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?
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.
The September 2021 edition of CHEST, the respiratory journal, features a point/counterpoint debate on the value of e-cigarettes for tobacco …
Bloomberg scrutinised. Unusually, a journalist decided to take a sceptical look at Bloomberg Philanthropies and its many proxies and the …
Holding the Bloomberg anti-vaping propaganda complex to account Read More
The Netherlands is proposing to ban e-cigarette flavours – what could possibly go wrong? The government of the Netherlands, led …
Let’s have some debate on the future of tobacco, nicotine, tobacco control and the tobacco and vaping industry. Here are …
The past is not the future – what lies ahead for tobacco and nicotine? Read More
As the World Health Organisation’s World No Tobacco Day takes aim at low-risk alternatives to smoking, several international experts have …
Update: I subsequently published a detailed rebuttal of the claim that nicotine vaping is implicated in these lung injuries: The …
US vaping lung injury outbreak was a public health fiasco or worse – comment to FDA Read More
This paper turned up in my weekly search of PubMed. Invalidity of an Oft-Cited Estimate of the Relative Harms of …
I just filed a submission with the Philippines House of Representatives for its Joint Trade & Health Industry Committee hearings …