Harry Shapiro
Harry’s blog 48: Warning! The cautionary principle could seriously damage your health
Jan. 30, 2018
The process of heating rather than burning tobacco results in significantly reduced levels of toxin release IQOS was likely to be acceptable to current smokers while, for a number of reasons, be ...
Harry’s blog 47: Does Big irredeemably mean Bad?
Jan. 22, 2018
The unwholesome reputation of these global enterprises means it is axiomatic that any research or charitable activity funded or underwritten wholly or partly by a relevant commercial interest is r...
Harry’s blog 46: It’s the smoke not the tobacco
Jan. 17, 2018
Lynn Kozlowski and various colleagues have written on the ethics and legality of withholding or distorting health informationhttps://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-016-3...
Harry’s blog 45: A CRUCial campaign from CRUK
Jan. 9, 2018
It’s very hard not to be rather smug about the overall UK response to tobacco harm reduction. It would be great to be able to report on the publication of ground-breaking reports from equivalent o...
Harry’s blog 44: Power to the People
Dec. 22, 2017
https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/WgsiQiEAABXB1KCS Similarly, the genesis of vaping was a consumer-led phenomenon driven by the concerns of smokers wishing to protect their health without ne...
Harry’s blog 42: The Truth Is Out There
Dec. 11, 2017
What is decidedly not normal practice is for criticism of a study to extend to personal attacks on the original author, declarations that the publishing journal and staff are biased and calling fo...
Harry’s blog 41: Read All About It!
Dec. 4, 2017
Yet health authorities here, by threatening to put people in prison for possessing nicotine, have in effect banned electronic cigarettes, which offer a much safer way for addicted smokers to get t...
Harry’s blog 40: Recovering from the addiction disease model
Nov. 27, 2017
But now, a more formal challenge has been established through the creation of an Addiction Theory Network (ATN) which launched this year in England. Leading lights of the ATN include UK Professors...
Harry’s blog 39: A future without fags?
Nov. 20, 2017
4. We anticipate that the faster decline in smoking since 2012 will not continue indefinitely. In part this is because the growth of e-cigarettes is now slowing. Data from ASH indicates that there...