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Harry’s blog 82: Comment is free, but clearly fact-checking isn’t
Feb. 21, 2019
However, fair play, there is still much to be done to track company activities. Sadly, in the process, and no doubt assisted in their efforts by funding from Vital Strategies (itself a grantee of ...
Harry’s blog 81: Supping with the Devil
Feb. 1, 2019
This is exactly the same response I get when I say I am working within tobacco harm reduction on projects funded by the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World because of the link with Philip Morris. Th...
Harry’s blog 79: This above all: to thine own self be true
Jan. 7, 2019
https://antithrlies.com/2019/01/02/peer-review-of-charlotta-pisinger-et-al-u-copenhagen-public-health-a-conflict-of-interest-is-strongly-associated-with-tobacco-industry-favourable-results-indic...
Harry’s blog 78: The end of the beginning
Dec. 20, 2018
I have spent the past year working with an exemplary group of people to produce the first Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction report. The report was launched in Geneva in October, receiving i...
Harry’s blog 77: Between a hard rock and a soft face
Dec. 6, 2018
Sometime in the 1990s, the UK TV station Channel 4 conducted what was called A Citizens’ Jury concerning drugs. A group of 12 citizens were chosen to hear some actual evidence-based information ab...
Harry’s blog 76: When money talks, the truth walks
Nov. 27, 2018
Before you embark on this nefarious enterprise, make sure you have sufficient funds to deliver on all that follows. Make your message believable even if it is the opposite of the truth. To make so...
Harry’s blog 75: Getting grown up about nicotine
Nov. 19, 2018
Yet this didn’t stop the BBC having a sensible and interesting discussion about developments in the global alcohol market on its Radio 4 business programme, ‘The Bottom Line’. One of the station’s...
Harry’s blog 74: A charter for tobacco harm reduction?
Nov. 11, 2018
As readers of the Global State of THR might recall, this Declaration repeats many past global public health ‘health for all with nobody left behind’ aspirations that wither on the vine. But any ex...
Current troublesome issues in E-cigarette Policy, October 2018
Nov. 5, 2018
At this stage in our policy development, it appears that most tobacco control authorities recognize that e-cigarettes and related vapor products are almost sure to be far less hazardous than cigar...
Harry’s blog 73: Revelations about nicotine replacement therapy
Oct. 28, 2018
The results make interesting reading. Between 2012 and October 2018, there were 666 discrete adverse reactions reported regarding ten NRT products including six fatal adverse reactions. Note, and ...