Category: Health

Congress Must Act Quickly To Halt FDA’s Upcoming Regulation To Kill E-Cigarettes

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FDA Release of E-Cigarette Rules "Imminent" House Appropriations Committee Can Take Steps to Deter FDA FY2017 Agriculture Appropriations Bill To Be Debated in Committee Next Wednesday Washington, D.C. / New York, NY - The Food and Drug Administration's Center for ...
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E-Cigarettes May Soon be Banned in the United States

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The National Center's Risk Analysis Director, Jeff Stier, tells me that e-cigarettes may soon be banned in the United States. This will set up a ludicrous situation in which e-cigarettes, which deliver nicotine to users without cancer-causing tobacco carcinogens or ...
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War on Food and Free Speech Continues: Nanny State Activists Got Whistleblower Journalist ‘Disinvited’ from Consumer Federation of America National Conference

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Journalist Has Uncovered Shoddy Science in Government Nutrition Advice That Led Americans to Avoid Certain Fats in Favor of Carbohydrates Bad Advice in Part Led to Expanded Obesity, Diabetes Rates But Nanny State Activists Want Americans to Rely on Government ...
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Are Abortionists Really “Butchers”?

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Can abortionists be appropriately labeled “butchers?” That’s the term used by Horace Cooper of the National Center for Public Policy Research, a term that sent his liberal counterpart Sam Bennett reeling in horror last night on the RT Network’s “The ...
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U.S. Senate Makes Bill to Fight Opioid Abuse a Priority, But Why Isn’t This Best Left to States and Localities?

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Hate to be a skunk at a garden party (as usual!), but I question the conventional wisdom about S.524, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016, a bi-partisan bill that permits the Justice Department and HHS to make grants ...
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Starbucks May Soon Have the World’s Largest Menu

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Does the fact that there are 36,000 possible Frappuccino combinations at Starbucks mean that Starbucks soon must print the calorie count for all 36,000 combinations on its menu, under little-known regulations brought to us by the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)? ...
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Look at American Vets to See Future of Government Health Care

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Project 21’s Kevin Martin participated in a televised discussion Wednesday about whether employers should be able to mine data about their employees in order to predict health risks. Kevin pointed out that government employees already have their data mined. He ...
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Nannystaters Try Censorship Again, Put Lives at Stake

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The National Center's Jeff Stier is in Salt Lake City today, where he and a group of about thirty people politely, and silently, held signs opposing a massive 86.5 percent tax hike on e-cigarettes, the tobacco-free devices that permit people ...
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Supporters of Health Benefits of E-Cigarettes as Alternative to Tobacco to Speak at Utah State Capitol February 17

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Salt Lake City, UT - On Wednesday, Feb. 17th, National Center for Public Policy Research Senior Fellow Jeff Stier will join the Utah Smoke-Free Association and the Utah chapter of the Smoke Free Alternatives Trade Association (SFATA) in Salt Lake ...
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Congress to Vote on Scaling Back ObamaCare’s Requirement that Restaurants Print Calorie Counts in Menus

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Obama Administration's FDA Makes it a Felony if Even Small Restaurants Make an Error When Posting Calorie Counts Administration Also Forbids Restaurants from Posting a Range of Calories for Items, Such as Pizza, That May Be Ordered With Variable Toppings ...
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