Professor at the Tufts University School of Medicine. Views expressed here are my own and I am not speaking for the School.

Boston, MA
Joined April 2009
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American Lung Association Finds It "Appalling" that Nicotine Pouch Maker is Allowed to Tell the Truth tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com…
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Another Sham E-Cigarette Study is Retracted; Can We Trust Any of this Literature? tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com…
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The Nicotine-Free Generation Debate: Public Health, Harm Reduction, and Unintended Consequences A “Virtual Editorial Board” Event Presented by InsideSources Thursday, June 25, 2026 11:00 am Eastern Videostream here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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End of Year Thoughts: Why are So Many Anti-Tobacco Groups Attacking a Product with Few Acute Risks, But Saying Nothing About Truly Risky Tobacco Products? tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com…
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World Health Organization Explicitly Rejects Harm Reduction in Tobacco Control, Endangering Millions of Lives Worldwide tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com…
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Many Tobacco Control Organizations are Asserting that Quitting Smoking is Not Quitting Smoking if You Use E-Cigarettes to Quit tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com…
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American Lung Association Directs Youth to Complain about Seeing People Use Nicotine Pouches in Workplaces @LungAssociation tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com… Public health groups should not be manipulating youth into promoting these misguided policies for them.
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Misinformation from Anti-Vaping Groups is Causing Increasing False Beliefs among Policy Makers tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com… New survey from @ECigIntel shows that percentage of policy makers who correctly believe that smoking is more hazardous than vaping is decreasing, not increasing.
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New Data from New York State Show that Youth Smoking is at Its Lowest Level in Recorded History; Anti-Nicotine Groups Continue to Claim that Vaping is a Gateway to Smoking tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com…
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I literally had to fight two little kids to get this locker at the gym.
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Why is Dr. Glantz Calling a Letter from an Independent Public Health Practitioner an "Aggressive Lobbying Effort" by the Tobacco Industry? tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com…
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Prominent Anti-Vaping Advocate is Misrepresenting Scientific Evidence and Being Unnecessarily Divisive, Polarizing, and Disrespectful tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com…
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Boston area vapers: I am looking for someone to speak with me about smoking cessation to the second year medical students at Tufts Medical Center (in Chinatown) on Friday, October 10 from 8-9am. Let me know if you are available and willing to share your experience.
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This op-ed was published today at @InsideSourcesDC. In it, I tie the approval of this unethical study to a general disregard for the lives of smokers that has become prevalent due to an an obsession about vaping as the greatest threat to public health. dcjournal.com/fed-funded-stu…
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Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Decries Supposed Fast-Tracking of Safer Alternatives to Cigarettes But Says Nothing About FDA's Inaction on Real Cigarettes @TobaccoFreeKids tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com…
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