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Useful guide to searching Juul documents now available
The UCSF Industry Documents Library has released a very useful new Juul Labs Collection Content Guide on the IDL website that provides a wealth of information and links to key documents to help people get started in searching the Juul documents. It is specifically built around the Multistate Juul Labs Collection, which includes materials disclosed through…
Switching from cigs to ecigs does not significantly reduce lung cancer risk
Yeon Wook Kim and colleagues’ new paper “Electronic cigarette use after smokingcessation and lung cancer risk” shows that smokers who switch to e-cigarettes have about a 50% higher risk of developing lung cancer and about a doubling of risk of dying from lung cancer than smokers who just stop smoking. Most important, this paper is…
We support FDA expanding HPHC list and suggest adding more flavoring agents (public comment)
On April; 26, 2026, FDA announced that it added 18 compounds to its “Harmful and Potentially Harmful Constituents” (HPHC) list to assess toxicity of tobacco products. This was the first update of the list since it was first released 14 years ago in 2012. The updated list includes several things, most notably propelyne glycol (PG)…
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