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Tobacco Control Research: A Tale of Two Delphi Groups
Sept. 9, 2015
The method that Nutt and colleagues used in this study was a continuation of earlier work in which they had used the approach of Multi-Criterion Decision Analysis (a form of the Delphi technique i...
Anti-vaping campaigners are a threat to public health
Aug. 25, 2015
Re-posted from politics.co.uk with permission It found that vaping is extremely successful at helping smokers quit cigarettes. And they are used almost exclusively by former smokers – dispelling...
Is New Zealand ready for consumer-driven quit smoking programmes?
July 17, 2015
New Zealand’s once world-leading tobacco control programme has succeeded at bringing adult smoking prevalence down to 18%. Smoking among Māori adults has reduced — but at a slower rate to 39%. But...
When Public Health Harm Reduction Becomes Public Health Harm Promotion
June 22, 2015
The argument for such strident action seems to be that e-cigarettes are serving to renormalize smoking. For anybody seeking to promote evidence based public policy that anxiety, and the interventi...
Welcome Address & Closing Remarks: Global Forum on Nicotine
June 5, 2015
It is common knowledge that my personal experience, and some painful memories, sparked off my journey towards creating the electronic technology, which I was eventually able to patent as the elect...
Reliving History: How the Tobacco Wars Became the Vapor Wars
June 2, 2015
The 'tobacco wars' go back to the 1970's and early 80’s. The tobacco industry, dominated by cigarette manufacturers was a powerful lobby and we in the public health community were n...
On the threat to vapers and vaping in Sweden
March 11, 2015
The ruling on the MPA position, on 5th March, confirms the prohibition of any sales of nicotine containing e-cigs, or nicotine containing refill fluids, without them being licensed as a medical pr...
Impact of Flavor Descriptors on Youth Interest in Electronic Cigarettes - 2
March 9, 2015
Glantz and Popova raise a methodological issue regarding our study, focusing on the use of a single item to assess product interest. While multi-item scales can often be useful, or superior, it is...
Impact of Flavor Descriptors on Youth Interest in Electronic Cigarettes - 1
March 7, 2015
Concerns about initiation of e-cigarette use by nonsmoking teens have focused on the expected and assumed appeal of flavors. It is important to replace assumptions with data. Our study shows that ...
MOVE Campaign – Medical Organisations supporting Vaping and E-Cigarettes
Feb. 9, 2015
In Spain, powerful medical organizations have been the architects of an aggressive misinformation campaign against electronic cigarettes, leading to the public belief that using e-cigarettes is mo...