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Stanton Glantz @profglantz.com · 1d

This is certainly a good thing for the multinational tobacco companies that invented ecigs in the 1990s (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27852893/). Not so good for the people who are addicted to them (publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...).

Stanton Glantz @profglantz.com · 1d

The question is: "De e-cigs actually reduce harm?" The answer is NO even if you only consider adults. Why? They don't help people quit in the real word and instead promote dual use, which is more dangerous than smoking.

I'm still waiting for you to engage the actual evidence as it exists today.

Charles A. Gardner, PhD @chancethegardener.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think #HarmReduction is an abstract idea.

Charles A. Gardner, PhD @chancethegardener.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think #HarmReduction is an abstract idea.

Stanton Glantz @profglantz.com · 1d

Did you actually carefully read the statement and the references? What are the specific errors? It seems to me that you selectively quote (mostly old) things that support your predetermined position and ignore or discount the more recent evidence that does not support your position.

Charles A. Gardner, PhD @chancethegardener.bsky.social · 1d

I see that, but I don't believe an IPA statement is oracular omniscient truth. Seven years in tobacco control have taught me to question everything.

At a minimum, we must both admit that well-meaning experts now disagree. And I KNOW how ironic that is: Claiming "experts disagree..."

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Charles A. Gardner, PhD @chancethegardener.bsky.social · 1d

I see that, but I don't believe an IPA statement is oracular omniscient truth. Seven years in tobacco control have taught me to question everything.

At a minimum, we must both admit that well-meaning experts now disagree. And I KNOW how ironic that is: Claiming "experts disagree..."

Stanton Glantz @profglantz.com · 1d

The issue is not supporting harm reduction as an abstract idea, but whether e-cigs reduce harm. The new IPA statement concludes, "e-cigarettes are not an effective harm reduction strategy for adults and pose a serious risk to nicotine-naïve youth." Details at publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...

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Stanton Glantz @profglantz.com · 1d

International Pediatric Association publishes position paper concluding that “e-cigarettes are not an effective harm reduction strategy for adults and pose a serious risk to nicotine naïve youth”

On October 10, 2025, the International Pediatric Association (IPA) published a landmark position…

International Pediatric Association publishes position paper concluding that “e-cigarettes are not an effective harm reduction strategy for adults and pose a serious risk to nicotine naïve youth”

On October 10, 2025, the International Pediatric Association (IPA) published a landmark position paper, “E-Cigarettes and the Nicotine Epidemic: Statement From the International Pediatric Association,” in Pediatrics, the international peer-reviewed journal published by the American Academy of Pediatrics. The paper concluded, “In contrast to early hopes and assumptions, e-cigarettes are not an effective harm reduction strategy for adults and pose a serious risk to nicotine-naive youth.”

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Stanton Glantz @profglantz.com · 3d

This argument is a distraction. As of Oct 2023 there were 11 epi studies of ecigs and heart disease (not counting the retracted paper) that show a statistically significant increase in risk (OR 1.24; 95% CI 1.05-1.46). And lots of clinical and biology studies on why. profglantz.com/2023/05/05/t...

Stanton Glantz @profglantz.com · 4d

Yes, a campaign by ecig advocates did succeed in getting one of my papers retracted. For details on that in the context of ongoing industry efforts to attack my work and counter science generally, see the oral history UC published on me: digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/267781 (PDF pages 248-268).

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Stanton Glantz @profglantz.com · 8d

This comment ignores the fact that studies that follow the same kids forward in time (longitudinal studies) consistently find a gateway effect. See profglantz.com/2025/08/26/t... If ecigs were just substituting for cigs, youth ecigs would not have increased way more than smoking dropped.

Stanton Glantz @profglantz.com · 8d

FDA Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee should recommend against FDA allowing Philip Morris Products continuing to make misleading reduced risk claims about IQOS

FDA has scheduled a virtual meeting of its Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC) meeting for October 7,…

FDA Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee should recommend against FDA allowing Philip Morris Products continuing to make misleading reduced risk claims about IQOS

FDA has scheduled a virtual meeting of its Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC) meeting for October 7, 2025, to discuss the modified risk tobacco product (MRTP) renewal applications submitted by Philip Morris Products S.A. for several IQOS heated tobacco products that is happening despite the government shutdown. (Participants can attend via a live webcast.) This meeting is required by law if FDA is to move forward on allowing Philip Morris to continue to make reduced exposure claims about IQOS.

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 22d

Which nations today forbid & punish political satire besides Afghanistan, N Korea, Myanmar & USA?

