When you see the word “vaper,” what do you think? In the latest VIDA News SPOTLIGHT, Senior Correspondent Dom Garrett travels across the northern United States to speak with the consumers and small business owners to gain a deeper understanding of how...
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association concludes that flavors are indeed associated with increased smoking cessation yet not with increased youth smoking initiation. The study’s author, Dr. Abigail Friedman of the Yale School of...
In this excerpt from VIDA News Live, Senior Correspondent Dom Garrett sits down with Chim Ngoma. Chim is a social scientist, tobacco harm reduction advocate, and Project Manager for THR Malawi – an information dissemination project on Tobacco Harm Reduction and...
Ray Yeates is a father and a grandfather. He is a retired mechanic but still defines himself as a guy who likes to tinker around and fix things. For the last five years, Ray has lived with his partner Ruthie. Ray describes Ruthie as a partner, friend, and soul-mate....
In this VIDA News Spotlight, we travel to Medellin, Colombia where the leaders of 11 consumer advocacy groups across Latin America and Spain gathered to form ARDT Iberoamérica or the Alliance to Reduce the Harm from Smoking. While respected experts, medical journals...
Professor Stanton Glantz of UC San Francisco finds himself on the wrong side of the news again this spring as another group is now pushing to retract a 2018 study from the peer-reviewed “Pediatrics” medical journal. The study in question pulls from the now-debunked...
Due to the growing COVID-19 pandemic, the FDA asked Judge Paul Grimm of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Counsel to allow them to extend the Premarket Tobacco Product Application (PMTA) deadline for nicotine vapor products by 120 days....
The official title of the “flavor ban” that passed the US House of Representatives is HR 2339 or the Protecting American Lungs and Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act of 2020. This act revises requirements related to the safety, sale, and...
