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Harry`s Blog 34: WHO’s health is it anyway?

Oct. 16, 2017

The position of Derek Yach, the FSFW Director is that the best way of dealing with smoking is for industry and public health to work together. He said, "I am deeply disappointed, therefore, b...

Harry`s Blog 33: Evidence and the long grass

Oct. 9, 2017

So politicians invariably act in accordance with the cautionary principle and if possible kick tricky policy issues into the long grass for somebody else to choke on. And one very tricky issue rig...

Remembering the Oft Forgotten

Oct. 2, 2017

Traditionally these groups have often not registered on the radar of smoking cessation campaigns, being seen as “too hard to reach”, or unlikely to engage. Many of the specialist services have als...

Gillian Golden, from the Irish Vape Vendors Association, on why you should attend the GFN Dialogue in Dublin

Sept. 29, 2017

However, with all of this international evidence available and even as more is emerging, public perceptions and policy seems to be heading in the opposite direction to what one would expect. Here ...

Harry`s Blog 32: Solid foundation, or castle made of sand?

Sept. 18, 2017

https://www.smoke-freeworld.org/The $80 million question is of course, independence. On its website, the organisation states “as established in the Foundation’s bylaws, PMI and the tobacco industr...

Harry`s Blog 31: Very low nicotine cigarettes or shit without the hit

Sept. 5, 2017

https://rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/negligible-evidence-of-radical-nicotine.html The history of reducing the psychoactive element from a product, the whole point of which is the psycho...

Banning e-cigarettes is no solution to the huge health burden of tobacco use in India

Aug. 29, 2017

Therefore, policies of the governments and other health regulators in India should create favourable conditions for reduction in tobacco use. A recent newspaper report suggests just the contrary! ...

Harry’s blog 29: 28 August

Aug. 28, 2017

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6626a1.htm http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/a-myth-that-wont-die-movies-cause-teen-smoking/article/2631562The other research item comes from the Journal o...

Harry’s blog 30: 15 August

Aug. 15, 2017

In the letter highlighted by Dr Michael Siegel, which should have been headlined ‘What planet is she on? Oh right’. Dr Enid Neptune wrote: "As a physician who treats patients devastated by to...

Harry’s blog 28: 7 August

Aug. 7, 2017

But even at this level of argument there are problems. The big one is that if America’s 38 million smokers are faced with a product that doesn’t deliver much of the reason for smoking, they simply...