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Stanton Glantz @profglantz.com · 25d

FDA’s product standard setting a maximum level of nicotine should be expanded to all tobacco products including e-cigs and nicotine pouches

My colleagues at UCSF and Stanford and I have submitted this public comment to the FDA on its prposed nicotine standard urging that the standard be extended…

FDA’s product standard setting a maximum level of nicotine should be expanded to all tobacco products including e-cigs and nicotine pouches

My colleagues at UCSF and Stanford and I have submitted this public comment to the FDA on its prposed nicotine standard urging that the standard be extended to all tobacco products (PDF). The regulations.gov Comment Tracking Number: mfj-v5cz-15yf. The scope of FDA’s proposed tobacco product standard setting a maximum level of nicotine in tobacco products should be expanded to include all nicotine delivery products that are not authorized by the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research for cessation, including, but not limited to, e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches…

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Stanton Glantz @profglantz.com · 26d

FDA setting a maximum level of nicotine in tobacco products without exceptions for HTP and waterpipe will improve health

My colleagues at UCSF and Stanford and I have submitted this public comment to the FDA supporting a product standard limiting nicotine in tobacco products and opposing…

FDA setting a maximum level of nicotine in tobacco products without exceptions for HTP and waterpipe will improve health

My colleagues at UCSF and Stanford and I have submitted this public comment to the FDA supporting a product standard limiting nicotine in tobacco products and opposing exceptions for heated tobacco products and waterpipe (PDF). The Comment Tracking Number in regulations.gov is mfj-vc5x-sbgb .FDA’s proposed tobacco product standard setting a maximum level of nicotine in tobacco products will help prevent youth from becoming addicted to conventional cigarettes, help adult smokers quit, and will reduce tobacco-related diseases and deaths…

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Getting it Right from the Start @getitrightonmj.bsky.social · Sep 11

2/#AB564 = $180M cut annually & 25% reduction in required long-term funding. With federal help shrinking, CA can’t afford to gut prevention & childcare. The real drivers of the illicit market (i.e. overproduction) aren't addressed. @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social must veto!

Read FS: bit.ly/3IheHxN

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Stanton Glantz @profglantz.com · Sep 9

Archived copy of Tobaccoscam website and ads on smokefree hospitality is available

In 2002 I developed an educational campaign called Tobacco Scam designed to counter tobacco industry propaganda directed at restaurants and to expose the industry’s cooptation of the state and national restaurant…

Archived copy of Tobaccoscam website and ads on smokefree hospitality is available

In 2002 I developed an educational campaign called Tobacco Scam designed to counter tobacco industry propaganda directed at restaurants and to expose the industry’s cooptation of the state and national restaurant associations. It was called “Tobacco Scam” because it highlighted how the tobacco companies were scamming restaurants and bars into opposing smokefree laws based on bogus claims that such laws were bad for business and convincing them to install expensive ventilation systems that did not actually eliminate secondhand smoke.

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Stanton Glantz @profglantz.com · Sep 8

Inhaled cannabis associated with increased risk of asthma and COPD independent of tobacco smoking

Answering the question of whether inhaling cannabis increases the risks of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has been complicated by the fact that in the past almost all cannabis…

Inhaled cannabis associated with increased risk of asthma and COPD independent of tobacco smoking

Answering the question of whether inhaling cannabis increases the risks of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has been complicated by the fact that in the past almost all cannabis smokers also smoked tobacco, so it was difficult to determine whether the observed associations between smoking cannabis and these diseases was really due to their tobacco use (confounding…

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Stanton Glantz @profglantz.com · Sep 4

Archival copies of Smokefree Movies and Smokefree Media websites are available

I ran the Smokefree Movies campaign from 2001 through my retirement from UCSF in 2020. This education/advocacy campaign put pressure on the motion picture industry to stop promoting tobacco to young audiences through…

Archival copies of Smokefree Movies and Smokefree Media websites are available

I ran the Smokefree Movies campaign from 2001 through my retirement from UCSF in 2020. This education/advocacy campaign put pressure on the motion picture industry to stop promoting tobacco to young audiences through specific policy changes. We advocated for these policies though paid advertising in the trade and general press and the Smokefree Movies website. We website also used data collected by Breathe California to report which films did and did not have smoking every week and who was responsible for the smoking.

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Stanton Glantz @profglantz.com · Sep 2

In UK 7 times more 16-17 year olds smoking than if there had been no e-cigs

Jessica Mongilio and colleagues just published an innovative approach to assessing the association between e-cigarette use and smoking, the so-called gateway effect, that provides insights between the link between e-cigs…

In UK 7 times more 16-17 year olds smoking than if there had been no e-cigs

Jessica Mongilio and colleagues just published an innovative approach to assessing the association between e-cigarette use and smoking, the so-called gateway effect, that provides insights between the link between e-cigs and smoking and how it relates to changes in youth smoking prevalence over time. In their new paper "Risk of adolescent cigarette use in three UK birth cohorts before and after e-cigarettes…

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Stanton Glantz @profglantz.com · Aug 28

You have ignored the information in the papers I sent you about WHO is vaping and that ecigs expanded the epidemic.

