March 6, 2016
Direct evidence of tobacco product placement and smoking behavioral placement in French movies
Prepared by Pascal Diethelm, president, OxyRomandie
Since the early 1990s, France has one of the strictest tobacco advertising bans in the world. The Loi Évin (law named after Claude Évin, the French minister of health who drafted the law) adopted in 1991 introduced a comprehensive ban of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship, making France compliant with the requirement of the WHO Framework Convention for Tobacco well in advance of its ratification of this international treaty. The law has been generally well enforced, in particular because NGOs acting as watchdogs were allowed by the government to file legal complaints against non-compliant tobacco companies. Overall, for the last 25 years, above-the-line tobacco advertising has been inexistent in France, a country which can therefore be considered one of the darkest markets in the world for tobacco products.
March 4, 2016
We just submitted this public comment to the FDA. The tracking number is 1k0-8ob6-gewv. (PDF version)
RJ Reynold’s Unpublished Randomized Controlled Trial Finds that Camel Snus is Not Effective for Smoking Cessation
Docket No. FDA-2016-N-0073
Eunice E. Neeley, MD, MPH, Lauren K. Lempert, JD, MPH, Stanton A. Glantz, PhD
Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California, San Francisco
RJ Reynolds’ Unpublished Study on Camel Snus Compared to Nicotine Replacement Therapy for Smoking Cessation is Responsive to FDA’s Request for Studies Regarding Predictors of Consumer Initiation, Uptake, and Use of a Tobacco Product
March 4, 2016
We just submitted this public comment to the FDA. The tracking number is 1k0-8ob6-gewv. (PDF version)
RJ Reynold’s Unpublished Randomized Controlled Trial Finds that Camel Snus is Not Effective for Smoking Cessation
Docket No. FDA-2016-N-0073
Eunice E. Neeley, MD, MPH, Lauren K. Lempert, JD, MPH, Stanton A. Glantz, PhD
Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California, San Francisco
RJ Reynolds’ Unpublished Study on Camel Snus Compared to Nicotine Replacement Therapy for Smoking Cessation is Responsive to FDA’s Request for Studies Regarding Predictors of Consumer Initiation, Uptake, and Use of a Tobacco Product
March 2, 2016
Dr. Robert Schwartz from Ontario Canada has prepared a wonderful short video explaining how we can be so certain that smoking in movies causes kids to smoke and why the R rating (18A in Canada) will save lives and money.
Check it out here.
This is cross-posted from the Smoke Free Movies blog at http://smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu/blog/fantastic-short-video-science-behin...
March 2, 2016
According to the Associated Press, the Department of Transportation finally allowed the Department of Transportation to prohibit the use of e-cigarettes on airplanes. It has taken years to get this rule and it comes after all the US airlines I have flown on recently already voluntarily prohibited using e-cigs on their flights.
Now that the White House Office of Management and Budget has let DOT do this, it is past time for them to approve the FDA "deeming rule" that has been sitting at OMB for months (since October 2015). Early last year FDA officials were saying to expect the rule by June 2015. It is not March 2016. In the mean time, youth use continue to explode and the evidence that e-cigs inhibit adult quitting keeps piling up.