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Because you’re worth it – are there ideas from cosmetics regulation useful for e-cigarettes?
July 28, 2013
Can any more be done…? Well perhaps we can learn from the approach taken to regulating cosmetics in the European Union. Why look at cosmetics regulation? Similarities between cosmetics and e-cig...
Interview with Linda McAvan MEP – why doctor doesn’t always know best
July 26, 2013
{videobox}fbttYIgAuTE{/videobox} I’ve already given a view on what an incoherent piece of regulation is emerging from the European institutions - a gargantuan dog’s breakfast, and McAvan bears s...
Reasonable people saying sensible things about low-risk alternatives to smoking
July 25, 2013
Professor Michael Russell anticipated this as early as 1991. The late great Mike Russell, then of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Health Behaviour Unit at the Institute for Psychiatry was one...
The case for regulating e-cigarettes as medicines
July 10, 2013
It’s quite hard to actually find a coherent case for regulating e-cigarettes as medicines. Mostly those making the case show it can be done, but do not show it is the best thing to do or compare i...
We need to talk about the children – the gateway effect examined
June 19, 2013
This Huff Post article is typical of the casual expression of this concern: E-Cigarettes Gain Steam, But Health Experts Wary It Could Serve As ‘Gateway’ To Tobacco Smoking . Similar sentiments f...
10 reasons not to regulate e-cigarettes as medicines
June 19, 2013
as possible to switch. This type of regulation works against that. A limited authorised range of dull but perfectly safe medicialised products that no-one wants to use is worthless and counterprod...
Some truth about e-cigarette regulation and the ‘appalling’ F-grade presentation of the WHO
June 19, 2013
Mr Roberto Bertollini made a presentation at the EU workshop which was appalling. His presentation consisted in cherry-picking negative studies, studies that show that e-cigarettes are bad, a...
Are you being manipulated? The wisdom of the WHO examined…
June 19, 2013
Perhaps the most troubling contribution was a presentation with the title: Review of the scientific evidence on effectiveness of key measures to reduce smoking, with special reference to the re...
E-cigarettes are unregulated, right?
May 23, 2013
See what they did there…? It’s either medicines regulation or ‘unregulated’. We call this framing bias – and they were rightly criticised for it. But the idea persists that e-cigs are unregulate...