One of the worst ever tobacco control papers is ‘corrected’
Researchers were told their allegations were false, but they still went ahead and attacked a leading vaping company with baseless claims
My application for Editor-in-Chief of Tobacco Control
A vision for a journal covering all aspects of nicotine in society based on open science, curiosity and organised scepticism
Fake news alert: WHO updates its post-truth fact sheet on e-cigarettes
The World Health Organisation continues to present misleading information about e-cigarettes that spreads doubt and confusion among the public, media and policymakers. This post reviews its latest Q & A and finds multiple errors of analysis, misleading statements, and obvious biases.
Will Brazil rethink its vaping prohibition?
“O Brasil vai repensar sua proibição de vaping?” Brazil is consulting on lifting its ban on vaping products. Will it recognise the perverse consequences of prohibition and shift to risk-proportionate regulation? We argue it should rethink its approach to nicotine.
E-cigarette risk perceptions – an American crime scene
Most Americans now incorrectly believe that e-cigarettes are just as harmful or more harmful than cigarettes. US health organisations have unethically cultivated this misunderstanding and compare unfavourably with UK equivalents. Their duplicitous behaviour resembles that of Big Tobacco 50 years ago.
Prohibitionists at work: how the WHO damages public health through hostility to tobacco harm reduction
This post examines how WHO and related institutions aggressively promote the prohibition of much safer alternatives to cigarettes, such as …
Holding the Bloomberg anti-vaping propaganda complex to account
Bloomberg scrutinised. Unusually, a journalist decided to take a sceptical look at Bloomberg Philanthropies and its many proxies and the …
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Australia’s anti-vaping activists and bureaucrats working together to harass citizens and protect the cigarette trade
Download Post as PDFI remember back when I was Director of Action on Smoking and Health in the UK (1997-2003), …
World Health Organisation fails at science and fails at propaganda – the sad case of WHO’s anti-vaping Q&A
On 20 January 2020, the World Health Organisation published a question and answer page on “ENDS” (Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems) …
Vaping is still at least 95% lower risk than smoking – debunking a feeble and empty critique
This paper turned up in my weekly search of PubMed. Invalidity of an Oft-Cited Estimate of the Relative Harms of …