Category: Tobacco

Is this more or less ironic than anti-tobacco groups accepting tobacco revenues? Continue reading 'Irony Alert! British Coal Mining Museum Switches to Solar Power'

Except that none of the mice studied got lung cancer. Continue reading Scientists discover link between estrogen and tobacco smoke?

“It’s bad news.” Continue reading Majority of fourth graders are exposed to smoke, study finds

At least one claimed effect (decline in FEV1) is clinically insignificant and the others are reversible with smoking cessation. Continue reading Hype: Surgeon General takes another aim at youth smoking

“‘With tobacco cigarettes a user generally knows how much nicotine is being consumed. … When it comes to an electronic cigarette, you just don’t know …’ This is also entirely false.” Continue reading English: Utah E-Cigarette Ban Based On Junk Science

“This week there was another development in the Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA) push to regulate cigars. The agency announced it was extending the public comment period on it’s proposed regulation of cigars.” Continue reading StogieGuys: Still Time to Oppose FDA Regulation of Cigars

The smoking ban-heart attack scam continues. Continue reading Mayo Clinic study confirms smoking ban efficacy?

How did all those baby boomers survive? Continue reading The Horror: Millions of California children still exposed to secondhand smoke

So it wasn’t the floor seats at 1970s rock concerts that hurt my hearing; it was the guy next to me lighting up? Continue reading Please don't smoke so loudly

Billions of people have been exposed to secondhand smoke during the past 400 or so years… so let’s ignore that and consider what happened to 32 mice over the course of two weeks. Continue reading New tobacco warning: Don't smoke around mice

By Steve Milloy
December 12, 2010, JunkScience.com

Let’s all thank Surgeon General Regina Benjamin for demonstrating beyond all doubt last week that nannyism is more dangerous than smoking. Continue reading Surgeon General Jumps the Shark