Here comes trouble: an anti-tobacco hero’s complicated legacy

Not many scientists have fought harder against smoking than Stanton Glantz. "His research contributions in tobacco control are legendary," said Pam Ling, who succeeded Glantz as head of USCF's Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, at a campus event earlier this year. Glantz's 2014 article in JAMA Pediatrics was the first national study to show that e-cigarettes were a "gateway to nicotine addiction for U.S. teens," according to a UCSF press release. In August 2018, he described the results from the first study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine on his UCSF blog under the headline: "Risk of heart attacks is double for daily e-cigarette users." Ten months later, when describing the second study, published in 2019 in the Journal of the American Heart Association, Glantz said it provided "more evidence that e-cigs cause heart attacks."