Harry Shapiro

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...

Harry’s blog 29: 28 August

Aug. 28, 2017

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6626a1.htm http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/a-myth-that-wont-die-movies-cause-teen-smoking/article/2631562The other research item comes from the Journal o...

Harry’s blog 30: 15 August

Aug. 15, 2017

In the letter highlighted by Dr Michael Siegel, which should have been headlined ‘What planet is she on? Oh right’. Dr Enid Neptune wrote: "As a physician who treats patients devastated by to...

Harry’s blog 28: 7 August

Aug. 7, 2017

But even at this level of argument there are problems. The big one is that if America’s 38 million smokers are faced with a product that doesn’t deliver much of the reason for smoking, they simply...

Harry’s blog 27: 31 July

July 31, 2017

Of course we do not live in a perfect world; the FDA is majoring on the inherently flawed idea of reduced nicotine cigarettes Click here for some informed commentary on the subject https://www.sli...

Harry’s blog 26: 24 July

July 24, 2017

My impression has been of a monolithic body of anti-tobacco fanatics who wrap ENDS (the WHO term for e-cigarettes and other similar technologies) in the same fog of evil that envelops the issue of...

Harry’s blog 25: 17 July

July 16, 2017

Harm reduction as applied to the world of illegal/controlled drugs refers to specific policies, programmes and practices that aim to reduce the harms associated with the use of these drugs in peop...

Harry’s blog 24: 11 July

July 11, 2017

https://gfn.net.co/videos-2017 But while the main thrust of Ethan’s oration was to compare drug and tobacco harm reduction (THR) challenges, he did touch on some of the most important themes of th...

Harry’s blog 23: 3 July

July 3, 2017

But even the report in Reuters exposed a number of flaws in the study https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-health-teens-vaping-idUKKBN19H292 while further comments on the study can be found here http...

Harry’s blog 22: 26 June

June 26, 2017

  It’s going to be a long haul. One presenter joked that he could cross out 2016 from last years’ presentation and scribble n 2017. He may be crossing out for some time to come. It took maybe 20 ...