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Over the course of my career as a science journalist I’ve learned an important but disheartening lesson: experts are allowed to mislead the public about certain health topics. One of the most egregious cases is nicotine vaping.

The data comes from the National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS), an annual, repeated cross-sectional survey of 186,000 US middle and high school students providing the current snapshot.

The review involved 319 randomized controlled studies involving adults smoking tobacco at the time of entry, using one of the “approved pharmacotherapies and tec

The Food and Drug Administration recently held an “

ACSH believes that smoking is bad for you and that switching to nicotine vaping is a form of harm reduction for those smoking. We do not advocate for consuming nicotine in any form.

The manifold problems begin with the FDA’s authorization process for e-cigarettes.

If you are of a certain age, you will remember the television and radio ads for Syms clothing. Remember his tagline, "An educated consumer is our best customer?" But in today’s online world, is that possible? Was it ever possible?

Anti-smoking groups had a serious problem on their hands.

If you need further evidence that the tobacco-control movement has lost its way, consider this December 1 story from

Join our directors of bio-sciences and medicine, Cameron English and Dr. Chuck Dinerstein, as they break down these stories on episode 26 of the Science Dispatch podcast.