The government is consulting on proposals for a smokefree generation and restrictions designed to tackle youth vaping, including bans on flavours and disposable vapes – I am sharing my draft consultation responses for information and input
The Commission is trying to use the forthcoming FCTC COP-10 meeting to endorse anti-harm-reduction measures and to evade democratic scrutiny.
In their frantic opposition to safer forms of nicotine use, the tactics of tobacco control activists seem eerily familiar.
South Africa’s parliament is consulting on anti-vaping legislation that is so extreme and ill-designed that it would, if enacted, cause more harm than good. What’s wrong with it, and who is influencing it?
On World No Tobacco Day, the WHO launches a campaign to “grow food, not tobacco” supposedly to address hunger and tackle tuberculosis (TB). None of it makes any sense.
The 2022 Reagan Udall Foundation evaluation of FDAs approach to tobacco highlighted a lack of coherent strategy. An expert group writes to FDA Commissioner Robert Califf with a proposed strategic framework for federal tobacco and nicotine regulation.
Researchers were told their allegations were false, but they still went ahead and attacked a leading vaping company with baseless claims
A vision for a journal covering all aspects of nicotine in society based on open science, curiosity and organised scepticism
New Zealand is planning to introduce so-called ‘endgame’ measures, including the removal of nicotine from legally available tobacco. We examine and review the modelling used to justify the measure and find multiple fatal flaws.
This is my response to the operational review of the performance of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products by the Reagan-Udall foundation. The heart of the problem is the lack of a coherent regulatory strategy, grounded in real-world understanding