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FDA’s Attack on E-Cigarette Will Cost Lives

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FDA’s Attack on E-Cigarette Will Cost Lives

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 05/05/2016

While the public health goals of protecting consumers from possibly harmful vaping products and preventing kids from becoming addicted to nicotine are laudable goals, this…

Consumer Freedom

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Advocates Attempt to Debunk Idea that Any Alcohol Is Beneficial

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 03/25/2016

For most public health advocates, no amount of alcohol is safe. As they see it, any amount of alcohol increases a drinkers risk for certain…

Consumer Freedom

Utah’s Disastrous War on Electronic Cigarettes

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Utah’s Disastrous War on Electronic Cigarettes

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 02/23/2016

Despite the fact that tobacco products kill nearly half a million Americans each year, it is vaping products—which help people quit smoking—that have become a…

Consumer Freedom

Congress Gets Some Common Sense on Nutritional Disclosure

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Congress Gets Some Common Sense on Nutritional Disclosure

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 02/17/2016

Last week, members of the House approved a bill that giving customers the nutrition information they want while minimizing harm and cost. Now it's up…

Consumer Freedom

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Overregulation Turns Sydney into International “Laughing Stock”

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 02/16/2016

American city officials, take note: Sometimes the remedy to a purported problem is worse than the disease. This is a lesson fans of Sydney’s once…

Consumer Freedom

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House Votes This Week on Common Sense Nutritional Disclosure Bill

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 02/08/2016

Many, if not most proposals that make their way through Congress seem to have comically unsuitable names. However, at the end of this week the…

Consumer Freedom

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CDC Alcohol and Pregnancy Scare Tactics Backfire

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 02/08/2016

Are you a woman of childbearing age? Do you binge drink constantly and have unprotected sex on the reg? Well, the CDC wants you to…

Consumer Freedom

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CDC Sodium Reduction Efforts: Helpful or Harmful?

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 01/19/2016

Most people accept as gospel the nutritional limits set by government organizations. So, when the Centers for Disease Control releases a report saying that 89…

Consumer Freedom

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Milk, Saturated Fat, and Why You Shouldn’t Take Nutrition Advice from Jezebel

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 01/14/2016

Growing up lactose intolerant, I was fond of saying that drinking milk post-infanthood was unnatural. Then I found out that humans aren’t the only ones in…

Consumer Freedom

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New Dietary Guidelines: Some Improvements but Also Fatal Flaws

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 01/07/2016

As expected, the nutritional guidelines for 2015-2020 thankfully excised the long-standing warning against cholesterol-laden food in the wake of several decades of research demonstrating that the original…

Consumer Freedom

Craft Brewers “Selling Out” Is Good For Craft Beer Fans

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Craft Brewers “Selling Out” Is Good For Craft Beer Fans

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 01/05/2016

This week we learned that U.K. craft brewery Camden Town was the latest in a long string of purchases by the international mega-brewery AB-InBev…

Consumer Freedom

The Good the Bad and the Big: Top 3 Consumer Policy Stories of 2015

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The Good the Bad and the Big: Top 3 Consumer Policy Stories of 2015

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 01/01/2016

2015 was a big year for health and consumer news. Unfortunately, many of the biggest stories were viral in the true sense of the word:…

Consumer Freedom

Holiday Liquor Laws: Where to Buy Your Christmas Cup of Cheer

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Holiday Liquor Laws: Where to Buy Your Christmas Cup of Cheer

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 12/23/2015

Nobody wants to drive an hour over the border just to get booze, especially on Christmas Day. However, 27 states in the union still have…

Consumer Freedom

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Congressional Committee Favors State-Based Legalization of Online Gambling

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 12/11/2015

Wednesday’s hearing was not good for those hoping to make a case for a national online gambling prohibition. While the House Oversight Committee hearing was supposed…

Consumer Freedom

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Deck Stacked at House Oversight Committee Hearing on Internet Gambling

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 12/08/2015

Tomorrow the House Oversight and Government Reform (OGR) Committee will hold a hearing titled, “Casino in Every Smartphone – Law Enforcement Implications,” to discuss…

