Jim McDonald
Smokers created vaping without any help from the tobacco industry or anti-smoking crusaders, and vapers have the right to keep innovating to help themselves. My goal is to provide clear, honest information about the challenges vaping faces from lawmakers, regulators, and brokers of disinformation. I recently joined the CASAA board, but my opinions aren’t necessarily CASAA’s, and vice versa. You can find me on Twitter @whycherrywhy
A company pursuing FDA drug approval for a therapeutic nicotine inhaler promotes false claims about Public Health England researchers.
A new study shows that daily vaping helps people quit smoking, even if they had no intention of quitting when they began using e-cigarettes.
A newly introduced U.S. House bill would give authority over synthetic nicotine products to the FDA Center for Tobacco Products.
AVAIL Vapor, once one of the largest vaping businesses in the U.S., has sold or closed more than 100 vape shops and its distribution outlet.
Robert Califf was expected to face many questions on vaping and tobacco in his Senate confirmation hearing, but the questions didn’t come.
More than two dozen vaping manufacturers have filed legal actions challenging the FDA’s denials of their products submitted for review.
A vaping manufacturer had asked the U.S. Supreme Court to grant a stay of its FDA marketing denial order while the order is reviewed.
Senate Democrats have removed a proposed tax on nicotine and vaping products from the current version of the Build Back Better Act.
FDA Center for Tobacco Products Director Mitch Zeller, awash in controversy over the agency’s e-cigarette regulation, will retire next April.
