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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 ...
Harry's Blog #67: The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle
Aug. 23, 2018
Now looking at that line-up, the average viewer would expect the campaigner to rail against the report, accuse MPs of being ‘nobbled’ by Big Tobacco and generally attack any idea that e-cigarettes...
Harry’s blog 66: Not really a JUUL in the crown
Aug. 14, 2018
There are so many ways that a teenager determined to vape on a JUUL could find to skirt around any tech system like this and if, with each (no doubt) well-publicised workaround, the company kept h...
Harry’s blog 65: . For fake’s sake, stop lying about vaping
Aug. 2, 2018
But the MP’s report gives this summary definition of fake news; “There are many potential threats to our democracy and our values. One such threat arises from what has been coined ‘fake news’, cre...
Harry’s blog 63: Time to deliver on tobacco harm reduction
July 10, 2018
Taking time out from the intellectual tour de force that is a Dan Brown novel, (Me? Jealous?), I turned my attention to Time to Deliver the recent WHO status report on how member states are doing ...