All Videos for Tobacco

Do Any Benefits of Alcohol Outweigh the Risks?

What would happen if you effectively randomized people at birth to drink more or less alcohol their whole lives? Would they get more or less heart disease?



Is It Better to Drink a Little Alcohol Than None at All?

Even if alcohol causes cancer and there is no “French paradox,” what about the famous J-shaped curve, where excessive drinking is bad, but light drinkers appear to have lower mortality than abstainers?



Can Alcohol Cause Cancer?

If even light drinking can cause cancer, why don’t doctors warn their patients about it?



Does Marijuana Cause Health Problems?

Every year, cannabis is estimated to result in two million years of healthy life lost due to disability. How much is that compared to alcohol and tobacco?



Is Marijuana Addictive?

The evidence clearly indicates that long-term marijuana use can lead to addiction, but are there negative consequences?



Talcum Powder and Fibroids

What role does diet and baby powder play in the development of fibroids and ovarian cancer?



Researching the Health Effects of Marijuana

Politics, prejudice, and pressure coming from both sides add to the complexity of cannabis research.



The Institute of Medicine Report on the Health Effects of Marijuana

What did the 2017 National Academies of Sciences’ 468-page report conclude about cannabis?



The Best Diet for Fibroids

The same diet that helps regulate hormones in women may also reduce exposure to endocrine-disrupting pollutants.



Does Cell Phone Radiation Cause Cancer?

Do mobile phones cause brain tumors? Whenever a trillion-dollar industry is involved—whether it’s Big Food, Big Tobacco, Big Pharma, or Big Telecom—there’s so much money that the science can get manipulated.



Cancer Risk from Arsenic in Rice & Seaweed

A daily half-cup of cooked rice may carry a hundred times the acceptable cancer risk of arsenic. What about seaweed from the coast of Maine?



The Food Industry Wants the Public Confused About Nutrition

The Fairness Doctrine example shows the extent to which purveyors of unhealthy products will go to keep the truth from the American public.



Controversy Over the Trans Fat Ban

The food industry fought tooth and nail to retain partially hydrogenated oils, even though they were killing 50,000 Americans a year.



How the Leaded Gas Industry Got Away with It

How the lead industry got the best science money could buy.



Don’t Wait Until Your Doctor Kicks the Habit

Just as most doctors smoked in the 1950s, most physicians today continue to consume foods that are contributing to our epidemics of dietary disease.



Evidence-Based Eating

It took more than 7,000 studies and the deaths of countless smokers before the first Surgeon General report against smoking was finally released. Another mountain of evidence for healthier eating exists today, but much of society has yet to catch up to the science.



Would Taxing Unhealthy Foods Improve Public Health?

Increasing the cost of cigarettes through tobacco taxes is one of the most effective ways to decrease the harms of smoking. What does the science say about taxing sodium, sugar, and saturated fat?



How Smoking in 1959 Is Like Eating in 2019

Given that diet is the number-one cause of death and disability, nutrition is surely the number-one subject taught in medical school, right? And it’s certainly the number-one issue your doctor talks with you about, right? If only. How can there be such a disconnect between the available evidence and the practice of medicine?



Animal Protein, Pregnancy, and Childhood Obesity

What pregnant women eat may affect even the health of their grandchildren.



How Not to Die: An Animated Summary

We have tremendous power over our health destiny and longevity.



How Not to Die from Diabetes

Type 2 diabetes can be prevented, arrested, and even reversed with a healthy enough diet.



How Not to Die from Cancer

What happens when we put cancer on a plant-based diet?



How Not to Die from Heart Disease

Lifestyle approaches aren’t only safer and cheaper—they can work better, because they let us treat the actual cause of the disease.



How Did Doctors Not Know About the Risks of Hormone Therapy?

Women were placed in harm’s way by their physicians, who acted as unsuspecting patsies for the drug companies.



Disclosing Conflicts of Interest in Medical Research

Billions in fines for bribery and suppressing data may just be the cost of doing business for drug companies, but surely doctors themselves must have more integrity, right?



Animal Protein Compared to Cigarette Smoking

Only about 1 in 10,000 people live to be 100 years old. What’s their secret?



The Hispanic Paradox: Why Do Latinos Live Longer?

Despite less education on average, a higher poverty rate, and more limited access to health care, U.S. Hispanics tend to live the longest. Why?



The Best Way to Get Vitamin D: Sun, Supplements, or Salons?

If one is going to make an evolutionary argument for what a “natural” vitamin D level may be, how about getting vitamin D in the way nature intended—that is, from the sun instead of supplements?



Will You Live Longer if You Take Vitamin D Supplements?

What do 56 randomized clinical trials involving nearly 100,000 people between the ages of 18 and 107 show vitamin D can do to our lifespan?



American Medical Association Complicity with Big Tobacco

Mainstream medicine’s permissive attitude towards smoking in the face of overwhelming evidence can be an object lesson for contemporary medical collusion with the food industry.



Peppers and Parkinson’s: The Benefits of Smoking Without the Risks?

Might the nicotine content in nightshade vegetables, such as tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants, and bell peppers, protect against Parkinson’s disease?



Is Something in Tobacco Protective Against Parkinson’s Disease?

The tobacco industry points to dozens of studies purporting to show tobacco use is associated with a lower incidence of Parkinson’s disease.



Sodium Skeptics Try to Shake Up the Salt Debate

What about the studies that show a “u-shaped curve,” where too much sodium is bad, but too little may be bad too?



How to Counter the Inflammation of Aging

What can we eat to combat “inflamm-aging,” the chronic low-grade inflammation that accompanies the aging process?



The Healthy Food Movement: Strength in Unity

The tobacco industry has focused more recently on divide-and-conquer strategies to create schisms within the tobacco control movement. We in the healthy food community can learn from this by staying united and not allowing minor disagreements to distract us from the bigger picture.



What Explains the French Paradox?

Why do heart attack rates appear lower than expected in France, given their saturated fat and cholesterol intake? Is it their red wine consumption, their vegetable consumption, or something else?



Evidence-Based Nutrition

It took more than 7,000 studies and the deaths of countless smokers before the Surgeon General’s report on tobacco was released in the 1960s. How many people are suffering needlessly from preventable dietary diseases today?



How to Reduce the Risk of Sudden Death

Diet and lifestyle improvements started even late in life can offer dramatic benefits.



Industry Response to Plants Not Pills

The whole food is greater than the sum of its parts: how unscrupulous marketers use evidence that ties high blood levels of phytonutrients with superior health to sell dietary supplements that may do more harm than good.



Big Food Using the Tobacco Industry Playbook

The processed food industries now use tactics similar to those used by cigarette companies to undermine public health interventions.