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An empty and feeble critique misses its target and adds nothing This paper turned up in my weekly search of PubMed. Invalidity of an Oft-Cited Estimate of the Relative Harms of Electronic Cigarettes. Eissenberg T, Bhatnagar A, Chapman S, Jordt SE, Shihadeh A, Soule EK. Am J Public Health. 2020 Feb;110(2):161-162. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2019.305424. […] 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 […] This year’s Stoptober campaign encourages smokers to try vaping – bravo! Update 24 September: Cancer Research UK says its hasn’t “been prevented from doing anything by the ASA that we are aware of, so don’t know why this story appeared” and PHE ads were still running on TV last night. So please treat […] Positive… The Department of Health (UK/England) today released its tobacco control plan for England: Towards a smoke-free generation: tobacco control plan for England (PDF) The embrace of vaping and other low-risk alternatives to smoking runs through the text. This is probably the first significant government policy paper anywhere that recognises and pursues the […] A remarkably self-regarding letter is published in The Times (London) today. The writers are reacting with hostility to the outstanding Royal College of Physicians report, Nicotine without smoke: tobacco harm reduction, and the very positive editorial in The Times (Vaping Vindicated) that followed its launch. In my view, their letter is truly dreadful, but it […] |
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