My response to the UK consultation on measures to control smoking and youth vaping

Article providing five-part advice to officials attending FCTC COP-10. Senior officials should approach COP10 with scepticism but not cynicism, with clarity about their national goals and with some tough questions about trade-offs, unintended consequences and evidence.

A critical appraisal of South Africa’s draft tobacco control legislation by Clive Bates, David Abrams, Ray Niaura and David Sweanor.

Write-up of European THR Advocates (ETHRA) input into future EU Tobacco Product Directive for the European Commission. Damian Sweeney and I were interviewed by Open Evidence.

The US Department of Health and Human Services is consulting on a new national smoking cessation framework. David Sweanor and I responded, making the case for tobacco harm reduction as the game-changing strategy.

Interview on the essentials of tobacco harm reduction: Клајв Бејтс: Алтернативите без чад имаат далеку помалку токсини од класичните цигари, Republika

The brief of amici curiae is filed in support of the Petition for writ of certiorari to the US Supreme Court made by Avail Vapor (a request for the Court to hear the substantive case). It covers seven main scientific arguments pertinent to the petition. Signed by David Abrams, Scott Ballin, Clive Bates, Martin Jarvis, Tom Miller, Ray Niaura, Steve Schroeder and David Sweanor.

his briefing gives an overview of the main problems with the US FDA’s approach to tobacco and nicotine: Briefing: FDA’s approach to tobacco and nicotine – a critical perspective

I make eight proposals for the tobacco industry to expedite its exit from the cigarette business and into smoke-free nicotine products.

24 public health experts respond to the Reagan-Udall Foundation evaluation of FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products and its policymaking and practice.

I make the case that tobacco harm reduction is an interim phase contingent on the great harm caused by cigarettes. To see clearly where we are heading in the longer term, we need to rethink nicotine as a recreational drug with relatively low levels of harm.

Press release: International experts reject vetoes and censorship and call for an open debate based on science to combat smoking in Spain.

There are distinct patterns repeated in the literature, including poor methodology, poor interpretation of results and, almost always, poor extrapolation from findings to policy. There are obvious biases and sometimes near-comical desperation to find fault in reduced-risk products. I provide a list of some of the most common flaws.

New Zealand plans extremely ambitious or reckless new laws, but has no plan to evaluate the impact. This is a short response to a Ministry of Health consultation on the proposed Smoking Tobacco Regime.