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Ottawa’s Tobacco Tax Should Reflect The Relative Risks of Different Products

In its budget statement, the federal government announced that it would introduce a special excise levy on vaping products in 2022. A recent paper...

During the EVALI lung crisis, my state banned all vapes. We were wrong.

Earlier this month, a federally-funded study on vaping-related lung injuries confirmed what experts have been saying for years: Legal, regulated cannabis is far safer...

Backlash Against the FDA Grows as Vape Company Ramps Up Legal Fight

On October 20, My Vape Order (MVO) petitioned a federal court of appeals for “an emergency motion for a stay pending a review and...

Up In Smoke: How Vape Bans Increase Tobacco Use

I remember my local pub a decade ago.  Just outside, the smokers would gather, sipping their beer and blowing streams of smoke into the air...

Re-exploring the early relationship between teenage cigarette and e-cigarette use using price and tax changes

In 2016, the Surgeon General used longitudinal cohort studies to conclude that youth e-cigarette use is strongly associated with cigarette use. We re-evaluate data from...