San Francisco Lawmakers are More Interested in Regulating the Mission of Stores and Feeling Good About Themselves than Protecting the Public’s Health
After its ban on tobacco sales in pharmacies was struck down by the courts because there was no rational basis to exclude pharmacies in supermarkets and box stores from the ban, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is now considering extending the ban to all pharmacies. The purpose of the ban, according to one Supervisor, is to ensure that pharmacies sell healthy products, not products that harm people. An article in the San Francisco Examiner explains the rationale: “Cigarettes and chewing tobacco are a tiny fraction of the products sold, and pharmacies should be selling medicine and helpful items, not items like cigarettes that kill you,” said Supervisor Eric Mar, who introduced legislation Tuesday that broadens the tobacco ban
New Study Concludes that Secondhand Smoke Causes Poor Academic Performance
A study published online ahead of print in the Journal of Pediatrics concludes that secondhand smoke causes poor academic performance among nonsmoking school students, ages 11-20 (see: Ho S-Y et al.
Study Concludes that Higher Intensity Puffing Required for E-Cigarettes May Have Adverse Effects on Health, But Doesn’t Consider Toxicity of the Vapor
A new study published online ahead of print in the journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research finds that electronic cigarettes require higher intensity puffing than conventional cigarettes and concludes that this may result in adverse health effects. According to the study: “Except for one brand, higher vacuums were required to smoke e-cigarettes than conventional brands. Smoke/aerosol density was stable for conventional brands and for e-cigarettes over the first 10 puffs; however, aerosol density of e-cigarettes dropped during subsequent smoking, and higher vacuums were required to produce aerosol as the puff number increased.” The study concludes: “Generally, e-cigarettes required stronger vacuums (suction) to smoke than conventional brands, and the effects of this on human health could be adverse
Will World Health Organization Declare that Winston Cigarettes are Safer and/or Less Enticing to Kids than Other Cigarettes?
According to an article in the Louisville Journal-Courier , Kentucky’s main crop – burley tobacco – could be devastated by regulations being proposed by a working group of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). How could this be
