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Do Anti-Vaping Ads and Media Actually Encourage Youth Vaping?

In the wake of last year’s EVALI lung injury outbreak and a raft of legislative and media reactions to perceived…

February 26, 2020

Journal Retracts Study That Falsely Associated E-Cigarettes With Heart Attacks

A peer-reviewed scientific journal has retracted a study, published last year, which claimed that e-cigarette users were significantly more likely…

February 20, 2020

My Friend Died Because of Philly’s Addiction-Treatment Smoking Ban

I met Bobby in 2011, when we were both residents in a local recovery house. Bobby was 19 years old…

February 18, 2020

Dismantling NY Mag’s Disgraceful Hit-Job on Vaping

New York Magazine ran an article this month—in its “Intelligencer” vertical, of all places—with the provocative title: “Who Thought Sucking…

February 13, 2020

As Trump’s Vape Flavors Ban Kicks In, What Does It Mean on the Ground?

It’s 11:59 pm on a Wednesday night in America. Just the wrong time for your watermelon-flavored vape pod to run…

February 6, 2020

Most Youth Don’t Vape—And Those That Do Vape Infrequently

News media and policy makers have zeroed in on rising teen e-cigarette use, but they have tended to ignore its…

February 3, 2020

The New Federal Minimum Vaping Age Won’t Protect Young People

President Donald Trump signed legislation in December 2019 to amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act by raising the…

January 29, 2020

International Experts Slam World Health Organization’s Deceptive Vaping Release

The World Health Organization (WHO) published an astonishingly bad Q&A on electronic cigarettes on January 20, full of lies of…

January 27, 2020

The Mental Gymnastics of Anti-Vaping Legislators

With a new round of legislative hearing looming ahead there is no doubt that vaping—and various prohibition strategies—will be at…

January 14, 2020

U-Haul’s Hateful Policy of Barring Nicotine Users From Employment

U-Haul? More like U-Hate. The ubiquitous moving-and-storage company has made clear that it hates workers who use nicotine—even on their…

January 13, 2020