Showing posts with label nicotine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nicotine. Show all posts
Sunday, June 23, 2024

Black markets for cigarettes in Gaza

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  The WSJ has the story: At $25 Each, Cigarettes Are Turning Gaza Aid Trucks Into Targets   By Stephen Kalin, Dov Lieber and Fatima AbdulKar...
Thursday, June 13, 2024

Do e-cigarettes lead to combustables? (Two NBER papers).

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  Two NBER working papers on flavor bans for e-cigarettes, and possible migration to combustables: The Effect of E-Cigarette Flavor Bans on ...
Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Nicotine is hard to ban: Juul wins a reprieve from the FDA, and illegal vapes flood the market

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 Here are two stories by Jennifer Maloney at the WSJ: FDA Rescinds Juul Ban, Opening Door for Federal Clearance. E-cigarette maker’s product...
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Marijuana policy and use in the U.S., 1979-2022, by Jonathan Caulkins, in Addiction

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 Here's a paper forthcoming in the journal Addiction: Changes in self-reported cannabis use in the United States from 1979 to 2022 , by ...
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Menthol cigarettes get a reprieve

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 The WSJ has the story: Biden Administration Shelves Plan to Ban Menthol Cigarettes . White House had been weighing health benefit of ban ag...
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Proposed age-adjusted smoking ban in the U.K.

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  The BBC has the story, about a proposal to ban smoking for everyone currently under the age of 18. (What could go wrong?) What is the UK ...
Thursday, March 14, 2024

New Zealand repeals anti-smoking law that would have prevented tobacco sales to anyone born after 2008

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 In an earlier blog post , I wrote about a New Zealand anti-smoking law, saying "And now there's a law that cuts nicotine content o...
Saturday, October 7, 2023

Nicotine in New Zealand, banned for the future generation.

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 In New Zealand, the incidence of smoking is down, but not so much among the Maori. And now there's a law that cuts nicotine content of ...
Friday, September 1, 2023

Innovations in addiction technology--illicitly manufactured fentanyl (IMF) combined with xylazine

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 The fight against addictions is complicated by the fact that those who sell addictive goods can be innovative on many levels. (In the case ...
Saturday, June 10, 2023

Canada to require health warnings on individual cigarettes

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  The Washington Post has the story: Canada to require health warnings on individual cigarettes  By Sarah Dadouch "Beginning next year...
Friday, May 5, 2023

New York doesn't ban Menthol cigarettes, amid controversy

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 The NYT has the stories, first about the proposed ban, and then about the budget compromise that defeated it: Black Smokers at Center of Ne...
Friday, February 3, 2023

Selling flavored cigarettes after California's ban

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 It's hard to regulate tobacco. The NY Times brings us up to date on California's ban on flavored tobacco products. R.J. Reynolds Pi...
Friday, January 6, 2023

Nicotine will be with us for a long time--survey of middle school use

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 Sales of tobacco products to minors are generally illegal in the U.S., but a survey shows that doesn't stop children from smoking and v...
Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Suppressing vaping is hard

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  The WSJ has the story: Major effort needed to remove illegal vaping products, review finds. Group says FDA regulators are overwhelmed and ...
Thursday, November 24, 2022

Lobbying for sports gambling, with cigars and whisky

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 Do addictions go together?  The NY Times has the story of how legalized (online, sports) gambling lobbyists wooed state legislators with wh...
Monday, November 14, 2022

California referendum bans flavored tobacco

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More midterm election news on controversial markets and repugnant transactions: California bans flavored tobacco products, including vapes ,...