Sean Bell, Senior Vice President, Strategic Development:   Free & Clear's CMO, Tim McAfee, is a man of proud Scottish heritage, so I think he must be particularly pleased with today's news published in the  New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and reported on in the Wall Street Journal. In the study, the authors prove conclusively that not only do public smoking bans work to reduce exposure to secondhand smoke in nonsmokers, but also in reducing the number of hospital admissions... [More]

Sean Bell, Senior Vice President, Strategic Development:   June 19’s news on the brouhaha out of DC around the Veterans' Administration (VA) not providing adequate information to test subjects around the potential side effects of Chantix was a sad reminder of the larger issue around veterans and tobacco use in general.   For those of you not following the story, ABC News and the Washington Times reported that the VA did not adequately inform veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ... [More]