Recent WHO-FCTC declarations regarding restricting tobacco flavorings (and other additives) have raised considerable concern in the African burley growing countries (burley tobacco tends to be processed with additives). Their justification in their own words is One major cause for concern is flavourings and additives being widely used in cigarettes and other tobacco products to increase […]
Monthly Archives: November 2010
It will be quite obvious to anyone following the e-cigarette trend that when smokers started switching here and there that the news reports were for the most part positive. In general, the articles described how smokers who had tried to quit more than once, and through all the usual methods, finally had found something that […]
Imagine this. There is a place I like to drive to. The road leads to a spot where the view is so beautiful and so calming that just to sit there for a while makes everything right. I don’t have to go there but I like to. The road itself is not that safe but […]
I have always found the bans against selling loose cigarettes or cigarettes in packs of less than 20 counter to my sense of harm reduction. Though restricting cigarette purchases to pack only might set a bar too high for some curious not-yet smoker or for a kid with only two dollars in his or her […]
The Canadian Medical Association Journal has popped up in the news again and this time criticizing the government for delaying instituting new warning labels on cigarette packages. (Globe and Mail coverage here and original CMAJ editorial here). Essentially the story is that new labels have been developed but have not been rolled out which will […]
Commenting on the latest MMRW, Doctors Lounge echoes other reports in raising concerns that the growing number of smokers also using smokeless tobacco could result in consumers having a harder time quitting altogether. “The war against tobacco has taken on a new dimension as parts of the country report high rates of cigarette smoking and […]
When I joined this group, one of the first projects was to do a follow up to Carl’s seminal paper: You might as well smoke; the misleading and harmful public message about smokeless tobacco. That 2005 paper trolled the net to see what the dominant messages were regarding smokeless tobacco in comparison to smoking and […]
There has been a subtle yet crucial shift in ideology which has led tobacco policies astray. Consider that the statement using tobacco can result in disease is markedly different from the statement using tobacco results in disease. The first recognizes that tobacco use is a risk factor and the second is a gross generalization. The […]
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