Earlier this year, the American College of Chest Physicians issued guidelines stating that doctors should consider low-dose CT screening for individuals at high risk for lung cancer. Now the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is following in their footsteps
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Earlier this month, we reported on research done by Ronald Bayer and Kathleen Bachynski at Columbia s Mailman School of Public Health, looking at the scientific justification for banning smoking in parks and on beaches.
The FDA s Center for Tobacco Products, through its head, Mitch Zeller, made yet another non-announcement yesterday concerning menthol cigarettes. The 2009 law
Today s edition of Lancet Respiratory Medicine has a debate on the crucial question of whether e-cigarettes should be regulated, and if so how, and by whom?
This week marks the 10 year anniversary of New York s indoor smoking ban. According to Blair Horner, vice president of advocacy at the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network,
In a predictable yet still tragic outcome, a key committee of the EU Parliament yesterday voted to effectively ban electronic cigarettes containing more than a minimum level of nicotine.
Picture this. A summer day spent at the beach, with not a cigarette smoker in sight. Sounds like an ideal image, right? Depending on where you are, this might become a reality,
The European Parliament will be meeting next week in Brussels, and they may be confronted with a populist uprising based on sound science, a most unusual occurrence. The topic: e-cigarettes, and the asinine draft Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) crafted last December by the EU Health committee.
At last, as the song goes, the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) — charged with regulating cigarettes, loose tobacco, “snuff,” and chewing tobacco by the new law in 2009 — has actually done something. Or has it? Because of the byzantine nature of the “Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act,” the FDA was [...]
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Dr. Brad Rodu, one of the world's greatest experts on tobacco harm reduction, has published an overview of what might save millions of smokers this century.
Here’s some good news. A report released Tuesday by the CDC found that the rate of smoking among adults in the United States has fallen to 18 percent. Although the rate of smoking has been falling over the past few decades, it had stalled at about 20 percent for the past seven years. The report [...]
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