What The Political History Of Tobacco In The US Means For E-Cigarettes
A study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine compares vaping-related lung injuries to severe chemical burns, based on lung tissue samples from 17 patients with illnesses linked to the use of electronic cigarettes.
More than 1,000 such cases are being investigated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state health departments across the country.
The Trump administration has moved to ban the sale of most flavored e-cigarettes, but vaping is still largely unregulated.
The history of regulatory fights over tobacco products goes back to the earliest days of the United States.
Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson speaks with University of Virginia assistant professor Sarah Milov (@allofmilov), author of a new book called “The Cigarette: A Political History.”
Book Excerpt: “The Cigarette: A Political History”
By Sarah Milov
For three days in June 1975, hundreds of public-health experts, doctors, civil servants, and activists from around the world converged in New York City for the Third World Conference on Smoking and Health. This conference was larger and more diverse than the previous two, in New York (1967) and London (1971). Most importantly, it included a new, decisive figure: the nonsmoker. During the 1970s, it was in his or her name that the most significant regulation of tobacco would occur. At a panel dedicated to the subject of “Non-Smokers’ Rights,” Glenn Goldberg, a lawyer for Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), placed the legal and social movement for non-smokers’ rights in the context
