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The Weak, Unconvincing Case Against Vaping Has our collective concern over teen vaping led us to ignore the lives of millions and millions of smokers? JOSE LUIS MAGANA/AFP/Getty Images In April 1994, the heads of the biggest tobacco companies testified before Congress that cigarettes weren’t addictive. A month later, across the country, a box marked “confidential” arrived for Dr. Stanton Glantz, a longtime foe of Big Tobacco and a professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco. The sender signed his name “Mr. Butts,” an allusion to a Doonesbury character...

Ireland set the precedent for smoke-free work places. By Matthew Skwiat, Contributing Editor This past March 29 marked the 10-year anniversary of the smoking ban in Ireland, a milestone that few thought they would see. In 2004, a law banned smoking in the workplace that extended to pubs and restaurants. At the time the Vintners Federation of Ireland said the law was “unnecessary, unworkable, and unjustified.” Since then, the image of an Ireland filled with pints, music, and smoke is no more thanks to the success of the law. Health ministry studies show 97% adher...

>> norman siegel, go ahead. i know you're chomping at the bit to get in here. >> right. i respect dr. glantz, but i don't agree with him. the studies come after. with regard to the advertising issue, there is serious and substantial first amendment issues. and the smoking situation and the problem with e-cigarettes whoever called it e-cigarettes has the name associated with cigarettes, but it's very different. there's no dispute. we don't know what the benefits and risks of e-cigarettes are, but there's no dispute out there as far as i can tell that it's less dangerous than a traditional cigar...

>> gentlemen, thank you both very much. dr. glantz, thank you. mr. siegel, thank you. i'll have more to say on this subject at the oend oend of e program. up next, those with 15 minutes of fame in 2013. this is "hardball," the place for politics. hey there, i just got my bill, and i see that it includes my fico® credit score. yup, you get it free each month to help you avoid surprises with your credit. good. i hate surprises. surprise! at discover, we treat you like you'd treat you. get the it card and see your fico® credit score.

States, in 2011 on an e-cigarette case said that the fda produced no evidence that e-cigarettes were harmful to anyone. and moreover the fda under the tobacco act could, in fact, by regulation mitigate and even extinguish any public health concerns. the problem, for example, new york on the legislation, what they did is wherever in the smoke free air act the word cigarette appeared, they inserted and e-cigarettes. the bottom line is where the floor is you cannot equate e-cigarettes with cigarettes. it's something different. and finally the constitution says in the 14th amendment that the gover...