By Yaël Ossowski It often takes a long time for health policy influencers, advocates, and proponents to admit fault. When it is about topics such as diet fads, saturated fats,...
Introduction Smoking is one of the leading causes of illness and death in the world. More than eight million people die each year due to smoking, with almost 99% of...
Tobacco Harm Reduction Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of cancer and cancer deaths. About 3 in 10 cancer deaths are caused by cigarette smoking. Quitting tobacco use at...
In the backdrop of a very busy Congress, members of the U.S. House are pushing a bill that would eradicate entire categories of flavored nicotine products. This sweeping ban would...
Trump’s Vape Pod Flavor Ban is Just Another New Year’s Hangover Washington, D.C. – As millions of Americans awoke on New Year’s Day, we learned the Trump Administration and the...
Washington D.C – Our Senior Fellow Jeff Stier sat down with Vicki McKenna for a quick chat about #Vaping, her recent testimony for the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on...
Myths and Facts on Vaping: What policymakers should know DOWNLOAD THE POLICY NOTE HERE: Deutsch English Español Français Italiano Português By Yaël Ossowski and Bill Wirtz 19. September 2019 SUMMARY...
When there’s an outbreak of deaths or illnesses from injected street drugs, do public health authorities demand diabetics and doctors stop using syringes? Of course not. Yet a host of...
“Are we not to learn anything from the current THC hash oil acute lung illness situation?” asked Jeff Stier, a senior fellow and tobacco harm reduction advocate at the free market...
Some free-market advocates say they believe Trump is overreacting to the vaping and lung illness connection. “Trump needs to know the fact that adult smokers are switching en masse to...
Yaël Ossowski, deputy director of the Consumer Choice Center, said the Trump administration needs to follow the facts. “The fact is that the technological revolution that is happening today with vaping...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT:Yaël OssowskiDeputy DirectorConsumer Choice Centeryael@consumerchoicecenter.org Before Trump acts on vaping, someone please give him the facts Washington, D.C. – According to U.S. health secretary Alex Azar, President Trump convened a policy...
