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 ...
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 ...
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)? ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Chain restaurants in New York City will now be adding sodium warnings to their menus. But is that the best way to improve diners’ health? Jeff Stier, the director of the Risk Analysis Division at the National Center for Public ...
Those who are concerned about climate change are now also concerned with your meat intake. And it turns out that the recent hype over a perceived meat-cancer link could be a result of environmental scare-mongering. Food writer Julie Kelly, co-author ...
The National Center's Jeff Stier and food writer Julie Kelly took on the politicization of -- of all things -- the federal government's dietary guidelines in an article for National Review this week: Over the past 30 years, the Dietary ...
Tobacco harm reduction is one of the most important issues to the Risk Analysis Division. We believe that proper (limited) regulation of reduced risk products such as e-cigarettes and snus, a type of smokeless tobacco, can save more lives than ...
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Category: Risk Analysis
E-Cigarettes May Soon be Banned in the United States
War on Food and Free Speech Continues: Nanny State Activists Got Whistleblower Journalist ‘Disinvited’ from Consumer Federation of America National Conference
Starbucks May Soon Have the World’s Largest Menu
Nannystaters Try Censorship Again, Put Lives at Stake
Supporters of Health Benefits of E-Cigarettes as Alternative to Tobacco to Speak at Utah State Capitol February 17
Congress to Vote on Scaling Back ObamaCare’s Requirement that Restaurants Print Calorie Counts in Menus
Are Salt Warnings the Best Way to Improve the Way People Eat?
Environmentalists Don’t Want You to Eat Meat
Liberals Play Politics with Government Dietary Standards
Pointing Out Harm Reduction Gains