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Big Tobacco Moves Forward With Plans to Develop New, Healthier Cigarette

Mathew Steingraber, founder of Tampa Bay’s White Cloud Electronic Cigarettes, said news of this move comes as a surprise to some in the e cigarette business. “Electronic cigarettes are already a lower health risk when compared with tobacco cigarettes b
SBWire
added Jul 11, 2012 06:27
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[Canada] Tasha Kheiriddin: Ottawa smoking bylaw chooses shaming over success

If you don’t want to inhale, I say stand upwind and stop hectoring those who do . . . Bylaws aren’t the answer, but harm reduction just may be.
National Post blogs (ca)
added Jul 4, 2012 16:59
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SIEGEL: Anti-Smoking Advocate Uses Bogus Research to Deny Overwhelming Scientific Evidence on Electronic Cigarettes

In other words, this study did not estimate quit rates among smokers trying to quit using e-cigarettes. Instead, it estimated quit rates among many smokers who were not using e-cigarettes in their quit attempt at all!
The Rest of the Story-Tobacco Analasys and Commentary (Michael Siegel blog)
added Jun 3, 2013 12:57
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Less Risky Tobacco Product? Only if the Science Says So

No tobacco product is safe. / But some could be more dangerous than others.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
added Jun 2, 2012 16:01
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de ANDRADE/HASTINGS: Tobacco harm reduction and e-cigarettes: setting a unified research agenda

It is vital that the tobacco control movement agrees a unified strategy to address these developments; amidst all the uncertainty there is one certainty: any divisions will be ruthlessly exploited by vested interest. This taxonomy of harm reduction resea
Tobacco Control Journal blogs
added May 29, 2013 15:53
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[Europe, UK] LYONS: The new EU directive: quit smoking or die

In December 2012, the EU's executive, the European Commission, announced its proposals to revise the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), originally passed in 2001, to take account of 'significant scientific, market and international developments' that have
spiked (uk)
added May 9, 2013 17:22
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Hearing set for smokeless-tobacco petition

A petition filed by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. may represent the boldest step to date in trying to market smokeless-tobacco products as a less harmful alternative to cigarettes. The Food and Drug Administration will hold a hearing Monday in which it wil
Winston-Salem (NC) Journal
added Dec 13, 2012 15:21
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[Canada] Carl V Phillips - TobaccoTactics

Phillips is a former Associate Professor of the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Alberta (Canada). He now runs his own private research consultancy, Populi Health Institute. Phillips has received funding from the tobacco industry
TobaccoTactics
added Sep 8, 2012 13:16
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[Australia] Tobacco Makers Gears up Further Devt of Smokeless Cigars

The Financial Times reported on Sunday that cigarette manufacturers were being forced to innovate in order to protect a global industry that by the last count has generated some $664 billion in revenues as of the end of 2011. The estimates were provided
International Business Times (au)
added Aug 13, 2012 12:18
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Star Scientific Exiting Tobacco Business

Will discontinue manufacturing, distribution, sale of Ariva, Stonewall dissolvable products
Convenience Store/Petroleum (CSPNet)
added Dec 18, 2012 17:56
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