Gerry Stimson
Statement on today´s publication of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Report on e-cigarettes
Aug. 26, 2014
The WHO recommendations will do more harm than good, ironically protect cigarette sales, and do little to decrease the avoidable burden of non-communicable diseases.What is needed is light touch r...
UK Public Health Doctors and e-cigarettes – why this matters
Jan. 18, 2014
Many public health experts have in the past been strong supporters of harm reduction for illicit drugs. Indeed it was brave public health experts in a number of UK cities who took the reputation...
European Parliament votes against proposal to regulate e-cigarettes as medicines
Oct. 13, 2013
After months of politicking among MEPs in Brussels, the proposal in the Tobacco Products Directive to treat nicotine containing products (electronic cigarettes) under medicine regulations was thro...
Public health call for European ban on snus to be lifted
Sept. 29, 2013
What is so dismal about the Tobacco Products Directive is that it is so unambitious. The European Commission’s own impact assessment is that the total TPD package will only reduce tobacco consumpt...
Costs and burdens of medicines regulation for e-cigarettes
Sept. 22, 2013
E-cigarettes are the big consumer led public health revolution. E-cigarettes have been widely adopted despite neglect – and indeed antipathy – from public health leaders. The government mindset sh...
Letter to MEPs on the EU Parliament ENVI Committee
May 23, 2013
Declaration of interest I am a public health social scientist formerly of Imperial College London where I ran a major research centre on social and epidemiological aspects of addiction; I am a v...