March 29, 2015
Julia Belluz of Vox Media published an excellent story summing up the hyper-aggressive social media presence that e-cigarette advocates have mounted against anyone with the temerity to question the unrestricted use of e-cigarettes.
She did a particularly nice job of describing attacks on the California Department of Public Health’s new educational campaign.
No doubt they will be going after the CDC next, as it launches ads warning against dual use of e-cigs and cigarettes.
You can read her story here.
March 29, 2015
E-cigarette enthusiasts, particularly from the UK, have consistently minimized the possibility that e-cigarette use was increasing among kids and that e-cigarette use would predict later smoking.
Graham Moore and colleagues recently published “E-cigarette use and intentions to smoke among 10-11-year-old never-smokers in Wales,” a carefully done survey of 1500 youth that found that
March 25, 2015
From Public Citizen c/o Ellen Shaffer at CPATH:
This leak of TPP investment provisions appears as negotiators report that they are close to an agreement. The chapter includes provisions regarding corporate rights to file trade challenges against sovereign nations' laws and regulations, including a wide range of public health protections. The Obama Administration is grasping at a PR campaign to convince progressives that the TPP fulfills candidate Obama's pledge in 2008 to re-negotiate NAFTA - !! Best, Ellen Shaffer
For Immediate Release: Contact: Symone Sanders (202) 454-5108
March 25, 2015 Lori Wallach (202) 454-5107, [email protected]
TPP Leak Reveals Extraordinary New Powers for Thousands of Foreign Firms to Challenge U.S. Policies and Demand Taxpayer Compensation
Unveiling of Parallel Legal System for Foreign Corporations Will Fuel TPP Controversy, Further Complicate Obama’s Push for Fast Track
March 24, 2015
Hollywood and Tobacco: New Spotlight on Smoking At The Movies
Launch of Revamped UCSF Website Ranks Actors, Directors, Top 10 Movies by Their Use of Tobacco
UC San Francisco is launching a revamped Smokefree Movies website that offers the public unusual insight into Hollywood’s role in the global tobacco epidemic, projected to kill one billion people this century.
Updated every week, the site ranks film producers, directors, writers and actors by their on-screen tobacco footprint based on a database of more than 2,000 films released since 2002.
The site currently lists the five “smokiest” actors, directors, and producers since 2002 as:
Actors Directors Producers
Leonardo DiCaprio Martin Scorsese Grant Heslov
J.K. Simmons George Clooney George Clooney
Vince Vaughn Clint Eastwood Scott Rudin
March 23, 2015
Lucy England and colleagues at the CDC Office on Smoking and Health recently published an important paper, "Nicotine and the Developing Human: A Neglected Element in the Electronic Cigarette Debate," in American Journal of Preventive Medicine. This paper makes the important point that, contrary to glib assertions e-cigarette enthusiasts make that "it is the tar not the nicotine in cigarettes that kills people" they add to case that nicotine, while not the only dangerous thing in cigarettes, is nonetheless dangerous.
Here is the abstract of their paper: