Selected highlights (or "lie-lights,"...

San Marcos Adopts E-Cigarette Ban | NBC 7 San Diego And no, I didn't waste an evening of my life going down to city hall to speak in opposition to a measure that was being unanimously rubber-stamped by a group of vacuous simpletons who wouldn't have listened to a damn thing I said anyway. I...

City Council [Note: I realize there are already a couple threads on this topic, but I thought this piece was important enough to warrant more prominent placement than tacked onto the end of a prior discussion. But, if it needs to be moved elsewhere, I understand.]