In the history of wrongness, it is hard to find greater wrongness than the uncritical support for the UK Tobacco and Vapes Bill. The legislation is likely to do more harm than good, yet attracts widespread but uncritical support.
UK Tobacco and Vapes Bill: why so many are wrong to support it Read More
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill now making its way through Parliament and related measures is a failure of policy-making and public health leadership. The headline anti-smoking measure is a nothing-burger and the anti-vaping measures will do more harm than good.
Why is anyone supporting the UK Tobacco and Vapes Bill? Read More
New UK policies and legislation on smoking and vaping have been widely hailed as groundbreaking and game-changing. That is wrong. Closer examination shows they are likely to do more harm than good – a misfire and a backfire.
UK Tobacco and Vapes Bill: a Misfire and a Backfire Read More
The UK government has decided it will ban disposable vapes and suggests it will ban vape flavours. This will trigger more smoking, more illicit trade and more workarounds. The problem of youth vaping is a non-problem and the government is reacting to a moral panic it doesn’t understand.
UK to ban disposable vapes, restrict flavours and do more stupid stuff Read More
England aims to reduce smoking to less than 5% by 2030, but this will need mass switching to smoke-free products as a consumer alternative to smoking, and it must be achieved by consent rather than coercion
Independent review of tobacco policy in England misses the point Read More
100 experts signed a public letter on the failure of the WHO approach to tobacco smoking and public health. In
Expert statements on WHO and tobacco harm reduction Read More
This paper turned up in my weekly search of PubMed. Invalidity of an Oft-Cited Estimate of the Relative Harms of
Updates: New Zealand moves / Media interviews Update: two new submissions (available at Committee submissions page #336) Clive Bates, Colin
Is Australia falling behind on tobacco policy? Read More
Update 24 September: Cancer Research UK says its hasn’t “been prevented from doing anything by the ASA that we are
Advertising code at fault over e-cigarette public health ad ban Read More
The Department of Health (UK/England) today released its tobacco control plan for England: Towards a smoke-free generation: tobacco control plan for
English tobacco control plan embraces tobacco harm reduction – world first Read More