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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...

Harry’s blog 38: Another Brick in the Wall

Nov. 13, 2017

Despite being early to introduce smoking bans and ratify the FCTC, Turkey had planned to allow the sale and production of SNP. However, on 17th October, the Turkish Minister of Finance announced t...

Harry’s blog 37: Where is the right Mann/WoMann for the job?

Nov. 6, 2017

This is an extract from his Wikipedia entry Mann was a pioneer in advocating combining public health, ethics and human rights. He theorized and actively promoted the idea that human health and hu...

Harry’s blog 36: WHO’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

Oct. 30, 2017

To read the letter in full, click here.The letter was dated 4th August, but only reached VL on 18th, the day before the 14-day threat period expired. On behalf of VL, Dr Karl Snaebjornsson wrote b...

Harry’s blog 35 – Land of the Rising Sum

Oct. 23, 2017

And it is the HNB products like IQOS that are stealing the march on what could already be termed ‘traditional’ e-cigarettes. A study from San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Healt...

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...