Council Votes to Boost Butts (from New York Post)
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Friday, October 16, 2009
By Jeff Stier. The City Council this week voted 46-1 to ban many flavorings in a variety of tobacco products -- and the result will be far more damaging to safer tobacco forms such as smokeless -- and safer nicotine delivery systems such as e-cigarettes -- than to the cigarettes that really kill Americans...  Read Full >>

FDA's Drug and E-Cigarette Warnings Counterproductive (from The Hill)
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Type : Letter
Publish Date : Monday, September 14, 2009
By Jeff Stier. A major policy shift is underway, and it is bound to have a dangerous unintended consequence...  Read Full >>

FDA Smoke Screen on E-Cigarettes (from the Washington Times)
Cigarette substitute produces no deadly smoke
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Thursday, August 6, 2009
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan.  At a time when the government is ostensibly trying to cut health costs, why is it trying to ban something that might help...  Read Full >>

Punitive Taxes on Food Won't Change People's Eating Habits (from Cleveland Plain Dealer)
By Ruth Kava, Ph.D., R.D.
Type : Letter
Publish Date : Thursday, May 21, 2009
By Dr. Ruth Kava.  John F. Banzhaf III errs in assuming obesity and smoking can be treated in the same way...  Read Full >>

House Lights Up FDA Regulation (from the Washington Times)
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Monday, April 6, 2009
By Jeff Stier.  Congress is now considering two rival approaches to altering tobacco regulations...  Read Full >>