January 14, 2016
Here is the press release UCSF sent out about it:
E-Cigarettes, As Used, Aren’t Helping Smokers Quit, Study Shows
New Analysis by UCSF Found “Vapers” Are 28 Percent Less Likely to Stop Smoking
January 13, 2016
January 12, 2016
Wendy Max, Hai-Yen Sung, and I submitted this public comment on HUD’s regulatory impact analysis of its proposed rule making some public housing smokefree. Like the Obama Administration’s FDA, this cost benefit analysis overstated costs and grossly understated the benefits of the old rule (including ignoring most health benefits of quitting and discounting the few health benefits of quitting HUD did consider for “lost pleasure”, although not as much as the FDA did.)
A PDF version of this comment is here. The tracking number is 1k0-8nct-upuf. HUD's rule is here and the regulatory impact anaysis is here.
Comment on Regulatory Impact Analysis for
HUD Proposed Rule
Instituting Smoke-Free Public Housing
Docket No. FR 5597-P-02
Wendy Max, PhD
Professor of Health Economics
Hai-Yen Sung, PhD
January 12, 2016
January 12, 2016
After rebounding in recent years, 2015 tobacco counts fell across most of the film industry, in some cases approaching or exceeding 2010 lows. (See film list)
Films with tobacco
Overall, 50 percent of all top-grossing US films featured tobacco imagery in 2015, down from 72 percent in 2002, when the Smokefree Movies campaign was launched. Thirteen percent of G/PG films, 47 percent of PG-13 films and 69 percent of R-rated films showed tobacco.
In 2015, 46 percent of all films with tobacco carried a youth-accessible rating from the MPAA (PG or PG-13). There were 31 youth-rated films with tobacco in 2015, half the number in 2002.
Tobacco incidents in films