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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 ...
Harry’s blog 72: Heat and Burn
Oct. 18, 2018
Right at the front of the report it states very clearly that it was “Supported by an unsolicited grant from the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. The Foundation played no part in determining th...
Harry’s blog 71: No Fire, No Smoke but plenty of Heat
Oct. 8, 2018
Launch day was a huge success and a major step forward in the fight to gaining acceptance of tobacco harm reduction at the international level. The YouTube video link below will give you a taster ...
Harry's Blog #70: Are tobacco regulators Big Tobacco’s new best mates?
Sept. 25, 2018
Fear not dear shareholder because government legislators are covering the new product development and marketing spend so you won’t be out of pocket. In the wake of the moral panic over JUUL, the F...
Harry's Blog #69: No Fire, No Smoke: the Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction 2018 (GSTHR)
Sept. 11, 2018
The central message of the report is enshrined in the title – if you want to consume nicotine, but don’t light up a cigarette, there is no smoke, and if there is no smoke, the release of potential...
Harry's Blog #68: Tyranny is the Deliberate Removal of Nuance
Aug. 24, 2018
Greg Jacob was wholly sympathetic to the public health aims of the FCTC in trying to mitigate the worst effects of smoking through bans on ads and public smoking, health warnings on packaging and ...