Vaping is still at least 95% lower risk than smoking – debunking a feeble and empty critique
This paper turned up in my weekly search of PubMed. Invalidity of an Oft-Cited Estimate of the Relative Harms of […]
A critical review of an Australian anti-vaping polemic
Normally, I just ignore anything written by Professor Emeritus Simon Chapman, a retired academic and noisy tobacco control activist from
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Do not read this or discuss it and in no circumstances should you comment
A new discussion paper on e-cigarettes has come out in Australia. “Options to minimise the risks associated with the marketing
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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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Response to Professor Chapman’s blog about my views on e-cigarettes
Professor Simon Chapman of the University of Sydney has used his BMJ blog platform to mount a quite personalised attack
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The Worst Letter of 2014 – a review
The 13 December letter by Professors Glantz, McKee, Chapman and Daube published in The Lancet wins my prestigious Worst Letter of 2014 award. There now
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Turning the tables on public health – let’s talk about the risks *they* create
I’ve had enough of the one-sided conversation about the risks associated with e-cigarettes… poisons, gateways, renormalisation, fires, explosions, MRSA, pneumonia, dual
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Where is the humility? Where is the empathy?
With the approach of 2014 and New Year resolutions under negotiation, my thoughts and good wishes turn to all those
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