Cliff Douglas

The Updated Meta-Analysis of E-Cigs & Health Outcomes: Still Critically Flawed A highly-criticized meta-analysis of e-cigs &health outcomes was just updated. Not only does it still perpetuate critical flaws in the underlying studies, but it's interpreted with double-standards.

This updated but also greatly rehashed study has been debunked here:

Arielle Selya, arielleselyaphd.substack.com/p/the-update...
With additional comments:
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If you respond, friend, please make it purely substantive and not ad hominem.

Denmark Rejects Trump’s Plan to Send Hospital Boat to Greenland

While he’s at it, how about sending some hospital boats to cities in need right here at home?

Denmark Rejects Trump’s Plan to Send Hospital Boat to Greenland www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/u...

How $40-a-Pack Cigarettes Pushed Australians to the Black Market

The @nytimes spotlights the disastrous and widespread illicit trade for cigarettes in Australia: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/w.... Australia is harming health by reducing access to safer alternatives, keeping more people smoking, and by misusing taxation to drive many of its citizens to more smoking.

England, After the Smoke Cigarettes are receding, but the air remains heavy with deeper dilemmas: pleasure, risk, and control.

The thoughtful commentator Claudio Teixeira has shared his latest observations in "England, After the Smoke," an analysis of falling smoking rates in that country, where #vaping has helped reduce lethal combustible tobacco use. I was honored to contribute. www.disobedientmargins.com/p/england-af...

This forecast of plummeting smoking rates has huge meaning for the health & well-being of millions in our society. Government must help - while the people choose. clivebates.substack.com/p/the-future...

I have 2 goals: Reduce preventable DEATHS and reduce teen nicotine USE. I know these goals carry different moral weight (death is final; use changes). But these are my goals.

I share CDC, NIH and peer-reviewed evidence to achieve that. e.g., Here is what's ACTUALLY happening in the USA:

A new study from an expert team of researchers has found that "people who used ENDS products [i.e., nicotine vapes/e-cigarettes] specifically to quit smoking were more likely to achieve smoking abstinence." www.tobaccoinduceddiseases.org/Cigarette-sm...

Walgreens resumes e-cigarette sales nationwide Move marks policy reversal as retailer adds FDA-authorized vaping products to shelves, Bloomberg reports

The return of vapes (e-cigarettes) to 6,000 @Walgreens stores for the first time since 2019 is a welcome move, especially with growing evidence that nicotine vaping is more effective than nicotine medications in helping adults quit smoking. Progress!
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