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
Vaping policy – rapid questions and answers
I just filed a submission with the Philippines House of Representatives for its Joint Trade & Health Industry Committee hearings
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Twitter Q&A: debunking tobacco harm reduction misconceptions
I did a Twitter chat with the Campaign for Safer Alternatives on the typical objections raised to tobacco harm reduction.
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Lancet commentary – Nicotine without smoke: fighting the tobacco epidemic with harm reduction
I am proud to be a co-author of a commentary published today in The Lancet: Nicotine without smoke: fighting the
Vaping risk compared to smoking: challenging a false and dangerous claim by Professor Stanton Glantz
This blog examines an extraordinary claim by Professor Stanton Glantz that the US public is right to believe that vaping is as harmful as smoking and that science is now catching up with public opinion. This claim is profoundly and dangerously false, and it demands a challenge. This is a 13,000-word review looking in detail at Professor Glantz’s 700-word commentary and its supporting citations, examining thirteen claims that form the basis of the overall claim relating to cancer, heart attacks, stroke and respiratory illness, impact on smoking cessation and population smoking.
Anti-vaping activists pitch unscientific fringe positions to a national newspaper
Updated 2nd March, 2019. An email originating from a senior journalist at a national newspaper reached me indirectly this morning.
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Think before you sign: a new letter attacking the Foundation for a Smokefree World
A draft activist letter to the WHO Executive Board is circulating widely on email networks – so widely that it
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The great American youth vaping epidemic. Really?
When senior officials claim that the is an epidemic of teenage vaping or nicotine addiction, what do they actually mean and does the claim makes sense? Most vaping is infrequent, and regular use is concentrated among smokers, where is may be benficial.
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Lynne Dawkins: E-cigarettes – an evidence update
Dr Lynne Dawkins of London South Bank University gives her terrific myth-busting lecture on e-cigarettes – see the YouTube video
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