Who or what is the World Health Organisation at war with?
The World Health Organisation does a good line in war-like rhetoric when it comes to tobacco policy. But what is […]
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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
Professor Glantz brings his anti-vaping crusade to Europe – I review his presentation
Regrettably, the influence of Professor Stanton Glantz of the University of California at San Fransisco is not confined to California
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Fighting the Vape Militia Online and Off – a reply to the speakers
This session from a California tobacco control conference was circulated on Twitter and caught my eye. To me, it summarises a
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Anti-vaping zealots write flat-earth letter to The Times
A remarkably self-regarding letter is published in The Times (London) today. The writers are reacting with hostility to the outstanding Royal College
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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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Smears or science? The BMJ attack on Public Health England and its e-cigarettes evidence review
For doing what it should do and doing it well, Public Health England has been subjected to a frenzy of
US public health establishment proposes to increase fiscal deaths
According to the great sage Benjamin Franklin in 1789: … in this world nothing can be said to be certain,
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Public health experts talking sense about e-cigarettes and vaping
Public Health England recently published some excellent video commentaries on vaping and e-cigarettes by genuinely thoughtful and engaged public health
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Anti-complaint about e-cigarette advertising
I’ve recently been stressing the unintended consequences of regulatory interventions on vapour products… and that these are almost always ignored by
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