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Harry’s blog 5: 18 February 201712 February 2017
Feb. 11, 2017
Most of the expert criticism appears in personal blogs or online comment pieces, less often in the scientific journals themselves. But nevertheless thanks to the internet, it is 'out there&...
Momentum building to legalise nicotine for vaping in Australia.
Feb. 5, 2017
The idea of tobacco harm reduction and the huge public health benefits of making smoking obsolete are gaining traction. We have politicians now who are committed to pushing this forward and incre...
Harry’s blog 4: 6 February 2017
Jan. 22, 2017
After smoking for 25 years and torn between the urge to smoke and the knowledge about the damage, Hildebrand was finally able to find a way of quitting that both satisfied the craving for nicotine...
Harry’s blog 2: 22 January 2017
Jan. 22, 2017
Over the past 60 years, we have been told by seemingly unimpeachable sources that cannabis drives otherwise healthy people mad, that it is a gateway drug to heroin, that using LSD would bust up yo...
Harry’s blog 3: 29 January 2017
Jan. 22, 2017
Researchers comprehensively surveyed the rapidly increasing academic literature on e-cigarettes and found evidence that vaping is replacing—rather than encouraging—the smoking of tobacco cigarette...
Harry’s blog 1: 15 January 2017
Jan. 14, 2017
Like Gerry Stimson and Paddy Costall, I come from a drugs background and am now heading towards 40 years in the saddle with drugs charities, most recently as Director of Communications for DrugSco...
Why Academics Should Resist Pressure to Disengage with the Tobacco Industry
Sept. 27, 2016
The signatories’ concern is that the academics mere attendance, let alone participation, at this conference ‘could be detrimental to their own reputation and to the reputation of their affiliated ...