Yesterday, at the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens committee hearing in Trenton, New Jersey, the focus was on a bill that would impose a wholesale sales tax of 75 percent on e-cigarettes.
smoking cessation
More political claptrap on the threat to our youth of e-cigarettes, from the usual crowd of Democratic senators, only in a more formal arena. And the CDC and FDA seem to disagree, a bit. How did the clown Harkin get to be a public health arbiter?
Dr. Gilbert Ross in The Buffalo News, May 13, 2014.
When politicians play scientist, or worse, doctor,
Dr. Gilbert Ross in The American, May 14, 2014.
At last, after months
NYS Senate panel to deliberate on how to reduce access to effective smoking cessation method, thanks to testimony from experts committed to keeping e-cigarettes off the market, while barring other testimony. Democracy? Not really, nor public health.
Dr. Gilbert Ross in the Ithaca Journal, April 24, 2014.
While cigarettes continue to kill a half-million Americans each year while holding 100-fold that number in
Dr. Gilbert Ross in the Detroit Free Press, May 5, 2014.
As the nation continues its fight against smoking
FDA finally issues proposed regulations on e-cigarettes. The complex, 241-page report has something for everyone: good bad and otherwise. The key for America s smokers: e-cigs will remain accessible indefinitely to help them quit.
Dr. Gilbert Ross in The Star-Ledger, April 10, 2014
What a breath of fresh air it was to read
Another scare story about toxic nicotine poisonings: another epidemic without any actual victims. But yes, do be careful! Some day, someone will be poisoned we re only human after all.
More fearmongering hype about e-cigarettes: Minnesota Dept. of Health trumpets alarming increase in children s poisoning from e-cigarettes. Let s look at the data: nothing actually happened, but let s be very afraid anyway.
Dr. Gilbert Ross in the National Review Online, March 12, 2014.