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Harry’s blog 57: Snus won’t rot your teeth, but watch out for truth decay
April 16, 2018
Anti-tobacco harm reductionists spend an awful lot of time claiming those who support tobacco harm reduction are simply the lackeys and stooges of Big Tobacco. But the truly insidious nature of mo...
Harry’s blog 56: A marathon not a sprint
April 8, 2018
It is no shock that when science and politics don’t coincide, then politics will win the day – and in Australia, it was unlikely that the MPs on the enquiry committee would go against the governme...
Harry’s blog 55: Will somebody please stop thinking about the children?
March 26, 2018
So with visions of abstinence shattered, the next level approach has been to deal with the adverse consequences to those in the orbit of the drinker, smoker or drug user. Aside from outright alcoh...
Harry’s blog 54: Lies, damn lies and public health misinformation
March 19, 2018
Researchers analysed data from 1,736 adults: about 85% said nicotine is what causes people to want to keep smoking, while 53% said they believed nicotine causes most of the cancer related to smoki...
‘Oh what a lovely war’ – on reason itself
March 14, 2018
The reason this sprang to mind was the constant references to war made by the tobacco control zealots who were present at the conference. This being reminiscent of scenes in the film showing the d...
Harry’s blog 52: Leave them kids alone
March 5, 2018
In the main, the aim has been neither to educate nor inform, but simply to shock teenagers into abstention. Some years ago, I wrote a book called ‘Shooting Stars; drugs, Hollywood and the movies...
Harry’s blog 51: Could the goalposts shift?
Feb. 20, 2018
http://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(17)30749-3/fulltext http://dailyvaper.com/2018/02/15/another-smoking-cessation-study-fails-to-understand-smoking-cessation/ The publication of this pap...
Harry’s blog 50: There is law on snus but is there justice?
Feb. 12, 2018
Those putting the case for snus included Gerry Stimson, Karl Lund, Lars Ramström and Martin Jarvis. The ban was defended by the UK, Norway, the European Parliament, the European Council and the Eu...