As I had suggested in my September 2010 column, Judge Richard Leon's decision was based in large part on his finding that Dr. Benowitz's ongoing conflict of interest with pharmaceutical companies rendered him unable to objectively consider the issue of dissolvable tobacco products (DTPs).

For example, I am proud of having been part of a team that was the first ever to report that the dietary supplement L-tryptophan can via the eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome. This important conclusion - which had major public health policy implications - was based on a single reported case of pulmonary hypertension. In other words, it was based on a single "anecdote." Had we dismissed this finding because a single anecdote is not data, then we would have failed to report this relationship and many more patients would have suffered that fate, possibly leading to fatalities.

According to an at CSPnet.com: "The nation's tobacco companies and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) have reached an agreement on publishing corrective statements that say the companies lied about the dangers of smoking and requires them to disclose smoking's health effects, said an Associated Press report."

The Rest of the Story

• We lied to you when we told you that "many kids are starting out with e-cigarettes and then going on to smoke conventional cigarettes."

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