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Clinic demonstrations, podcasts, and TV shows: Hristio Boytchev reveals how an ambitious deal between a leading medical education provider and the tobacco industry collapsed this week The medical education provider Medscape has bowed to pressure and agreed to permanently remove a series of accredited medical education courses on smoking cessation funded by the tobacco industry giant Philip Morris International (PMI), The BMJ and The Examination have found. Medscape has acknowledged its “misjud...

A leading medical information company has been urged to cancel a series of new education courses on smoking cessation funded by the tobacco industry giant Philip Morris International (PMI). Physicians and academics have rounded on Medscape for partnering with PMI on five courses launched in the past few months, and they have called for stricter oversight by certification bodies. Anna Gilmore, professor of public health and director of the Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath,...

Thanks to tendentiously sloppy research, most Americans think vaping is just as dangerous as smoking. That’s not true.

The World Journal of Oncology recently retracted a February 2022 article claiming that nicotine vapers face about the same cancer risk as cigarette smokers.

The rate of youth use of traditional cigarettes edged down again during 2022, while e-cigarette use went up slightly, according to the latest version of a national report on alcohol,

Studies that link vaping to disease without considering the timing of diagnoses seems to reflect a bias in the peer review process.

It's technologically infeasible. It's also pointless. Fears about TikTok are overblown, and any real threats can be mitigated by way less drastic measures.

The agency's ban on a popular e-cigarette defies logic.

British American Tobacco Plc is in the early stages of a transformation shift from traditional cigarettes to potentially reduced-risk tobacco and nicotine products.Already holding a U.S. leadership role in electronic