Harry Shapiro
Harry’s Blog 103: Tobacco Harm Reduction from A to A
Aug. 19, 2020
First, here’s what we cannot do – legislate cigarettes out of existence. Some rosy prohibitionist vision of the future won’t wash. There is too much money at stake, not just for multi-national tob...
Harry's Blog #102: How to Make a Public Health Disaster Worse: a 5-Point Guide
July 24, 2020
Moreover, a BMJ article suggested that the 2005 Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) has done little to accelerate declines in smoking in those countries which had been seeing declines w...
Harry's Blog #101: The New Colonials
June 3, 2020
These agencies are sweeping broader public health issues overboard in pursuit of a rabid obsession with Big Tobacco interference in the domestic tobacco policies of mainly lower-and-middle income ...
Harry's Blog #100: The virus of propaganda
May 19, 2020
Professor Alex Stevens from Kent University has written an article on the proposition that it is naïve to imagine the scientific and medical advice, given to politicians about COVID-19, is simply ...
Harry's Blog #99: Fear, loathing and COVID-19
April 6, 2020
Already in recent years much damage has been done by doctors, public health officials and the lapdogs slavering after Bloomberg cash in order to increase uncertainty and confusion among smokers a...
Harry's blog 98: Science and Sense beat Smears and Propaganda 5-0 (after lots of extra time)
March 5, 2020
In his book Velvet Glove, Iron Fist: A History of Anti-smoking (referring back to the time when life was so much easier for anti-tobacco activists – Goodies vs Baddies), Chris Snowdon quoted arch ...
Harry’s Blog 97: What if the angels are wrong?
Jan. 30, 2020
Roberto was making the point that in many western countries, people tend to believe messages from public health because since the late 19th century, public health has delivered in terms of impro...
Harry’s Blog 96: The WHO reneges on universal health rights for all
Jan. 21, 2020
“The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social con...
Harry’s blog 95: Flavour bans are fruitless
Nov. 13, 2019
On 11th September that bastion of common sense – the Trump administration - announced a projected ban on all e-liquid flavours except tobacco (and possibly mint, menthol and wombat). Worth noting ...
Harry’s blog 94: Extinguish Rebellion
Oct. 14, 2019
They campaign, make representations to politicians, run websites, social media, exchange and provide information and are support networks for people wanting to make the switch away from smoking. A...