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Wednesday, May 21, 2025

New Study Finds that Youth Vaping Served as a Substitute for Smoking But Concludes the Opposite

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A new study published in the journal Tobacco Control purports to show that the immense decline in youth smoking over the past decade had n...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

New Zealand Researcher Claims that Using E-Cigarettes Coats the Lungs With Oil

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An electronic cigarette researcher from Auckland University's Bio Engineering Institute is telling the public that when people use e-cig...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Is the American Cancer Society Really Interested in Preventing Cancer or Just Punishing Smokers Who Don't Use Cessation Products Made by ACS Donors?

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Product A is a flavored product that appeals to youth and has rapidly gained in popularity among youth. Product B is a flavored product that...
Tuesday, April 08, 2025

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Falsely Claims that Vaping is "Tobacco Use"

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In its Take Down Tobacco program, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is lamenting the fact that through its sale of flavored vapes, the tob...
Wednesday, April 02, 2025

My Testimony Before the Rhode Island Senate Finance Committee on S543 - A Bill to Allow the Sale of Electronic Cigarettes at Adult-only Vape Shops

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I had the pleasure yesterday of testifying before the Rhode Island Senate Finance Committee on bill S543, introduced by Senator DiPalma, whi...
Sunday, March 09, 2025

CDC Tells Public that Saving Millions of Lives is Offset by Youth Ripping Some Tobacco-Free, Smokeless Vapes

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The CDC's Office on Smoking and Health (where I worked for two years as an EIS Officer in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Heal...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Researchers of Severely Flawed Study Conclude that Vaping is Just as Harmful as Smoking and Causes Heart Disease and Dementia

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According to an article published yesterday in the Daily Mail , researchers from Manchester Metropolitan University have conducted a study ...
Monday, February 24, 2025

CDC Needs to Stop Calling E-Cigarettes "Tobacco Products"

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) web site on youth e-cigarette use begins: " E-cigarettes are the most common...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Iowa Health Says There's No Real Difference Between Vaping and Smoking

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According to the Iowa Health web site , " Overall, there’s not much difference between smoking and vaping. " The site goes on to e...
Thursday, February 13, 2025

New Study Demonstrates Why Anti-Vape Academics are Wrong in Concluding that E-Cigarette Use Causes Heart Attacks and COPD

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Numerous researchers and health groups have claimed that e-cigarette use increases the risk of heart attacks and COPD ( example 1 ; example ...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

New Study Shows that E-Cigarettes Help Young Adult Smokers to Quit

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A new study published yesterday in the journal Addiction provides evidence that rather than serving as a gateway to smoking, the use of e-...
Tuesday, February 04, 2025

Science by Press Release: Researchers Claim that E-Cigarette Use Increases Heart Failure by 19% But Fail to Provide Data to Back It Up

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In a press release issued last April by the American College of Cardiology, researchers of a new study claimed that people who use e-cigare...
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Michael Siegel
Dr. Siegel is a visiting professor and researcher in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine. The views expressed here are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Tufts University. Dr. Siegel has 32 years of experience in the field of tobacco control. He previously spent two years working at the Office on Smoking and Health at CDC, where he conducted research on secondhand smoke and cigarette advertising. He has published nearly 70 papers related to tobacco. He testified in the landmark Engle lawsuit against the tobacco companies, which resulted in an unprecedented $145 billion verdict against the industry. He teaches health communication theory and social mareketing in the Masters of Public Health program.
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