Health Care
Vaping and the public health
Robert Goldberg uses a Real Clear Policy column to challenge the “war on vaping.” Will the government hamstring what is potentially the most important public health innovation of the 21st…
Smoking cessation
Health Care
UK, U.S. move in opposite directions on e-cigarettes
Elizabeth Harrington of the Washington Free Beacon documents the United Kingdom’s response to recent research involving e-cigarettes. While the federal government considers increased regulation for electronic cigarettes, the United Kingdom…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
England Didn’t Win the World Cup, but It’s Number 1 in Vaping
Matt Ridley explains how it happened at the Rational Optimist: More people use ecigarettes in the UK than in any other European country. It’s more officially encouraged than in the…
Health Care
Obamacare to smokers: Light up!
Ali Meyer of the Washington Free Beacon documents another downside of the federal Affordable Care Act. The Affordable Care Act allowed health insurance plans to charge smokers up to 50…
Liberty
Re: New Jersey Kills E-Cig tax
My colleague Sarah Curry notes in her blog post below that New Jersey Democrats, a state that rarely sees a tax it doesn’t like, had the good sense to say…
Liberty
It’s Free?
Headline: NC offers free nicotine replacement therapy to smokers who want to quit Copy: Tobacco users are eligible to receive up to eight weeks of free nicotine replacement therapy, including…
Liberty
When you quit smoking, you get fat
Hence the problem as funding for anti-smoking programs is diverted to anti-obesity programs. Not unrelated update: The greenway network Triad boosters envision is very expensive and will take years to…
Liberty
Casual smokers pay higher cigarette taxes
Authors of a new paper on cigarette excise taxes find that people who smoke more — the authors call them “consumers who undertake more price search” — pay less of…
Liberty
And anti-tax groups hope Obama will be a role model
Hope equals change; per the AP: Anti-smoking groups hope Obama will be role model WASHINGTON ? Of all the things President-elect Barack Obama needs right now, one of them surely…
Liberty
Latest dispatches from the Gov. Trail
? New PPP survey gives Beverly Perdue a 10-point lead over Richard Moore, a smaller gap than in previous polls. ? The Health & Wellness Trust Fund, chaired by Perdue,…
Liberty
Cigarette taxes
Look closely at the graph below showing cigarette usage and taxes in Washington State. Some would have you believe that the higher cigarette taxes are leading people to stop smoking.…