November 24, 2014
We just submitted this comment to FDA. The tracking number is 1jy-8fp2-y90f.
Swedish Match’s Consumer Perception Study Provides No Evidence for the Population-Level Effects of Modified Snus Labels
Docket ID: FDA-2014-N-1051
Lucy Popova, PhD & Stanton A. Glantz, PhD
Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education
University of California San Francisco
November 24, 2014
According to the Modified Risk Tobacco Product Applications Guidance for the Industry, “FDA shall issue an order under section 911(g)(1) of the FD&C Act (risk modification order) only if it determines the applicant has demonstrated that the product, as it is actually used by consumers, will:
November 24, 2014
We submitted this public comment to FDA in response to Swedish Match's request to change the warning labels on snus. The tracking number is 1jy-8fp2-j9pp.
“Swedish Experience” extolled in this MRTP application is not transferrable to the US because of the dual use with cigarettes and differences in the tobacco advertising environment
Docket ID: FDA-2014-N-1051
Stanton A. Glantz, PhD, Lucy Popova, PhD, & Lauren K. Lempert, JD MPH
Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education
University of California San Francisco
November 25, 2014
November 19, 2014
UC tuition debate: Governor Brown should restore the California dream, not keep strangling higher ed
November 18, 2014
This is the testimony I plan to give at the University of California Regents meeting today on the proposed 25% tuition increases:
My name is Stanton Glantz. I am a UCSF professor, past chair of the Systemwide Committee on Planning and Budget, and vice president of the Council of UC Faculty Association.
You are debating these proposed tuition increases for one simple reason:
When Governor Brown took office he slashed higher ed.
Even now, a few years into Governor Brown's 'modest funding increases,' he still spends less on UC and CSU than Arnold Schwarzenegger did his final year as Governor.
You should not be arguing how much to raise tuition, but how to mobilize the public support to restore the California Master plan of low cost high quality higher education for all.
Returning to 2001-2002, before the massive tuition increases, returning per-student funding to where it was then, and making room for the thousands of students that have been forced out of the system would cost the median California family just $50 a year.
We call on you to fight to restore the California dream.
November 17, 2014
Ganna Kostygina, Pam Ling, and I recently published "Tobacco industry use of flavours to recruit new users of little cigars and cigarillos" in Tobacco Control showing how the tobacco companies use flavors to attrach new smokers and keep current ones smoking. This work is particularly relevant as the FDA and other agencies consider what to do about flavors.
Here is the abstract:
Objective While flavoured cigarettes were prohibited in the USA in 2009, flavoured little cigars and cigarillos (LCCs) remain on the market. We describe the evolving
strategies used by tobacco companies to encourage uptake of flavoured LCCs and industry research findings on consumer perceptions of flavoured LCC products.
Methods Analysis of internal tobacco industry documents was triangulated with data from tobacco advertisement archives, national newspapers, trade press and the internet.
Results Flavoured LCC products were associated with young and inexperienced tobacco users, women and African-Americans. Internal industry studies confirmed
that menthol and candy-like flavours (eg, vanilla and cherry) increased LCC appeal to starters by masking the heavy cigar taste, reducing throat irritation and making