Consumer Freedom

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Repealed 82 Years Ago, the Spirit of Prohibition Lives On

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 12/04/2015

Tomorrow, December 5, many of us will raise a glass in celebration of Repeal Day—the anniversary of the end of that disastrous experiment of alcohol prohibition…

Consumer Freedom

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3 Political Food Developments to Be Thankful For

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 11/24/2015

For most of us in the U.S., we don’t have to worry about getting enough food. Quite the opposite actually; holidays like Thanksgiving can be…

Consumer Freedom

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House Commerce Committee Approves “Pizza” Bill to Ease Onerous Calorie Labeling Rule

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 11/23/2015

While most consumers are blissfully unaware, a provision tucked into the Affordable Care Act could cause food vendors a lot of headaches. Starting on December…

Consumer Freedom

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Should a Billionaire Decide Where Pennsylvanians Can Gamble?

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 11/16/2015

The casino industry has been good for my home state of Pennsylvania. For whatever ills one might claim goes along with gambling, the gaming industry…

Consumer Freedom

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Daily Fantasy Sports Betting: Gambling or Game of Skill?

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 11/11/2015

That is the big question in New York today after that state’s attorney general issued a cease and desist order to DraftKings and FanDuel—the two…

Consumer Freedom

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Federal Menu Laws Need Some Common Sense

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 11/02/2015

This week, the House Energy and Commerce committee will hold a mark-up hearing on the Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act (H.R. 2017), a bipartisan bill intended…

Consumer Freedom

The Real Question about Fantasy Sports Gambling the GOP Debate Missed

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The Real Question about Fantasy Sports Gambling the GOP Debate Missed

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 10/29/2015

In this clown-car of a GOP primary, it’s inevitable that the discussion will sometimes veer onto more superficial avenues of questioning. After all, news is entertainment and…

Consumer Freedom

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Glyphosate in Tampons, Oh My!

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 10/26/2015

You may have seen the hilarious headlines about putting Monsanto in your vagina (if not, you’re welcome/I’m sorry). This hyperbole comes on the heels of a…

Consumer Freedom

ABI MillerCoors Merger Won’t Harm the Craft Beer Movement

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ABI MillerCoors Merger Won’t Harm the Craft Beer Movement

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 10/14/2015

The folks at Food & Water Watch are pissed. And I don’t mean “pissed” as in drunk; they are mad as hell about the proposed…

Antitrust

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What Will a Chaffetz Speakership Mean for Internet Freedom? Part 2

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 10/08/2015

Utah Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz recently threw his hat in the ring in a bid to replace Speaker John Boehner, after House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s…

Consumer Freedom

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The Death of RAWA: A Performance for an Audience of One

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 10/07/2015

RAWA (H.R. 707) is dying the slow death of bills that aren’t sexy enough to draw attention away from much sexier issues. With the House…

Consumer Freedom

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On Added Sugars, Canada Gets Right What the U.S. Got Wrong

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 10/04/2015

Last month, I wrote about how the new nutritional labels might end up making Americans fatter and sicker. Particularly dangerous, in my opinion, is the addition…

Consumer Freedom

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Has Plain Packaging Reduced Tobacco Consumption?

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 09/23/2015

In 2012, the Australian government instituted a plan tobacco packing requirement—that is, a generic package that removes all stylistic aspects of packaging: colors, imagery, corporate…

Consumer Freedom

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Fantasy Sports Betting Isn’t a Federal Crime, as No Sports Betting Should Be

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 09/22/2015

If you watched football during the open weekend of the NFL season, you probably saw an advertisement for DraftKings or FanDuel. Part of the rapidly…

Consumer Freedom

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Proposed Food Label Change Could Make Us Fatter and Sicker

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 09/21/2015

There’s a new push to finalize the Food and Drug Administration’s new guidelines for nutritional panels. The changes, which include listing “added sugars” and updating…

Consumer Freedom

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  • Devin Watkins
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  • Ryan Young
  • Joel Zinberg

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