Harry Shapiro
Harry’s blog 38: Another Brick in the Wall
Nov. 13, 2017
Despite being early to introduce smoking bans and ratify the FCTC, Turkey had planned to allow the sale and production of SNP. However, on 17th October, the Turkish Minister of Finance announced t...
Harry’s blog 37: Where is the right Mann/WoMann for the job?
Nov. 6, 2017
This is an extract from his Wikipedia entry Mann was a pioneer in advocating combining public health, ethics and human rights. He theorized and actively promoted the idea that human health and hu...
Harry’s blog 36: WHO’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
Oct. 30, 2017
To read the letter in full, click here.The letter was dated 4th August, but only reached VL on 18th, the day before the 14-day threat period expired. On behalf of VL, Dr Karl Snaebjornsson wrote b...
Harry’s blog 35 – Land of the Rising Sum
Oct. 23, 2017
And it is the HNB products like IQOS that are stealing the march on what could already be termed ‘traditional’ e-cigarettes. A study from San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Healt...
Harry`s Blog 34: WHO’s health is it anyway?
Oct. 16, 2017
The position of Derek Yach, the FSFW Director is that the best way of dealing with smoking is for industry and public health to work together. He said, "I am deeply disappointed, therefore, b...
Harry`s Blog 33: Evidence and the long grass
Oct. 9, 2017
So politicians invariably act in accordance with the cautionary principle and if possible kick tricky policy issues into the long grass for somebody else to choke on. And one very tricky issue rig...
Harry`s Blog 32: Solid foundation, or castle made of sand?
Sept. 18, 2017
https://www.smoke-freeworld.org/The $80 million question is of course, independence. On its website, the organisation states “as established in the Foundation’s bylaws, PMI and the tobacco industr...
Harry`s Blog 31: Very low nicotine cigarettes or shit without the hit
Sept. 5, 2017
https://rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/negligible-evidence-of-radical-nicotine.html The history of reducing the psychoactive element from a product, the whole point of which is the psycho...