Until you stop just repeating your (incomplete) arguments and engage those details it is not worth continuing this conversation.

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Charles A. Gardner, PhD @chancethegardener.bsky.social · Aug 27

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There are 3 ways to portray these changes:

DISHONEST: Smoking dropped, BUT vaping increased
ACCURATE: Smoking dropped in association with
increased vaping
PLAUSIBLE: Smoking dropped BECAUSE vaping increased

The 1st denies product substitution is plausible.

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Stanton Glantz @profglantz.com · Aug 26

But, thanks to ecigs dramatically increasing teen nicotine use, total nicotine use (cigs plus ecigs) is still above where it would have been absent ecigs.

Charles A. Gardner, PhD @chancethegardener.bsky.social · Aug 26

Teen smoking has dropped to a 50-year low, near nil.
monitoringthefuture.org/data/bx-by/d...
Teen use of ANY nicotine product has dropped to a 25-year low.
www.cdc.gov/media/releas...
Teen nicotine vaping dropped 70% over the past 5 years to a 10-year low.
www.cdc.gov/media/releas...

All GOOD news.

Prevalence/Trends

Substance Use Prevalence and Trends among 8th, 10th, and 12th Graders

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Charles A. Gardner, PhD @chancethegardener.bsky.social · Aug 26

Teen smoking has dropped to a 50-year low, near nil.
monitoringthefuture.org/data/bx-by/d...
Teen use of ANY nicotine product has dropped to a 25-year low.
www.cdc.gov/media/releas...
Teen nicotine vaping dropped 70% over the past 5 years to a 10-year low.
www.cdc.gov/media/releas...

All GOOD news.

Prevalence/Trends

Substance Use Prevalence and Trends among 8th, 10th, and 12th Graders

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Stanton Glantz @profglantz.com · Aug 26

The evidence for the ecig gateway to smoking keeps piling up; ecig advocates continue to nitpick

Su Golder and colleagues paper "Vaping and harm in young people: umbrella review" sums up the large existing literature on e-cigarettes' effects on youth, defined as people under 25. In contrast to…

The evidence for the ecig gateway to smoking keeps piling up; ecig advocates continue to nitpick

Su Golder and colleagues paper "Vaping and harm in young people: umbrella review" sums up the large existing literature on e-cigarettes' effects on youth, defined as people under 25. In contrast to systematic reviews which find and draw conclusions based on summing up individual studies, this umbrella review is finds and sums up all the systematic reviews on a given topic available as of November 2024.

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Stanton Glantz @profglantz.com · Aug 26

Did you read the papers I linked to? They answer your question.

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Stanton Glantz @profglantz.com · Aug 25

The ecig gateway to smoking has two doors, another detail ecig advocates ignore. profglantz.com/2022/01/03/t...

The e-cig gateway has two doors

When people talk about the “gateway effect” of e-cigarettes, they are usually referring to the first gateway: the fact that never-smoking kids who initiate nicotine use with e-cigarette…

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Stanton Glantz @profglantz.com · Aug 25

This is a great example of cherry picking data to give a misleading picture. Few kids are daily e-cig users or smokers. Setting a daily use standard radically understates the level of addiction. As ecigs have got more addictive, however, days used has increased. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36342713/

Stanton Glantz @profglantz.com · Aug 25

Our public comment supporting creation of Calif Unflavored Tobacco List with some suggestions for improvements

I previously suggested people provide public comments supporting the California Attorney General's procedures to create an Unflavored Tobacco Products List to facilitate implementation…

Our public comment supporting creation of Calif Unflavored Tobacco List with some suggestions for improvements

I previously suggested people provide public comments supporting the California Attorney General's procedures to create an Unflavored Tobacco Products List to facilitate implementation and enforcement of California's flavored tobacco product ban and indicated our preliminary ideas. Here is final submitted public comment (PDF): California’s Unflavored Tobacco List and its implementing regulations close gaps in federal and state regulation of flavored tobacco products…

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Stanton Glantz @profglantz.com · Aug 25

By whom, specifically?

Yes, gateway and common liability are separate things. Lots of evidence gateway is real and common liability cannot explain all youth initiation. The papers I cited (separately) go into detail on both issues.

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Stanton Glantz @profglantz.com · Aug 25

Later research, based on more data (through 2018) found that decline in current cig smoking slowed in 2014 from -0.75 to -0.26 %/year pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33272598/. And direct observation of individuals shows kids who vape more likely to smoke pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40829950/

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