Stanton Glantz
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Glantz retired from the University of California San Francisco faculty in 2020 after 45 years on the faculty and founding the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education. Learn more at https://profglantz.com/about. .. more
Glantz retired from the University of California San Francisco faculty in 2020 after 45 years on the faculty and founding the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education. Learn more at https://profglantz.com/about.
Stanton Arnold Glantz is an American professor, author, and tobacco control activist. Glantz is a faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine, where he is a Professor of Medicine (retired) in the Division of Cardiology, the American Legacy Foundation Distinguished Professor of Tobacco Control, and former director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education. Glantz's research focused on the health effects of tobacco smoking. .. more
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American Thoracic Society | Tear Gas and Pepper Spray Pose Serious…
Even brief exposure can trigger lung injury, infections, and long-term breathing problems in the public.
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Kudos to the American Thoracic Society @atscommunity.bsky.social for speaking out !
Tear Gas and Pepper Spray Pose Serious Respiratory Risks, ATS Warns
Kudos to the American Thoracic Society @atscommunity.bsky.social for speaking out !
Tear Gas and Pepper Spray Pose Serious Respiratory Risks, ATS Warns
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RFK Jr strongly endorses tobacco industry harm reduction argument for ecigs and nicotine pouches
In a video interview circulated by Danny Gillis owner of SevierVapor and Executive Director Tennessee Smoke Free Association, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr strongly endorses e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches for "harm reduction." He also cites industry arguments that nicotine helps people with Alzheimer's disease and dimentia (at 50 seconds in the video). And, of course, the video ignores the devastating effects these products on kids.
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RFK Jr strongly endorses tobacco industry harm reduction argument for ecigs and nicotine pouches
In a video interview circulated by Danny Gillis owner of SevierVapor and Executive Director Tennessee Smoke Free Association, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr strongly endorses…
In a video interview circulated by Danny Gillis owner of SevierVapor and Executive Director Tennessee Smoke Free Association, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr strongly endorses…
FDA should not authorize marketing flavored ZYN a modified risk claim because they will harm youth
My colleagues at UCSF and Stanford have submitted this public comment to FDA opposing its approval of Swedish Match (owned by Philip Morris International) claim that ZYN is less dangerous because of particular adverse effects on youth (PDF). The TPSAC tracking number is mk4-kp68-wmg2 and the general docket tracking number is mk5-q1p5-yauh on Regulations.gov. FDA should not authorize the marketing of 20 flavored ZYN nicotine pouches with the modified risk claim, “Using ZYN instead of cigarettes puts you at a lower risk of mouth cancer, heart disease, lung cancer, stroke, emphysema, and chronic bronchitis”
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FDA should not authorize marketing flavored ZYN a modified risk claim because they will harm youth
The gateway has two doors in England, too
With some notable exceptions. e-cigarettes have been embraced by British tobacco control advocates and public health authorities more enthusiastically than anywhere else in the world, including authorities at Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) and University College London (UCL). Now, Emily Banks, Andrew Bush, Charlotta Pisinger, and Sam Egger have published Signs of increased smoking and vaping among young people in UK…
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The gateway has two doors in England, too
With some notable exceptions. e-cigarettes have been embraced by British tobacco control advocates and public health authorities more enthusiastically than anywhere else in the world, including authorities at Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) and…
With some notable exceptions. e-cigarettes have been embraced by British tobacco control advocates and public health authorities more enthusiastically than anywhere else in the world, including authorities at Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) and…
FDA should not authorize marketing ZYN nicotine pouches as having lower risk because the claim is likely to be misinterpreted to mean ZYN has been approved by FDA for cessation and consumers do not understand that they need to switch completely to get the purported benefits
My colleagues at UCSF and Stanford have submitted this public comment to FDA opposing its approval of Swedish Match (owned by Philip Morris International) claim that ZYN is less dangerous because it will be misunderstood as saying FDA endorsed ZYN (PDF). The TPSAC tracking number is mk4-kxvh-7j9n and the general docket tracking number is mk5-q1p5-yauh on Regulations.gov. FDA should not authorize the marketing of 20 flavored ZYN nicotine pouches with the modified risk claim, “Using ZYN instead of cigarettes puts you at a lower risk of mouth cancer, heart disease, lung cancer, stroke, emphysema, and chronic bronchitis”
