While the tobacco industrys latest legal challenge may not hold up, it could delay the new warning labels for years
Electronic cigarettes (ECs) are a non-combustible nicotine product and as such are substantially less harmful than cigarettes [1,2,3]
That being said, if you expect to purchase any merch, we recommend entering the venue at door time so you have plenty of time to get in line and make your purchase
and the horrible, horrible irony is that the tobacco industries research is world class and open to all as they try to be whiter than white and claw back some of their reputation, and its the *public health research* that is being shown again and again and again to be utterly woeful, full of holes, unrealistically set up, deliberately misleading, failing to compare harm etc yet still gets breathless front page press coverage *every* time it comes out, with no recourse for correction, even before its been formally peer reviewed or published in many cases
What they represent today is something arguably more interesting than a toaster or a fishing rod: they are primary source artifacts of one of the most sustained consumer loyalty programs in American history, collectible on their own terms as ephemera, as graphic history, and as personal nostalgia objects
