On World No Tobacco Day, the WHO launches a campaign to “grow food, not tobacco” supposedly to address hunger and tackle tuberculosis (TB). None of it makes any sense.
A vision for a journal covering all aspects of nicotine in society based on open science, curiosity and organised scepticism
My application for Editor-in-Chief of Tobacco Control Read More
Matt Holman resigns as Director of the Office of Science at the Center for Tobacco Products at the FDA. He is moving to the tobacco company Philip Morris International to be Vice President of US Scientific Engagement & Regulatory Strategy. What to make of this? I write him an open letter.
From FDA to PMI – a sell-out or a bold move for public health? Read More
FDA has authorised 22nd Century to claim a reduced nicotine cigarette is a reduced risk product. This will spread confusion and divert smokers from better choices.
FDA spreads confusion about nicotine and smoking Read More
A message for World No Tobacco Day, 31 May 2021 If you just want to go straight to our unforgiving
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
I did a Twitter chat with the Campaign for Safer Alternatives on the typical objections raised to tobacco harm reduction.
Twitter Q&A: debunking tobacco harm reduction misconceptions Read More
This puts it nicely: Life is short and shorter for smokers. Just legalise vaping. That statement is a plain-speaking and
Ten perverse intellectual contortions: a guide to the sophistry of anti-vaping activists Read More
This is an update to an earlier post about the PMI-funded Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW). My main argument
Foundation for a Smoke-Free World and the mindless mob behaviour of tobacco control Read More