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FDA should not authorize marketing ZYN nicotine pouches as having lower risk because the claim is likely to be misinterpreted to mean ZYN has been approved by FDA for cessation and consumers do not understand that they need to switch completely to get the purported benefits
My colleagues at UCSF…
My colleagues at UCSF…
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FDA should not authorize marketing flavored ZYN nicotine pouches as modified risk products because Swedish Match failed to provide evidence specific to ZYN demonstrating that they will benefit the health of the population, including youth
My colleagues at UCSF and Stanford have submitted this public comment to FDA opposing its approval of Swedish Match (owned by Philip Morris International) claim that ZYN is less dangerous (PDF). The TPSAC tracking number is mk4-k6rg-rvku and the general docket tracking number is mk5-q1p5-yauh on Regulations.gov. Here is the comment: FDA’s should not authorize the marketing of 20 flavored ZYN nicotine pouches with the modified risk claim, “Using ZYN instead of cigarettes puts you at a lower risk of mouth cancer, heart disease, lung cancer, stroke, emphysema, and chronic bronchitis”
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FDA should not authorize marketing flavored ZYN nicotine pouches as modified risk products because Swedish Match failed to provide evidence specific to ZYN demonstrating that they will benefit the health of the population, including youth
My colleagues at UCSF and Stanford have submitted this…
My colleagues at UCSF and Stanford have submitted this…
HTP attract youth, act as a gateway to cigarettes, and keep adults smoking
The cigarette companies have introduced several generations of heated tobacco products (HTP) going back to the 1960s in the hope that generating the nicotine aerosol the consumer inhales by heating rather than burning the tobacco would lower risk by avoiding the toxic combustion products created by burning tobacco. None of these earlier products were successful in the marketplace. Philip Morris International's introduction of…
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HTP attract youth, act as a gateway to cigarettes, and keep adults smoking
Stanton Glantz
@profglantz.com
· Dec 17
Literally NO ONE claims nicotine vapes "instantly convert" people who smoke into dual users. My own completely unscientific social media surveys of adult ex-smokers who quit by vaping show that clearly. WE know it.
NOTE: No one in history EVER "quit by accident with an NRT or varenicline.
NOTE: No one in history EVER "quit by accident with an NRT or varenicline.
Readers should not rely on “completely unscientific surveys. “
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Literally NO ONE claims nicotine vapes "instantly convert" people who smoke into dual users. My own completely unscientific social media surveys of adult ex-smokers who quit by vaping show that clearly. WE know it.
NOTE: No one in history EVER "quit by accident with an NRT or varenicline.
NOTE: No one in history EVER "quit by accident with an NRT or varenicline.
Stanton Glantz
@profglantz.com
· Dec 16
People had that same concern with nicotine patches and gum. Today, however, mainstream tobacco control accepts the fact that some people take time to transition.
As you know, dual use is:
- smokers who sometimes try a vape
- smokers "on the journey to quit"
- vapers who sometimes have a cig
As you know, dual use is:
- smokers who sometimes try a vape
- smokers "on the journey to quit"
- vapers who sometimes have a cig
The post I put up
Presented data a year after the quit attempt. More smokers given ecigs were dual users than quitters. The journey leaves them worse off.
Presented data a year after the quit attempt. More smokers given ecigs were dual users than quitters. The journey leaves them worse off.
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People had that same concern with nicotine patches and gum. Today, however, mainstream tobacco control accepts the fact that some people take time to transition.
As you know, dual use is:
- smokers who sometimes try a vape
- smokers "on the journey to quit"
- vapers who sometimes have a cig
As you know, dual use is:
- smokers who sometimes try a vape
- smokers "on the journey to quit"
- vapers who sometimes have a cig
Stanton Glantz
@profglantz.com
· Dec 16
New paper by Hajek group presents misleading incomplete results about dual use when using e-cigs as cessation aid
One concern about giving smokers e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation aid is that doing so instantly converts them into dual users (smoking both cigarettes and e-cigarettes), which adds the risks of e-cigarette use to cigarette use. Peter Hajek’s group just published Patterns of e-Cigarette Use and Smoking Cessation Outcomes: Secondary Analysis of a Large Randomised Controlled Trial to Inform Clinical Advice…
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New paper by Hajek group presents misleading incomplete results about dual use when using e-cigs as cessation aid
One concern about giving smokers e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation aid is that doing so instantly converts them into dual users (smoking both cigarettes and e-cigarettes), which adds…
One concern about giving smokers e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation aid is that doing so instantly converts them into dual users (smoking both cigarettes and e-cigarettes), which adds…
Stanton Glantz
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· Dec 7
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Consult to Juul Labs on nicotine vapor for tobacco harm minimization.
