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Vaping nicotine facing a crisis in Australia
Oct. 15, 2020
Under proposed customs changes, vapers will no longer be able to import nicotine liquid into Australia for personal use from 1 January 2021. A fine of $220,000 will apply for attempts to do so. Fu...
Harry’s Blog 105: Sheer Heart Attack
Oct. 2, 2020
Next year, the European Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) is up for review. Politicians will have to decide if the TPD needs amending. An important part of that process will be consideration of the...
Harry’s Blog 104: Baptists and Bootleggers
Sept. 7, 2020
Hang on though. It was noticeable last year that when flavour bans were mooted in the USA alongside an outright ban in India, tobacco company share prices in those countries rose. You don’t need t...
Harry’s Blog 103: Tobacco Harm Reduction from A to A
Aug. 19, 2020
First, here’s what we cannot do – legislate cigarettes out of existence. Some rosy prohibitionist vision of the future won’t wash. There is too much money at stake, not just for multi-national tob...
Harry's Blog #102: How to Make a Public Health Disaster Worse: a 5-Point Guide
July 24, 2020
Moreover, a BMJ article suggested that the 2005 Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) has done little to accelerate declines in smoking in those countries which had been seeing declines w...
A Welcome Reprieve for Australian Vapers, but a Rocky Road Ahead
July 1, 2020
The new regulations proposed a complex pathway for legal importing, requiring 2 visits to the doctor, an online application to the Medicines Regulator, waiting for approval and importation by a me...
Harry's Blog #101: The New Colonials
June 3, 2020
These agencies are sweeping broader public health issues overboard in pursuit of a rabid obsession with Big Tobacco interference in the domestic tobacco policies of mainly lower-and-middle income ...
Harry's Blog #100: The virus of propaganda
May 19, 2020
Professor Alex Stevens from Kent University has written an article on the proposition that it is naïve to imagine the scientific and medical advice, given to politicians about COVID-19, is simply ...