The Truth About Nicotine

Some people have suggested that the way to help more smokers quit is to offer treatment for a longer period--say from 6 to 8 months, as opposed to 6 to 8 weeks.  Will that work? What happ...

http://nicotinetruth.blogspot.com/2012/03/chronic-conditions-require-ongoing.html

This oped in the Washington Times is centered on a different technology issue, but it applies quite nicely to the issue of regulation of electronic cigarettes, IMHO. SWINDLE: Technological innov...

http://nicotinetruth.blogspot.com/2011/12/regulation-stifles-technology.html

Often when writing an otherwise positive story on e-cigarettes, journalists go looking for someone in the medical profession to supply a quote in opposition to the devices. It’s just too bad th...

http://nicotinetruth.blogspot.com/2011/12/inexpert-opinion.html

Many folks believe that if a smoker switches to a different source of nicotine, it is inevitable that he or she will start smoking again. But is that true?   It's true that people who use the...

http://nicotinetruth.blogspot.com/2011/10/nicotine-not-cause-of-relapse-to.html

In a "Perspective" published in the July 21, 2011 issue of New England Journal of Medicine, Pulmonologist Nathan K. Cobb and David B. Abrams, PhD, director of the Legacy Foundation’s Schroeder ...

http://nicotinetruth.blogspot.com/2011/09/perspective-authors-promote-myths.html

Started a new discussion topic: http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=14716&uid=47308341278#!/topic.php?uid=47308341278&topic=14716 ACHIEVING SMOKING ABSTINENCE I notice that the Commission ...

http://nicotinetruth.blogspot.com/2011/03/boston-public-health-commissions.html

Proposed legislation that keeps popping up in states and municipalities across the United States contains strangely similar wording calling for e-cigarettes to be included in smoking bans. I trac...

http://nicotinetruth.blogspot.com/2011/03/americans-for-some-nonsmokers-rights.html

During the Public Hearings on a bill that would have banned flavored liquid for electronic cigarettes, one health advocate testified: > The problem is that a lethal dose of nicotine fo...

http://nicotinetruth.blogspot.com/2011/03/e-cigarettes-dialog-on-flavors-and.html

Recently, a member of the Consumer Avocates for Smoke-Free Alternatives Association (CASAA) who lives in New Jersey contacted me for help in responding to a letter he received from his State Sena...

http://nicotinetruth.blogspot.com/2011/02/who-opinion-not-more-important-than.html

An Open Letter to New York Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal: “If I can do it, anyone can do it.” In 1990, there were 43.8 million cigarette smokers in the U.S. Twenty years later, the number ...

http://nicotinetruth.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-way-or-die-way.html

It is shocking to read that the Parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) want to prevent the use of two of the most effective methods for achiev...

http://nicotinetruth.blogspot.com/2010/11/who-fctc-may-kill-millions-of-smokers.html

Compare and contrast reality with fears about electronic cigarettes voiced by people who have never seen one, never talked to anyone who used one, and never bothered to read the available studies...

http://nicotinetruth.blogspot.com/2010/11/reality-faces-off-against-unfounded.html

Nicotine is neither a nutrient nor a naturally occurring substance in the body. However, nicotine mimics the effects of acetylcholine (ACh) throughout the body, and ACh is a naturally-occurring s...

http://nicotinetruth.blogspot.com/2010/11/biological-basis-of-need-for-nicotine.html

Recently the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) invited the public to submit suggestions to the Center for Tobacco Products for educational resources to be added to the training program fo...

http://nicotinetruth.blogspot.com/2010/09/fda-cant-handle-truth.html

I started to write this article in August, right after California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced a settlement with Sottera, the corporation that markets the NJOY electronic smok...

http://nicotinetruth.blogspot.com/2010/09/case-of-legalized-extortion.html

A Central Michigan University (CMU) official recommends that students stick with smoking real cigarettes. Shaun Holtgreive, associate director of Residence Life at CMU, announced that electronic ...

http://nicotinetruth.blogspot.com/2010/08/central-michigan-university-just-keep.html

In a recently published study in the British Medical Journal Tobacco Control, Adrienne B Mejia, Pamela M Ling, and Stanton A Glantz state, “Promoting smokeless tobacco as a safer alternative to...

http://nicotinetruth.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-if-we-told-truth-about-snus.html

Dr. Michael Siegel has said, “When you write an op-ed, you essentially become an authority on the topic you are writing about and you take on the responsibility of researching the topic to mak...

http://nicotinetruth.blogspot.com/2010/07/unethical-soup.html

Since the fall of 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been at war with the electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) industry. Claiming that the products are drug/device combination pr...

http://nicotinetruth.blogspot.com/2010/06/fda-misleading-report-strategy.html

The Smoke-Free Wisconsin blog commented on the press release by the American Medical Association (AMA) announcing a resolution that called upon the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regu...

http://nicotinetruth.blogspot.com/2010/06/smoke-free-wisconsin-and-ama.html

EXCERPT FROM EMAIL RECEIVED MAY 9, 2010 > Helping people quit using tobacco is a top priority of the American > Heart Association and we will continue to do all that we c...

http://nicotinetruth.blogspot.com/2010/05/american-heart-association-prevents.html

"Until the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) determines that e-cigarettes are safe for consumers, the American Lung Association urges consumers not to use these products." -- Letter from Ch...

http://nicotinetruth.blogspot.com/2010/05/lung-association-recommends-smoking.html

I am confused. Your web site states "Public Citizen serves as the people’s voice in the nation’s capital." And yet, we see your organization's name on the Amicus Brief filed on behalf of FDA...

http://nicotinetruth.blogspot.com/2010/04/email-message-to-public-citizen.html

The American Association of Public Health Physicians (AAPHP) has submitted two tobacco-related petitions to FDA. The first requested that FDA reclassify electronic cigarettes from a drug to a tob...

http://nicotinetruth.blogspot.com/2010/03/aaphp-petitions-to-fda-on-e-cigarettes.html

In response to pressure from many groups, the FDA wants to regulate electronic cigarettes as a drug-delivery device. This approach would remove the products from the market until (if ever) clinic...

http://nicotinetruth.blogspot.com/2010/03/nrt-versus-smoking-substitute.html