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Promote Health by Not Defending an E-Cigarette Ban

The Trump administration should no longer defend FDA&rsquo;s indefensible vaping ban. Harm reduction &mdash; opting for a product or activity that is not harmless but is better than the existing alternative &mdash; is a common and obvious strategy that we employ almost unthinkingly. For example, many drugs used for chemotherapy to treat cancer are highly toxic and cause a variety of serious side effects, but taking them is better than leaving the cancer untreated.<br />
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Regulations on indoor smoking to be relaxed

Smokers are breathing a sigh of relief, while nonsmokers will be gasping for air now that a draft amendment to the Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act has scrapped plans to ban smoking lounges in hotels, restaurants, bars, nightclubs, and cigar lounges, health officials announced on Tuesday. TAIPEI (Taiwan News) —

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Growing Lung Cancer Toll On Non-Smoking Women

Growing Lung Cancer Toll On Non-Smoking Women A Mystery<br />
Doctors are seeking to unravel the mystery as to why lung cancer is claiming victims who have never smoked in their lives, including a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who is not letting the disease slow her down.

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FDA Commissioner Gottlieb’s real challenge

More than a month after his confirmation hearing, Congress finally voted to confirm Trump&rsquo;s nominee for Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commission. While Dr. Scott Gottlieb&rsquo;s ties to the pharmaceutical industry provoked concern among Democrats, his long history of working within government health agencies and his relatively moderate aspirations for reforming the agency he now helms, won over a majority of Senators.&nbsp;

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Elderly people should smoke POT to prevent memory

Cannabis could help prevent memory loss in the elderly, a new study has found.<br />
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Researchers in Germany, who are set to begin human trials later this year, say the drug may even help delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease by slowing the brain’s natural ageing process.<br />
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‘We’re becoming a tech company’

The &pound;99 billion cigarette giant behind Lucky Strike is trying to be more like Apple<br />
&quot;We are becoming a tech company,&quot; British American Tobacco (BAT)’s Dr. David O&rsquo;Reilly told Business Insider during a recent tour of the company’s research and development (R&amp;D) headquarters in Southampton, England.

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Rody too busy to sign anti-smoking ban " Ubial

President Duterte is just too busy and still cannot sign an executive order declaring a nationwide ban on smoking.<br />
Health Secretary Paulyn Ubial said the tight schedule of the President is the only reason for the delay in the signing of the EO banning smoking in public places all over the country.&nbsp;

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"You will eat want we tell you to eat"

&nbsp;&quot;You will eat want we tell you to eat&quot; – fussbucketry on our TVs<br />
The clip starts with one person presenting how standardised packaging for &quot;junk food&quot; would look – this is accompanied by &quot;ewwww&quot; sounds from the others round the table as they agree they’d never eat something packaged like that. &quot;But I wouldn’t eat it anyway&quot; giggles one of the participants.

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US village votes to challenge FDA

The Village of Hartland, Wisconsin, USA, is getting ready to bring the vapor battle to the U.S. capital. Leaders of the small village of 9,200 residents voted this evening to take on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for not coordinating with local governments before the regulatory agency enacted it&rsquo;s deeming regulations for vapor products. If the FDA admits it failed to coordinate with Hartland prior to enacting the deeming rule, those regulations would become unconstitutional.<br />
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