Public policy should be evidence-based. This is especiallytrue for public health policy. If we follow Senator Blumenthal’s lead, publichealth policy is going to be formulated based on politics rather than science.

The rest of the story is nicely summarized by Jacob Sullum in a Reason.com . He concludes:

Can you imagine if the tobacco companies used the same logic as Dr. Glantz? They would, according to his scientific reasoning, be perfectly honest in communicating to the public statements like this:

2. Precisely coincident with the rise in electronic cigarette use in the UK has been a significant increase in quit smoking attempts.

Earlier this week, I that the 2014 Surgeon General's fails to disclose the conflicts of interest of its authors, many of whom have received money from pharmaceutical companies which manufacture the very products about which the report opines. I also how this is particularly problematic, since the report itself complains about how historically, tobacco-funded scientists failed to disclose their conflicts of interest. I concluded that the 2014 Surgeon General's report is violating the very ethical principles that it attacks the tobacco company for violating in the past, and I note that while there has been substantial progress in the past 50 years in the area of disclosure of conflicts of interest, somehow that progress has evaded the producers of the Surgeon General's report itself.

LAST：2014 sigelei newest mechanical mod telescope sigelei 20w e cig |NEXT：5-60ml liquid/ shampoo/ e-liquid filling machine in stainless steel material