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American Lung Association is a liar
posted by Carl V Phillips I was going to just outsource today’s post, but I could not let this one pass: a letter to the editor at a Pennsylvania mainstream media site, praising an editorial that...
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Don’t Be Fooled by the Canadian Lung Association
By Elaine Keller, with input from CASAA Board [Note: Carl will resume his series about useful truths next week. We have a few lies we want to cover first.] Good health advice is any instruction or set...
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Who leads the fight against banning e-cigarette sales to minors? Guess again:...
by Carl V. Phillips In the U.S., some state-level regulations to prohibit the sale of e-cigarettes to anyone under 18 years of age (the same age for legal purchases of cigarettes or smokeless tobacco)...
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Why do the American Cancer Society et al. oppose regulations to prevent kids...
by Carl V Phillips The previous post, which pointed out that the American Cancer Society (and, as noted in a comment and the update, the American Lung Association and American Heart Association) is...
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Siegel takes up the charge on ACS efforts to keep e-cigarettes in the hands...
by Carl V Phillips Most of you recall our two posts from about a month ago, analyzing the American Cancer Society’s efforts to block laws that would ban e-cigarette sales to minors. (At least I assume...
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Updates: FDA, ACS, and CASAA
by Carl V Phillips A few days ago, we reported about FDA CTP’s moves toward reducing the anti-THR lies in their public statements and otherwise shifting toward supporting the public interest. I missed...
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Um, folks, Mayo Clinic has *always* been an anti-THR liar
by Carl V Phillips I have lost count of how many posts, tweets, and even personal requests to comment I have seen about this Chicago Tribune blog post by the Mayo Clinic. That is not a recommended...
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American Lung Association is assigned the role of chief liar for ACS’s Smokeout
by Carl V Phillips The American Lung Association (ALA) may soon surpass the American Cancer Society (ACS) as the most dishonest anti-public-health charity in the country. It would be one thing if...
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What to do with tobacco taxes?
by Carl V Phillips This is tangential, but goes to some big-picture issue, and it is bugging me so much I want to complain about it. It also relates to those anti-THR liars at the American Lung...
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Anti-THR Liar of the Year, the American Lung Association, and Runner-Up, the...
Anti-THR liar of the year Runner-up (#2): American Cancer Society (ACS) Anti-THR Liar of the Year (#1): American Lung Association (ALA) While neither the most aggressive liar (that was the apparently...
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Follow-up on the worst anti-THR liars of 2013: WHO and ALA’s Harold Wimmer...
by Carl V Phillips The posts for the top liar countdown were all quite abbreviated, not attempting to lay out the full details of each indictment. This tended to let the offenders off the hook a bit,...
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