Stanton A. Glantz
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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).
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.
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 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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by Simon Chapman — Reposted by: Stanton A. Glantz
Which nations today forbid & punish political satire besides Afghanistan, N Korea, Myanmar & USA?
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…
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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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…
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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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
Read FS: bit.ly/3IheHxN
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…
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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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…
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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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…
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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by Stanton A. Glantz — Reposted by: Mike Daube
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…
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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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.
Until you stop just repeating your (incomplete) arguments and engage those details it is not worth continuing this conversation.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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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…
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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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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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/
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…
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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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.
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.
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/
No. Ecig advocates claim "common liability," but only some of the kids who start nicotine addiction with ecigs have characteristics similar to those who started with cigs: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33272598/. This argument is like when cig companies said lung cancer and smoking caused by same genes.
This new paper sums up a huge number of studies that consistently show that kids who start with ecigs are more likely to start smoking (about three times): pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40829950/ And ecigs carry almost as much disease risk as smoking: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38411454/
Nicotine use in adolescence still predicts established use later.
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Yes, back in the day, any youth initiation of cigarette smoking was highly predictive of later regular smoking, but those days are gone. How do you think we got to <1% of 12th graders being daily cigarette smokers?
Past 30 day smoking (nicotine) predict established smoking in young adulthood (nicotine addiction tion).
The evidence for a gateway effect is overwhelming There was just another big review published in Tobacco Control. ALL the available longitudinal studies show kids who start nicotine with ecigs are more likely to progress to cigs.
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Stan, as you immediately moved on from the topic of this discussion, I assume you accept that the evidence does not support the claim that trying an ecig causes a young person to be more likely to start smoking cigarettes. Also, "any use in the past 30 days" is not nicotine addiction.
What Foulds and the other ecig advocates ignore is that the increase in ecig use was way bigger than the drop in smoking. So ecigs are expanding youth nicotine addiction … by a lot.
