I respond to SRNT’s “Listening Session” on the proposal to exclude all recreational nicotine companies from SRNT membership, meetings, and publications. I strongly disagree.
Written input to SRNT on excluding tobacco and nicotine companies Read More
The irresistible urge to make bad policy that excessively restricts safer alternatives to smoking is on the rise. This time in Spain. I respond to a consultation on anti-vaping and pouch proposals.
Self-defeating vape and pouch policies in Spain – consultation response Read More
Mexico’s ban on vapes and heated tobacco products about to become an absurd part of the constitution. Obviously, this is a terrible mistake on multiple levels. I provide five points for legislators to consider.
Letter to Senators regarding Mexico’s constitutional vape ban Read More
The letter argues that any benefits are likely to be heavily outweighed by unintended consequences through additional smoking, illicit trade and risky workarounds. I highlight a significant flaw in the original 2021 analysis supporting the flavour ban policy. The analysis assumed a gateway effect from vaping to smoking and that reductions in vaping would also reduce smoking. The reverse is more likely.
Letter to Canada’s Minister Saks against a vape flavour ban Read More
Response to a Danish proposal to limit nicotine in pouches to 9mg per pouch. I argue this is too low to compete with cigarettes and likely to lead to unintended consequences.
Denmark consultation on nicotine content of pouches Read More
A nicotine limit of around 20 milligrams per pouch should be set to start with and lowered only if a market survey shows harmful unintended consequences are likely to be negligible or minor and acceptable. In is not inherently more cautious to set a lower limit.
Regulating nicotine pouches Read More
Banning e-cigarettes does not eliminate the product from the country; it shows irresponsibility on the part of the government.
Without regulation, Congress hands over control of vaping to criminal networks Read More
Why is there a demand for nicotine? The demand derives from a simple proposition: For some people, nicotine use makes them feel or function better. Looking out to 2040, we should see the demand for nicotine as robust and resilient. The demand for any particular way of taking it is much more fluid.
We should celebrate ‘realists’ and beware of ‘idealists.’ Idealists do well in the rhetorical world of goal setting, aspirations and optics while realists do better in the real world. The problem is that the idealists obstruct the realists.
Purity At All Costs: The Firebreak Read More
ETHRA response to EU member state Health Ministers promoting flavour bans
ETHRA letter to European Health Ministers Read More