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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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.
Looking back, but forwards too – guest posting by Louise Ross
As she retires a hero to many in the field of tobacco harm reduction and public health, Louise Ross has
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English tobacco control plan embraces tobacco harm reduction – world first
The Department of Health (UK/England) today released its tobacco control plan for England: Towards a smoke-free generation: tobacco control plan for
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Hold the Mayo
Once again the Mayo Clinic indulges in unethical and misleading risk communications in the form of a new article on
Reshaping American tobacco policy: eight proposals for the Trump administration
Welcome to a new report written by me, Clive Bates, with David Sweanor of Ottawa University, and Eli Lehrer, President
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Five questions to put to the US Surgeon General on e-cigarette science
Update 8 December – my reaction: Bad science, poor insights and likely to do harm – rapid reaction to the Surgeon
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Bad science, accountability and courage – speech by AG Tom Miller
On 17 November 2016, the Iowa Attorney General, Tom Miller, gave a speech at the E-cigarette Summit 2016 (with biography) on e-cigarettes
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Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller gives outstanding speech on smoking, vaping and public health – listen
Quite simply the best speech I have ever heard on tobacco and nicotine policy, science and ethics. From Tom Miller