February 15, 2014
We just submitted this public comment through regulations.gov (tracking number 1jy-8ags-t5ln)
COMMENT SUBMITTED IN RESPONSE TO FDA ON PROPOSED COLLECTION OF INFORMATION REGARDING EXEMPTIONS FROM SUBSTANTIAL EQUIVALENCE REQUIREMENTS FOR TOBACCO PRODUCTS
Docket No. FDA-2013-N-1588
Stanton Glantz, PhD
Lauren Lempert, JD, MPH
Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education
University of California San Francisco
February 17, 2014
We submit these comments in response to FDA’s notice concerning the proposed collection of information regarding exemptions from substantial equivalence requirements for tobacco products. We previously submitted public comments on substantial equivalence in reference to docket 2010-D-0635 which are incorporated by reference in this comment.[1]
February 15, 2014
February 11, 2014
Joanna Coles, editor of Cosmopolitan, sent a Tweet showing e-cigarette use at a White House state dinner yesterday.
At a time that kid use of these products is exploding, President Obama should not be promoting nicotine addiction. He should follow the cities and states that are including e-cigs in their clean indoor air policies.
By allowing this he is setting a terrible example for parents and their kids.
February 11, 2014
I will be presenting a free webinar on smoking in the movies that will present the current science, policy solutions, and state of play on February 25, 2014 from 10:00 - 11:30 Pacific Time sponsored by the UCSF Smoking Cessation Leadership Center.
The webinar is free, but the Smoking Cessation leadership center asks people to register in advance here: https://cc.readytalk.com/r/3eecieimeib4&eom
Interested people can get CME credits, too.
The new ITC study of US smokers is a treasure trove of data; shows continuing "softening" of smoking
February 8, 2014
The International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project released an extensive report summarizing data collected from US smokers last week that provides a very detailed view of what has and has not changed for smokers' between 2002 (when the first wave was collected) through 2011 (when the last wave was collected).
The ITC project is a longitudinal study, which follows the same people forward in time, so it gives the best view of what is changing and what is staying the same for smokers.
In order to keep their sample size big enough to draw reasonably precise conclusions, however, the ITC project recruits additional smokers at each survey wave (roughly annually) to replace smokers who quit or die, so there is the possibility that the nature of the cohort is changing over time. This could be a particularly important effect if, as smoking prevalence drops, the remaining smokers are increasingly the "hard core" who harm reduction advocates describe as people who "will not or cannot quit."