Harry Shapiro

Harry’s blog 7: 26 February 2017

Feb. 18, 2017

Lead investigator Dr Gina Kruse from Harvard Medical School, Boston said, "Smokers with asthma, COPD, or cardiovascular disease probably use e-cigarettes for the same reasons as other adults:...

Harry’s blog 8: 6 March 2017

Feb. 18, 2017

And this same nonsense is being inflicted on the world of e-cigarettes. The American Heart Association are claiming that vaping causes severe strokes and poses a higher risk of severe strokes than...

Harry’s blog 15: 24 April

Feb. 18, 2017

This is one of the very real potential problems with a legal, regulated market in drugs. Whatever the merits of the idea, if it ever happened, it is almost inevitable that the bar would be set ver...

Harry’s blog 5: 18 February 201712 February 2017

Feb. 11, 2017

  Most of the expert criticism appears in personal blogs or online comment pieces, less often in the scientific journals themselves. But nevertheless thanks to the internet, it is 'out there&...

Harry’s blog 3: 29 January 2017

Jan. 22, 2017

Researchers comprehensively surveyed the rapidly increasing academic literature on e-cigarettes and found evidence that vaping is replacing—rather than encouraging—the smoking of tobacco cigarette...

Harry’s blog 2: 22 January 2017

Jan. 22, 2017

Over the past 60 years, we have been told by seemingly unimpeachable sources that cannabis drives otherwise healthy people mad, that it is a gateway drug to heroin, that using LSD would bust up yo...

Harry’s blog 4: 6 February 2017

Jan. 22, 2017

After smoking for 25 years and torn between the urge to smoke and the knowledge about the damage, Hildebrand was finally able to find a way of quitting that both satisfied the craving for nicotine...

Harry’s blog 1: 15 January 2017

Jan. 14, 2017

Like Gerry Stimson and Paddy Costall, I come from a drugs background and am now heading towards 40 years in the saddle with drugs charities, most recently as Director of Communications for DrugSco...