It has been known for some time that those who cannot legally buy cigarettes will find other sources. Youth tend to get most of their tobacco from family or friends, or proxy buyers. They know that most retailers will not sell to them. Now, we have yet another report from Ontario that contraband cigarettes are […]
Monthly Archives: October 2010
The Canadian Convenience Stores Association have asked “the Federal and Provincial governments to adopt a freeze on new regulation or taxation of legal tobacco products until the authorities have significantly reduced the contraband tobacco rate to under 10 per cent for a sustained period”. (Story here.) Reports of increased black market activity in tobacco have […]
Breaking news out of the University of California labs: Harm Reduction Cigarettes Can Be More Harmful Than Conventional Brands, UC Riverside Researchers Report: Prue Talbot’s lab studied the effect of cigarette smoke on human embryonic stem cells. Perhaps when you are focussed on the minutia of determining the effects of tobacco smoke on embryonic stem […]
Rather than post a full article today. it seemed appropriate to promote a couple of articles elsewhere worth reading and some short comments on a couple of recent news items. First the articles. 1. I was going to critique another of the Tobacco Control envisioning “new ways” articles, the Hatsukami et al which suggested various […]
We’ve already discussed two of the papers (see here and here) in the October issue of Tobacco Control. The introductory editorial Imagining things otherwise: new endgame ideas for tobacco control by Ruth Malone describes the issue as dealing with: Where are we going in tobacco control long-term, and how will we get there? This issue […]
If a doctor’s obese patient starts exercising a little and eating less, and losing some weight, that doctor will be pleased. And if they have a smoker who has cut their smoking in half, they will praise that patient. And if on a national scale obesity levels dropped by half, it would be cause for […]
This the fourth of a series on this latest development at the FCTC. See Part1: Background, Part2, and Part3 This is the last worrying of this sad, and sadly influential, document. This document which lists off various risks of the use of smokeless tobacco (ST) without differentiation among types, does so, only to make an […]
This the third of a series on this latest development at the FCTC. See Part1: Background and Part2. In the Convention Secretariat report concern is expressed over the welfare of the disadvantaged but a disparagement of cheap sources of nicotine that would soften their plight. First a little context on how much of a threat […]
This the second of a series on this latest development at the FCTC. See Part1: Background. In a thoughtful overview of smokeless tobacco and its application to harm reduction, Snus Use in the U.S.: Reducing Harm or Creating It? (from the most recent edition of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute) Renee Twombly writes: […]
This a first of a series on this latest development at the FCTC. Though I am not that conversant with the World Health Organization, they seem to do some good in the world, not unlike the FDA. And just like the FDA when they turn their gaze (via the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control) onto […]
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