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Heartland Daily Podcast – Dr. Brad Rodu: Tobacco Harm Reduction
In this episode of The Heartland Daily Podcast, research fellow Jesse Hathaway is joined by Dr. Brad Rodu, Endowed Chair in Tobacco Harm Reduction Research at the University of Louisville’s James...
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Smoking Cessation: Minimal Impact on Weight
The association of tobacco use and body weight has long been a matter of concern. In 2004, I collaborated with Swedish investigators to publish the first research on whether switching from cigarettes...
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E-Cigarettes Can Save Lives, Taxpayer Dollars
For decades, lawmakers and regulators in the United States have attempted to reduce smoking rates using taxes, smoking bans, and regulations. Despite these heavy-handed policies, the decline in smoking...
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E-Cigarettes Not a Path to Smoking
In an editorial calling for regulations which would put obstacles in front of adults who seek to quit smoking by switching to e-cigarettes, The Sun’s editorial board relies on a powerfully debunked...
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Association of Youth E-Cigarette Bans with Increased Smoking Confirmed
There is fresh evidence indicating that attempts to prohibit youth access to e-cigarettes increase youth smoking rates. Last November, I discussed a Yale research finding that smoking increased...
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E-Cigarettes: A Better Way to Quit Smoking, Heartland Institute Panel Says
Cigarette smoking has become significantly less popular in the U.S. over the past decade, it still remains a public-health scourge. Smoking accounts for more than 480,000 deaths every year in this...
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FDA Went Way Too Far on E-Cigarettes
The FDA wasn’t wrong to regulate e-cigarettes. It was wrong to effectively ban, by its own estimate, up to 98.5% of the e-cigarettes on the market today. E-cigarettes, Public Health England says, are...
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Don’t Let FDA Kill Vaping
Legislators have long attempted to reduce the negative health impacts of smoking through taxes, bans, and regulations. Some have tried to extend these same policies to electronic cigarettes or...
View ArticleIn The Tank Podcast (ep51): Olympics, TN Pork Report, Wind Energy, and the...
John and Donny continue their weekly exploration of think tanks across the country in episode #51 of the In The Tank Podcast. This weekly podcast features (as always) interviews, debates, and...
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FDA Study: Cancer Risks Nearly Nil for 1-2 Cigars Per Day
The FDA, which now regulates cigars, has taken the position that “cigar smoking carries many of the same health risks as cigarette smoking.” The agency is requiring cigar packages and ads to display...
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Global Cigarette Smuggling Is So Profitable – The UN Is Getting In On It
No one breaks the law of unintended consequences – more than government. Governments everywhere decades ago launched the War on Tobacco. Which they tell us is to protect us from ourselves (which – here...
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Heartland Daily Podcast [Voices of Vapers] – Robin Barsky: The Health...
In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Lindsey Stroud speaks with Robin Barsky. Barsky, a nurse and member of the board of The Vaping Militia, discusses the health care implications of...
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Memo to Feds: Tobacco ≠ Smoking
Government officials almost always use the word “tobacco” when they are actually discussing “cigarettes” or “smoking.” This practice is apparent in a 2015 progress report from the Centers for Disease...
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Sacramento Bee Errs Twice with Fake News on E-Cigarettes
The Sacramento Bee on January 21 published a column written by a hearing aids company executive. Titled “E-cigarettes may also cause hearing loss” (here), the piece asserted that “damage to inner ear...
View ArticleIn The Tank (ep78) – Tax Cut Roundup, Alternatives to Smoking, and the Cost...
John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #78 of the In The Tank Podcast. This weekly podcast features (as always) interviews, debates, and roundtable discussions that explore the work of think...
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Will the FDA ‘Deeming Rule’ Spell the Demise of the Vaping Industry?
Vaping: How Government Regulation Can Kill Innovation was the topic of The Heartland Institute’s continuing series of Wednesday evening events that are available free to the public. Featured speakers...
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Promote Health by Not Defending the E-Cigarette Ban
Harm reduction — opting for a product or activity that is not harmless but is better than the existing alternative — is a common and obvious strategy that we employ almost unthinkingly. For example,...
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Health Departments Lobbying Against E-Cigs Are Robbing Taxpayers, Harming...
As if the Food and Drug Administration’s deeming regulations weren’t enough to stall the future of the vaping industry, numerous county health departments have decided to lodge themselves in the war...
View ArticleIn The Tank (ep130) – Daylight Savings Time, Medicaid Waiting Lists, Horse...
John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #130 of the In The Tank Podcast. This weekly podcast features (as always) interviews, debates, and roundtable discussions that explore the work of think...
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FDA Creates Cigarette Confusion – Calls for Science to Back up Policy
Washington, D.C. –The FDA today announced a plan to move forward to develop a regulation that would mandate a reduction in nicotine in combustible cigarettes to a very low level. The FDA justified the...
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