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Harry’s Blog 117: An Unholy Trinity
March 9, 2023
Michael Bloomberg is the WHO Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases and Injuries. He says in the WHO press release announcing the summit, “Noncommunicable diseases and injuries are leading...
Harrys’ blog 116: Unheard Voices
Feb. 2, 2023
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/puh2.58 The aim of this study was to map the number and locations of nicotine consumer organizations globally and describe their history, legal status, ...
Harry’s Blog 115: Invisible numbers – the WHO hides the evidence for tobacco harm reduction
Oct. 4, 2022
So, not invisible, but certainly worth highlighting again. And the figures make sober reading. The four major noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are cardiovascular diseases (heart disease and stroke)...
Harry’s blog 114: The Big Tobacco Control playbook
Aug. 1, 2022
Organisations have been founded, professional careers and reputations built, and millions of research dollars acquired based on the immutable division between the devils of Big Tobacco with their ...
Prohibition of non-combustible nicotine products in Mexico
June 9, 2022
Commercialization of ENDS has always been illegal in Mexico, but in 2015 the Supreme Court ruled that their prohibition is unconstitutional, motivating a lukewarm legislative process to regulate t...
Harry’s blog 113: The Human(ity) Factor
March 29, 2022
They “attacked the idea of treatment because of its doctor focus and in general the public health movement from the 1970s saw abstinence through self-control as the answer not medicine”. I would a...
Harry’s blog 112. Tobacco control and the wrath of God
Nov. 17, 2021
What were the organisers thinking – that somehow a teenager would sneak a poster lauding the benefits of cigarettes past the judges?? A couple of days ago, it struck me that the basis of this rule...
sCOPe Livestream 8 - 12 November 2021
Sept. 16, 2021
Because of COVID, that plan was axed as most of us in Asia Pacific are still under lockdowns and restrictions on travel. However, we have decided to bring the plan to life via livestream that will...
Organizing the Tobacco Harm Reduction Community in the United States
Aug. 25, 2021
Electronic cigarettes have been in the marketplace for almost 20 years and current estimates are that worldwide users number close to 70 million. Many former cigarette smokers have benefitted from...