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“Largely independent” is not “independent”. What were the dependencies? (The link didn’t work.)
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Stanton Glantz
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· Dec 4
Yes, Robert West.
He showed that "The use of NRT bought over the counter was associated with a lower odds of abstinence (odds ratio, 0.68; 95% CI, 0.49-0.94)." Prescription NRT + counseling works. You guys are ignoring that important distinction. www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S002...
He showed that "The use of NRT bought over the counter was associated with a lower odds of abstinence (odds ratio, 0.68; 95% CI, 0.49-0.94)." Prescription NRT + counseling works. You guys are ignoring that important distinction. www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S002...
Stanton Glantz
@profglantz.com
· Dec 4
I don't support OTC NRT because, like e-cigarettes, it doesn't help smokers quit without clinical supervision and counseling. That's why I support prescription NRT. The tobacco companies (and e-cg advocate John West) figured this out a long time ago. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28817320/
Stanton Glantz
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· Nov 29
@who.int included Nicotine Replacement Therapy in list of Essential Medicines in 2009 but today regards nicotine in safer, smoke-free options as target for eradication! Please explain flagrant contradiction @profglantz.com @jgitchell.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social
UNAIDS supports harm reduction. WHO supports ILLICIT drug harm reduction... NOW. It hides the fact that during the 1980s "just say no" craze, WHO opposed illicit drug harm reduction... leading many low- and middle-income countries to EXECUTE drug users (a pretty big violation of human rights).
When an ecig company gets it approved as a cessation medicine with a demonstrated positive benefit/risk ratio (which NRT has), I expect I would support it. So far, no company anywhere in the world has done that, perhaps because they know it would fail.
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· Nov 28
UNAIDS supports harm reduction. WHO supports ILLICIT drug harm reduction... NOW. It hides the fact that during the 1980s "just say no" craze, WHO opposed illicit drug harm reduction... leading many low- and middle-income countries to EXECUTE drug users (a pretty big violation of human rights).
@who.int included Nicotine Replacement Therapy in list of Essential Medicines in 2009 but today regards nicotine in safer, smoke-free options as target for eradication! Please explain flagrant contradiction @profglantz.com @jgitchell.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social
Stanton Glantz
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· Nov 27
I don’t see how you can read “reducing or eliminating consumption of tobacco” as supporting the industry’s newer products. The recent WHO position paper I posted a while ago makes that clear. www.who.int/publications...
Stanton Glantz
@profglantz.com
· Nov 27
WHO position on Tobacco Control and Harm Reduction
Publications of the World Health Organization
www.who.int
Please send the specific document. The recent WHO position on Tobacco Control and Harm Reduction www.who.int/publications... says “When it comes to tobacco, nicotine and related products, a [true] harm reduction agenda should never be a reason for light touch regulation or a deregulation agenda.”
