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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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: […] What about the war on disease and premature death? They just aren’t the same thing. Tobacco control activists and academics are gathering in Cape Town for the World Conference on Tobacco or Health 2018 (#WCTOH2018). High on the agenda is the role of the tobacco industry and how to fight it (e.g. see […] For some, it would be better to waste a billion dollars Go straight to letter (PDF) or cover note and letter Update January 2018: reply to this letter from Dr Derek Yach So, a big tobacco company puts up $1 billion over twelve years to fund a foundation with an objective “to accelerate […] |
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