Harry Shapiro

Harry’s blog 13: 9 April

Feb. 18, 2017

A similarly dossier of 'dodgy' provenance is being promoted to the effect that e-cigarettes cause heart attacks. Leading the charge on this is Dr Stan Glanz who has declared that we now ...

Harry’s blog 12: 5 April

Feb. 18, 2017

The law would also regulate nicotine and non-nicotine e-cigarettes and e-liquid by: prohibiting sale, and supply in a public place, to under 18 year olds restricting sale via vending machines to ...

Harry’s blog 11: 27 March 2017

Feb. 18, 2017

One posted comment came from Richard Cranfield from US Health Works who made the insightful point that the FDA (and probably most other US public health agencies) have no interest in harm reductio...

Harry’s blog 10: 20 March 2017

Feb. 18, 2017

He takes as his lead, the tactics of Big Tobacco to counter all the robust and incontrovertible evidence dating back to the 1940s that smoking causes cancer. The facts about smoking — indisputable...

Harry’s blog 6: 18 February 2017

Feb. 18, 2017

The Canadian online watchdog Regulator.com conducted an interview with that rare species, the tobacco regulator prepared publicly to answer some serious questions about vaping laws. Facing up to p...

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 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...