Stanton Glantz
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· Nov 25
National Academy of Medicine calls out CDC for misrepresenting NAM position on vaccines and autism
This blog focuses on tobacco and cannabis and public health, so I have refrained from commenting on broader public health issues. But, I am making an exception to disseminate the National Academy of Medicine's statement pointing of that the CDC's November 12, 2025 update to its webpage on autism misrepresented NAM's position on vaccines and autism. Specifically, CDC (at the direction of HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy) revised its website to say that its previous statement that “vaccines do not cause autism” is “not an evidence-based claim.” As…
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National Academy of Medicine calls out CDC for misrepresenting NAM position on vaccines and autism
This blog focuses on tobacco and cannabis and public health, so I have refrained from commenting on broader public health issues. But, I am making an exception to disseminate the National Academy of…
This blog focuses on tobacco and cannabis and public health, so I have refrained from commenting on broader public health issues. But, I am making an exception to disseminate the National Academy of…
Stanton Glantz
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· Nov 21
California Enacts World’s First Thirdhand Smoke Disclosure Law
California has enacted the first law, AB455, that requires sellers of single-family homes to disclose in writing any known indoor smoking, vaping, or thirdhand smoke contamination to prospective buyers. It also also directs the California Department of Toxic Substances Control to update its Homeowner’s Guide to Environmental Hazards to include thirdhand smoke information, a task assigned to San Diego State University's Center for Tobacco and the Environment…
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California Enacts World’s First Thirdhand Smoke Disclosure Law
California has enacted the first law, AB455, that requires sellers of single-family homes to disclose in writing any known indoor smoking, vaping, or thirdhand smoke contamination to prospective buyers. It also also directs the…
California has enacted the first law, AB455, that requires sellers of single-family homes to disclose in writing any known indoor smoking, vaping, or thirdhand smoke contamination to prospective buyers. It also also directs the…
Stanton Glantz
@profglantz.com
· Nov 19
Dual use is not an intermediate condition on the way from cigarettes to “switching completely” or quitting
Discussion of potential harm reduction associated with the use of e-cigarettes assumes that smokers will “switch completely” from cigarettes to e-cigarettes or stop both tobacco product…
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Based on 4 year followup, dual use is rarely an intermediate condition on the way from cigarettes to “switching completely” or quitting. profglantz.com/2024/12/30/d...
Stanton Glantz
@profglantz.com
· Nov 19
It WAS funded by PMI (no longer). I've also served as a Senior Advisor to the WHO, Direct of Child Health at the Optimus Foundation, Program Officer for Health Equity at the Rockefeller Foundation, Assistant Professor of Healthcare Ethics at Howard University Med School... So am I good or evil?
Didn't you go to work for Philip Morris-funded FSFW in 2018, and work there for years when PM was the only financier? It's also important to note that PM dumped FSFW, not the other way around.
Stanton Glantz
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· Nov 18
Unlikely they will remain dual users. US smoking will be approaching zero in 10 years.
In the 1990s, good vs. evil was clear. Back then, I focused on HIV, TB, malaria, dengue & child health, and avoided tobacco control because its go-to interventions were stigma, coercion and harm exaggerations.
In the 1990s, good vs. evil was clear. Back then, I focused on HIV, TB, malaria, dengue & child health, and avoided tobacco control because its go-to interventions were stigma, coercion and harm exaggerations.
Another statement with no direct evidence to support it.
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Unlikely they will remain dual users. US smoking will be approaching zero in 10 years.
In the 1990s, good vs. evil was clear. Back then, I focused on HIV, TB, malaria, dengue & child health, and avoided tobacco control because its go-to interventions were stigma, coercion and harm exaggerations.
In the 1990s, good vs. evil was clear. Back then, I focused on HIV, TB, malaria, dengue & child health, and avoided tobacco control because its go-to interventions were stigma, coercion and harm exaggerations.
Stanton Glantz
@profglantz.com
· Nov 18
You assume they remain dual users. I assume they won't. I assume the US smoking rate will be approaching zero in ~10 years. That's what survey trends show. And that is consistent with what Goldman Sachs reports: Cigarette sales are now dropping 10% per year. This decline is increasing YOY.
What the data from the RCTs show is that for every smoker who quits, 2-4 become dual users. That's what we know.
At least you now admit that you are promoting an assumption.
At least you now admit that you are promoting an assumption.
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You assume they remain dual users. I assume they won't. I assume the US smoking rate will be approaching zero in ~10 years. That's what survey trends show. And that is consistent with what Goldman Sachs reports: Cigarette sales are now dropping 10% per year. This decline is increasing YOY.
Stanton Glantz
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· Nov 17
A medicine that is 100% efficacious, but which no one uses, is 0% "effective." You know this.
You seem to WANT dual use to be the most common outcome. But you know it's:
(a) smokers on the journey to quit
(b) smokers who sometimes vape
(c) vapers who sometimes still have a cig
You seem to WANT dual use to be the most common outcome. But you know it's:
(a) smokers on the journey to quit
(b) smokers who sometimes vape
(c) vapers who sometimes still have a cig
That's what ecig enthusiasts like to say, but not what the data shows. Read the RCTs carefully for people's status at the end of followup.