UK smoking and vaping policy consultation – my draft response
EU bureaucrats plotting to use WHO treaty to sideline European Parliament on tobacco harm reduction
Is tobacco control the new Big Tobacco?
South Africa’s self-harming anti-vaping legislation
World Health Organisation exploits tobacco farmers, the hungry, sick and poor in its crude activism.
Videos
Short: what’s wrong with vaping prohibition?
4 December 2022
Five brief reasons why prohibition fails on all counts.
Categories
2020 Q & A on nicotine science and policy
It mostly focuses on nicotine vaping as an alternative to smoking, but most of the argument also applies to heated tobacco products, modern smokeless tobacco and new oral nicotine products.
Resources
Tobacco Harm Reduction Calendar
See critical dates in the tobacco and public health year
What is happening in England
Policy, legislation, data, politics, advocacy
The critic’s guide to bad vaping science
Plain language guide to questioning the science of e-cigarette studies
LATEST TWEETS
@Clive_Bates @FBaeyens @mikepesko More tax info can be found here.
A timely reminder that public health is partly an economic discipline… though policies are almost always unsupported by economic analysis and evidence.
Take vape taxes:
H/T @FBaeyens
Cc: @mikepesko
Did I mention that @WHO is now as dangerous as the tobacco industry ever was… but amplified with an enhanced abuse of trust. This is a *disgraceful* presentation of vaping science and public health impact.
South Africa breaking free of "Apartheid-era cannabis prohibition". That's very good.
But has it become supine to philanthropic colonialism through extreme nicotine regulation pushed by American billionaire-funded prohibitionists?
Make your mind up here:…
"People struggle with the idea of using psychoactive drugs for pleasure"
No they don't!
It's rife.
Don't be duped by prohibitionist propaganda