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BOISE ? A St. Maries legislator raised fears about a ?nanny state? when the Idaho House considered legislation this week to ban the sale of nicotine-containing e-cigarettes to children, but the measure ended up passing unanimously. State Rep.
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E-cigarette company Vapor4Life introduces Vapor Titan batteries and kits. This new line of batteries features a ?soft touch? texture, produces more vapor than any other e-cigarette on the market, and includes a custom-made battery cell exclusive to ...
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In oral arguments before Judge Richard Leon of the D.C. District court, the Department of Justice apparently used an analogy to defend the FDA's proposed graphic warning labels. According to this article: "Mark Stern, a Justice Department lawyer, compared the FDA mandates to warnings on packages of charcoal telling people to not use it indoors, noting that 28 people a year die from carbon monoxide poisoning for using charcoal inside their homes. With cigarettes, there are 440,000 deaths, Stern said. 'That's a pretty big interest,' he added. 'It's no secret that the government wants people to
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Bob Nonini of Coeur d'Alene, says flavor combinations like root beer make it seem like e-cigarette makers are targeting youth. But health officials fear they could tempt more children to become smokers. Idaho law bans tobacco sales to minors, ...
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E cigarette review website WhereTheresSmoke.net head Madhukar Yadav cleared the air about rumors of the offer and revealed that ?The offer is actually real! Confirmatory e-mails have been sent by Green Smoke E cigarette manufacturers to all the leading ...
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Sinking as low as any public health charity foundation in recent history, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation - which purports to have a mission of fighting breast cancer - is "cutting off grants to Planned Parenthood affiliates across the country to provide breast cancer screenings, including breast exams and mammogram referrals," according to an article in the Boston Globe.
The funding that is being cut amounts to a total of $680,000, which provided approximately 170,000 breast exams and resulted in more than 6,400 mammography referrals. The reason for the withdrawal  (02/01/2012)
The charging case comes with LED display technology that shows battery life and remaining charge time for a particular e-cigarette battery. It also has two convenient flash lights, one interior and one exterior for using the product in low lighting.
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A new study published online ahead of print last week in the Archives of Internal Medicine reports that ultrasound (US) screening of smokers for carotid artery disease and providing them with pictures of their blocked arteries fails to promote smoking cessation.
The study results were as follows: "At baseline, participants (mean age, 51.1 years; 45.0% women) smoked an average of 20 cigarettes per day with a median duration of 32 years. The US [intervention] group had a high prevalence of carotid plaques (57.9%). At 12 months, smoking cessation rates were high, but  (01/31/2012)
Last week, Hawaii's state legislature introduced two bills that would ban the sale of e-cigarettes to minors and tax the devices at 70% of their wholesale price, the same rate as tobacco products. Like similar state proposals designed to regulate the ...
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In an "opposing view" published today in USA Today, Dr. Paul Terpeluk - Cleveland Clinic's medical director of Employee Health Services - defends the Cleveland Clinic's policy of not hiring smokers.
His main argument: "As a health care institution, whose inherent mission is healing the sick and cultivating a healthier community, does it make sense to support a habit that leads to disease, disability and death? ... At Cleveland Clinic, we have a unique perspective on the burden of chronic disease. We not only treat disease, but we also (01/30/2012)
The Cleveland Clinic will not hire a smoker - or even someone attempting to quit by using nicotine replacement therapy - because of the supposed principle that it sends a bad message. However, this employer has no problem hiring a suspected white collar criminal who is costing the taxpayers in his former state tens of thousands of dollars to defend him from criminal charges.
According to an article in the Kansas City Star, the Cleveland Clinic has hired Tom Thornton, the ex-CEO of the Kansas Bioscience Authority, who left his former position in disgrace after being  (01/30/2012)
?Consumers should be able to rely on a product that is safe from a health viewpoint and that is by no means certain in the case of the e-cigarette,? Martina Poetschke-Langer of the DKFZ German cancer research centre says. She cautions that lessons ...
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A vapour-based cigarette used by people who want the feel of smoking without the nicotine, requires a power charger that doesn't conform to government safety standards, according to the province's chief electrical inspector. It requires eight hours of ...
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Yesterday, Dr. Paul Terpuluk - medical director of the Cleveland Clinic - and I participated in a discussion of nicotine-free hiring policies on Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane. You can listen to the show here.
For me, two interesting things came out of the discussion. First, I hadn't realized that the Cleveland Clinic policy denies employment even to ex-smokers who have quit successfully using nicotine replacement therapy. Any nicotine use is grounds for denial of employment, even using NRT or electronic cigarettes. Thus, the policy actually punishes exactly the (01/25/2012)
Prock was using her E-cigarette at Intrust Arena recently at a concert when security asked her to stop using it. "Smoking ban they said," explains Prock. "They told me to put it out, but it's not a cigarette." Intrust Arena says it is banning the ...
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The answer is no. It would be quite unusual for such a scientist to voluntarily write a commentary in which he argues, for example, that a major class of drugs manufactured by many of his clients is ineffective. Doing so would almost certainly risk losing his job. And the company's clients.
Therefore, it is not difficult to see that if such a scientist were to write a commentary about the effectiveness of the drugs in question, the fact that he is high up in a company with pharmaceutical clients - clients who manufacture the drugs in question - would  (01/24/2012)
The lack of evidence has prompted the American Cancer Society, and other advocacy organizations, to refrain from taking a stance on e-cigarette use. However, the US Food and Drug Administration has found that e-cigarettes do contain harmful levels of ...
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Two weeks ago, I reported the results of a new study by Alpert et al. which showed that nicotine replacement medications (NRT) are not effective in helping smokers to quit long-term. Based on this finding, the article argued that public expenditures for NRT provision to smokers is a waste of resources.
Calling this a landmark study, I wrote: "This study provides important empirical evidence that over the long-term, population-based use of NRT in real-life situations - outside of the clinical trial setting where there is extensive counseling and other support provided - is (01/23/2012)
Last week, the FDA's Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC) spent three days deliberating on dissolvable tobacco products - a form of smokeless tobacco that includes products such as Camel Orbs, Strips, and Sticks, Ariva, and Stonewall.
Other products which have received serious scrutiny by the FDA include electronic cigarettes (which were essentially banned by the FDA until that action was overturned by the courts). One product has been banned: flavored cigarettes, such as the strawberry, chocolate, pineapple, grape, banana, coconut, and melon varieties. And one product has so far received no scrutiny by (01/19/2012)
A groundbreaking study published in the upcoming 2012 issue of the Annual Review of Public Health challenges the wisdom of the nation's entire approach to smoking cessation.
The study examines quit rates over the past five decades and finds that despite the widespread proliferation of smoking cessation quitlines and the increasing use of smoking cessation drugs like NRT and Chantix during the past decade, the rate of successful quitting among smokers has not improved. (see: Pierce JP, Cummins SE, White MM, Humphrey A, Messer K. Quitlines and nicotine replacement for smoking cessation: Do we need (01/18/2012)
An interesting pairing of letters to the editor of the National Post on the topic of electronic cigarettes illustrates the stark contrast between the ivory tower thinking of anti-smoking ideologues and the real-life experience of actual smokers whose lives are at stake.
In the first letter, Stan Shatenstein (contributing editor of the journal Tobacco Control) argues that electronic cigarettes should not be allowed on the market at the present time because of uncertainty about their absolute health risks, even though the fact that these products reduce the carcinogenic risk from cigarette smoking is "obvious." (01/17/2012)
According to an article in the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, several colleges and universities in Florida have banned, or are gearing up to ban, all smoking on campus grounds, even in private vehicles.
According to the article: "If you smoke, you may be breathing less easily on college campuses these days. Looking for the designated smoking area at Florida International University? There is none. Want to light a cigarette inside your car at the University of Florida? Don't let the cops see you. Hoping to smoke during your break at Nova (01/13/2012)
The United States has appealed a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling that the Tobacco Act's ban on flavored cigarettes is discriminatory and violates international trade agreements because it exempts menthol, thereby treating like products differently in a way that favors domestic cigarettes.
According to an article at Law360, the U.S. appeals brief argued that the WTO erred in deeming that menthol and clove cigarettes are "like products." The brief also argued that the WTO erred in concluding that the Tobacco Act treats imported cigarettes less favorably than domestic cigarettes. The crux of the argument (01/12/2012)
In an effort that will discourage many smokers who are trying to quit smoking using electronic cigarettes, the University of California San Francisco has adopted a new policy that prohibits the use of electronic cigarettes anywhere on university property, including outdoors.
University policy already prohibited smoking on the campus; now, electronic cigarettes have been added. The Rest of the Story Not only does this action discourage smokers from quitting, but it punishes people who are making a valiant effort to quit smoking using electronic cigarettes. Why punish these individuals? Instead, |