Showing posts with label nicotine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nicotine. Show all posts
Thursday, August 14, 2025

Alcohol is being out-competed by nicotine (and maybe by pretty good non-alcoholic beer)

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 The WSJ has the story: Nicotine Is Hot, Beer Is Not. What Vice Stocks Say About America’s Guilty Pleasures. People are smoking less, but to...
Monday, August 4, 2025

Brain drugs, a review (performance enhancement, side effects, and addiction)

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 From the Free Press,  tasting notes on a variety of performance enhancing drugs for concentration, finally converging on what sounds like n...
Saturday, August 2, 2025

Nicotine news--unintended consequences

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 Nicotine remains a big source of addiction, and (especially in connection with cigarette smoking) a major cause of premature death.  Here...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

The science and politics of vaping in the U.S

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 The Washington Post has the story: FDA lets Juul market vapes in the U.S. three years after trying to ban them Federal regulators first ann...
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Nicotine underlip: Zyn, snu to manage (and start) nicotine addiction

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Move over vapes: more ways to access nicotine without starting a fire: (I understand these are quite popular among our MBA students...)   Th...
Friday, January 17, 2025

FDA Proposes Reducing Nicotine to Nonaddictive Level in Cigarettes: I see 5 possible futures

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 Here's the FDA press release: FDA Proposes Significant Step Toward Reducing Nicotine to Minimally or Nonaddictive Level in Cigarettes a...
Monday, December 30, 2024

Should big Tobacco fund (and program) continuing medical education?

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 Should physicians learn about tobacco from the source? The Tobacco Industry Has No Business Funding Continuing Medical Education, by Robert...
Sunday, December 22, 2024

Regulating nicotine is a cat and mouse game

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 Attempts to regulate (and tax) cigarettes and related nicotine-addicting products are a cat and mouse game. Many laws regulate "tobacc...
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 ...