When I was in Australia, my very good friend Dr Alex Wodak took me to one side and, in his typically low key, gentle manner, berated me for my attack on public health prompted by Ron Dworkin’s article on how public health messaging has taken on the mantle of moral crusading (see Blog 83). Alex pointed out all the good that public health has done (...) Read More
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When I was in Australia, my very good friend Dr Alex Wodak took me to one side and, in his typically low key, gentle manner, berated me for my attack on public health prompted by Ron Dworkin’s article on how public health messaging has taken on the mantle of moral crusading (see Blog 83). Alex pointed out all the good that public health has done in improving health in many different areas, not least in tobacco control.
I, along with other colleagues from Knowledge-Action-Change, have just returned from Australia on a trip to showcase the Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction report and to support our
...This blog unashamedly takes its title from a very interesting article by Ronald Dworkin who is an American anaesthesiologist, teaches political philosophy at George Washington University and is a
...I am a big fan of The Guardian; its editorial positioning lines up with my left-liberal views and I have been a regular reader of its articles for many years. Recently it has taken up
...The celebrity chef and healthy food activist Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall interviewed a director who
...Debunking common myths and misconceptions about teens and vaping - separating the facts from the scare stories
Put yourselves in the shoes of a parent (if you're not already one). You read in the papers about a teenage vaping epidemic. There's a good chance you're one of the many people in the UK who think vaping is just as bad as smoking, and you've already been told that electronic cigarettes are a gateway to smoking cigarettes.
The natural reaction is panic, and for
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As I see it, currently the Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) and e-cigarette policy scene continues
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Keeping up to date with the proceedings of the World Conference on Tobacco or Health, in Cape
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In the Orwell classic Animal Farm there was a binary notion that the animals lived by
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Significant progress has been made in reducing smoking prevalence
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