A strong case to overturn the EU snus ban – 10 reasons why legal action should succeed this time
Good news confirmed today: Swedish Match, the main European snus manufacturer, will take legal action to overturn the European […]
Thinking of a Brexit vote? Consider these questions
It’s a massive decision with thousands of implications not easily recognised or understood. I want people to make the right
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10 provocations about Brexit
I’m off on holiday before the EU referendum – but here’s my take on why to vote Remain in ten provocations.
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No surrender! The fight against harmful, incompetent and pointless European law goes on
Fantastic to see the increasingly powerful UK vaping consumer voice tearing into poor policy and bad law that will do
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Who cares about a few thousand dead? Defending EU limits on the strength of nicotine e-liquids
Updated 16 May 2016 Apparently, there are still people in public health trying to defend the EU Tobacco Products Directive
Regulators and the compliance fallacy – buying 99% nicotine e-liquid from China
How easy will it be to sidestep European Union and U.S. FDA regulation? To find out, I bought some high strength
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UK government e-cigarette impact assessment exposes failed and unlawful EU policy
The UK Department of Health has published an “Impact Assessment” to accompany its implementation of the Tobacco Products Directive (Tobacco
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Harmful and negligent to ignore unintended consequences of e-cigarette policies
In my paper on regulating recreational drugs: Harms or highs? Regulating narcotics, alcohol and nicotine (2015), I suggested, wishfully perhaps,
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Brexit: utopia, dystopia or PONCE?
Updated 29 May 2016 Okay, here are some thoughts on ‘Brexit’ (British exit from the European Union), which is the
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Totally Wicked case: Advocate General’s flawed reasoning would protect the cigarette trade
Update: predictably on 4 May 2016, the judgement was announced and Totally Wicked’s case rejected in full. See judgement in
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