WHO has gone rogue on tobacco policy – millions at risk from tired dogma and a refusal to grasp innovation
A message for World No Tobacco Day, 31 May 2021 If you just want to go straight to our unforgiving …
Ten perverse intellectual contortions: a guide to the sophistry of anti-vaping activists
This puts it nicely: Life is short and shorter for smokers. Just legalise vaping. That statement is a plain-speaking and …
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Time for the Government of Sweden to get behind snus and tobacco harm reduction
One of the more puzzling things about snus is the reluctance of Sweden’s government to claim credit for what is …
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Letter to European Commissioner for Better Regulation on the worst regulation in the EU – the snus ban
Updated 19 July 2017 with the reply. Eighteen of us have written a detailed letter to Mr Frans Timmerman, the …
WHO tobacco meeting – could the FCTC do something useful on vaping?
I’m sometimes accused of being a WHO-sceptic, or worse. No more! In the run up to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control …
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New Nicotine Alliance calls for repeal of EU e-cigarette regulation and snus ban
New Nicotine Alliance proposes that the forthcoming Great Repeal Act is used to repeal pointless, burdensome and restrictive EU regulation of e-cigarettes …
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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 …
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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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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The tobacco control high command has lost its way – what we learn from its views on FDA priorities
A recent editorial in the journal Tobacco Control discusses what’s wrong with the FDA. In fact, the editorial is more telling …