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Losing perspective? Update 30 April 2018 – JUUL: hold the moral panic Introducing a modern moral panic Over the weekend in an aside in my long blog about the sophistry of anti-vaping activists, I mentioned the unfolding moral panic about vaping and, especially, Juul e-cigarettes among teens (see the quote from the blog below […] 
This puts it nicely: Life is short and shorter for smokers. Just legalise vaping. That statement is a plain-speaking and hyper-concise dissenting report from Andrew Laming MP, one of two dissenting reports from Australia’s recently-completed parliamentary inquiry into vaping (The other dissenting report provides a model of clear, concise reasoning too, and, unusually, the […] 
An update from the World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Cape Town This is an update to an earlier post about the PMI-funded Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW). My main argument in that post can be summarised as: […] FDA’s Scott Gottlieb: “new comprehensive plan for tobacco and nicotine regulation” It came as a surprise, but today’s announcement from FDA on tobacco policy is huge. The video of Dr Gottlieb’s speech and background is available here and speech text here. The new Commissioner, Scott Gottlieb calls for FDA to develop a ‘new comprehensive […] What would he do? Given the confusion, anxiety and indignation that surrounds the role of the tobacco industry in tobacco harm reduction, I thought it would be interesting to imagine how a tobacco company chief executive might be thinking about vapour, heat-not-burn or other low risk products. Here’s my best shot – perhaps erring […] |
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