June 14, 2014
FDA SHOULD NOT MAKE REGULATORY DECISIONS BASED ON THE "CONTINUUM OF RISK" THEORY UNTIL IT HAS AFFIRMATIVE EVIDENCE THAT, AS ACTUALLY USED, E-CIGARETTES OR OTHER TOBACCO PRODUCTS LOWER POPULATION RISK
Stanton A. Glantz, PhD
Professor of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Docket No. FDA-2014-N-0189
June 14, 2014
Stanford Professor Bonnie Halpern-Felsher just submitted this comment to FDA. The tracking number is 1jy-8cnr-xpv8.
FDA Should Restrict Internet Sales of All Tobacco Products Including E-Cigarettes
Docket No. FDA-2014-N-0189
Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, PhD, FSAHM
Division of Adolescent Medicine
Department of Pediatrics
Stanford University
June 13, 2014
June 13, 2014
The Ontario Tobacco Research Unit in Canada recently published "Exposure to Onscreen Tobacco in Movies among Ontario Youth, 2004-2013". Here is the executive summary:
Movies are a powerful vehicle for promoting tobacco and health; authorities all over the world have concluded that smoking in movies is a cause for smoking initiation and progression to regular smoking among youth. Higher exposure to onscreen tobacco increases the uptake of smoking among youth and undermines tobacco prevention efforts.
June 12, 2014
Jono Polansky, Kori Titus, Natalie Lanning and I just released our report "Smoking in top-grossing US movies: 2013."
The full report is available at www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1n74f4x1
SUMMARY of FINDINGS
• Exposure to on-screen smoking will recruit 6.4 million smokers from among today’s children. Two million of those recruited to smoke by films will die prematurely from tobacco-induced diseases.
• The percentage of youth-rated films with smoking continued a steady decline, with 62 percent of PG-13 films smokefree in 2013 compared to 20 percent in 2002.
• At the same time, tobacco incidents per PG-13 film with smoking are on the rise. In 2012, for the first time, incidents per PG-13 film with smoking were as high as in R-rated films. Incidents climbed 37 percent from 2010 to 2013. The share of PG-13 films with >50 tobacco incidents grew from 17 percent in 2010 to 31 percent in 2012 and 29 percent in 2013
• In 2013, PG-13 films delivered 10.4 billion in-theater tobacco impressions to audiences, 30 percent 30 below 2012 but nearly twice as high as 2010, when smoking in youth-rated films was at its lowest..
June 12, 2014
We just submitted this comment to FDA. The tracking number is 1jy-8cmm-zjhq
The FDA’s Proposed Warnings on Addiction are Inadequate and Do Not Reflect Current Understanding of Appropriate Messaging on Addiction
Docket No. FDA-2014-N-0189