One of the worst ever tobacco control papers is ‘corrected’
Researchers were told their allegations were false, but they still went ahead and attacked a leading vaping company with baseless claims
Chaos, waste and failure: what is wrong with FDA tobacco regulation, and how could it improve?
This is my response to the operational review of the performance of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products by the Reagan-Udall foundation. The heart of the problem is the lack of a coherent regulatory strategy, grounded in real-world understanding
The FDA forces Juul to pull the most successful anti-smoking product ever
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is to force the popular Juul vaping products off the US market for spurious and unjustifiable reasons
The US vaping flavour ban: twenty things you should know
American vapers and vaping businesses will shortly enter a period of chaos and existentially threatening regulation. First will be a ban on almost all flavours. Going into 2020, the industry will be in crisis and vapers and smokers will be in danger of losing one of the most important innovations of the century. Here are twenty things you should know.
The great American youth vaping epidemic. Really?
When senior officials claim that the is an epidemic of teenage vaping or nicotine addiction, what do they actually mean and does the claim makes sense? Most vaping is infrequent, and regular use is concentrated among smokers, where is may be benficial.
More heat than light – new US statistics on youth vaping provide no basis for FDA policy
New data on youth vaping. Time to take a closer look at the disclosure of some 2018 U.S. National Youth Tobacco Survey data …
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Youth vaping and the dangers of over-reaction – a letter to the FDA
 Letter from Iowa Attorney General Miller and others, including me, to Scott Gottlieb, FDA Commissioner. See PDF at the …
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The US media is losing its mind over vaping and Juul – the questions a credible journalist should ask
Update 30 April 2018 – JUUL: hold the moral panic Introducing a modern moral panic Over the weekend in an …