FCTC COP-11 – a survival guide for delegates
UK Tobacco and Vapes Bill: why so many are wrong to support it
The war on nicotine will fail but could kill millions
Why is anyone supporting the UK Tobacco and Vapes Bill?
The danger of e-cigarette prohibition and illicit trade
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
Evidence briefs
Four briefings on smoke free alternatives covering (1) safety, (2) displacing smoking, (3) youth, and (4) policy. (December 2024)
The critic’s guide to bad vaping science
Plain language guide to questioning the science of e-cigarette studies
LATEST TWEETS
Real public health explained at human scale.
At best, of only passing interest in most of the weird world of tobacco control. At worst, something to mobilise against with billionaire backing.
@Bludn_Gore Very easy to forget after 13 years since stopping 🚬, the frustration/exhaustion of previous years lack of sleep caused by constant coughing via cataarh n phlegm....... symptoms disappeared within a couple of weeks after switching to a Vape.
Other conditions experienced,
@Bludn_Gore Very easy to forget after 13 years since stopping 🚬, the frustration/exhaustion of previous years lack of sleep caused by constant coughing via cataarh n phlegm....... symptoms disappeared within a couple of weeks after switching to a Vape.
Other conditions experienced,
Outstanding take-down of a crazy letter from the clown caucus of 8 health ministers in the EU that want to protect the incumbent cigarette trade by freezing out competition from safer products. Mercifully most ministers declined to sign, so Europe is split.
Eight Ministers Want to Freeze Europe's Smoke-Free Future https://farsalinos.github.io/en/news/eu-bans-en/
Look at the acceleration in smoking cessation since around 2015. What could it be? Great news for public health that adult smoking prevalence has dropped below 10% for the first time in Britain.
9.8% of adults smoked cigarettes in the UK in 2025 were smokers. This is a historic low and very positive news. As shown in the figure below, the reduction is greatest in young people, who are also more likely to be using other, less harmful, nicotine products.