Clive Bates from The E-Cigarette Summit U.S. 2018
My presentation from the E-cigarette Summit (US) 30 April 2018 – video (top) and PowerPoint slides (below).
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April 9th, 2018  Losing perspective? Update 30 April 2018 – JUUL: hold the moral panic Introducing a modern moral panicOver 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 for background). I want to add to this with some views on appropriate journalistic inquiry and suggest a line of sceptical questioning a credible journalist could use. >> read the full post April 6th, 2018
This puts it nicely:
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 dissent came from the committee chairman, signalling a welcome fracture in Australia’s political support for prohibition) Though short, it is basically right and sufficient: no-one is trying to live forever; everyone is trying to enjoy the life they have; some people like the drug nicotine or don’t want to quit enough to stop using it; smokers die earlier because of smoke; vaping avoids the smoke problem and does not appear to create new material problems; so it follows that vaping should not be illegal. In fact, it should be encouraged. It really is that simple. The dissenting reports prompt me to raise the issue of simplicity versus sophistry in the debate over tobacco harm reduction. This has bugged me for years. Vaping and tobacco harm reduction is basically simple. The arguments raised against it by anti-vaping opponents are laden with sophistry.
This blog looks at ten forms of sophistry used by anti-vaping activists to fabricate and fuel faux controversy. It is longer than I would like, but the subject is far from exhausted. Please dip in. March 20th, 2018  Out there, on your side – Louise Ross puts the public back into public health As she retires a hero to many in the field of tobacco harm reduction and public health, Louise Ross has penned this blog, which starts below… >> read the full post March 13th, 2018  Experts send a message to Congress – do the right thing on vaping and pass the Cole-Bishop language Just out, a statement from the National Tobacco Reform Initiative – a group of senior figures and experts in public health and tobacco control – supporting a substantial change to the legislation governing vaping products in the United States. This statement supports what is known as the Cole-Bishop rider to the Agricultural Appropriations Bill (the rider is at section 753). This language has the following main effects:
It is very important that this passes as it solves part of the problem of establishing a proportionate regulatory system for low-risk products like vapor. Here is the statement from NTRI and its membership. |
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