I did a Twitter chat with the Campaign for Safer Alternatives on the typical objections raised to tobacco harm reduction. For those interested in the responses but who missed the live chat or got as confused as I did in trying to follow threaded answers, here is the chat as it unfolded over 15 […]
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Sources: Office for National Statistics (UK). Smoking habits in the UK and its constituent countries, 2016. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, National Drug Strategy Household Survey, 2016. Updates: New Zealand moves / Media interviews Update: two new submissions (available at Committee submissions page #336) Clive Bates, Colin Mendelsohn. Do vapour products reduce […] Nobody knew nicotine policy could be so complicated Earlier in May, eleven Democrat senators appeared to be channelling talking points from the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids when they wrote a letter to the incoming FDA Commissioner Dr Scott Gottlieb. Together with my co-conspirator, Sally Satel from the American Enterprise Institute, we have […] Tom Miller: “public policy through facts and science rather than ideology” On 17 November 2016, the Iowa Attorney General, Tom Miller, gave a speech at the E-cigarette Summit 2016 (with biography) on e-cigarettes examining the claims of anti-vaping activists, and their scientific, ethical and legal basis. The full text of the […] DANGER: E-cigarette ‘gateway’ studies may expose gullible readers to reputational harm Sometimes studies appear that can create the appearance of the discovery of a ‘gateway effect’ – the idea that vaping causes young people to progress to smoking. Update: a ‘gateway’ study has just been published (13 June) and lots of dupes have […] |
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