Showing posts with label e-cigs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label e-cigs. Show all posts
Thursday, 27 July 2017

Vested interests will always use regulation to protect that interest

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From Dick Puddlecote a shocking example of a private business using regulatory pressure to protect its private interests: The website for V...
Monday, 16 May 2016

Smoking cessation: it stopped being about health years ago

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**** In 2003 Hon Lik registered the patent for the first modern electronic cigarette since when millions of people across the world have sto...
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Sunday, 15 February 2015

Questions to which the answer is "no": "Are e-cigs a gateway drug"

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**** This should be seen as brilliant - only 4% of US teens now report having smoked. This is a dramatic switch and the reason for it is v...
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Thursday, 5 June 2014

In which I help NHS England with the answers to questions about eicigs

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**** NHS England seem to be having some difficulty answering questions about e-cigs. Their latest effort is described as (thanks to Red H...
Thursday, 29 May 2014

Public health - might some truth be getting though at last?

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**** One swallow doesn't make a summer. But there are two current news items that suggest that the truth is gradually seeping through ...
Thursday, 3 April 2014

Plain packs, e-cig bans and the triumph of ignorance

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Today marks the publication of the Chantler Review into standardised packaging for cigarettes, which follows the proposal from the Welsh ...
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Thursday, 27 March 2014

Health Fascism - the new normal for public health

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**** Today marks a new low - we've got used to the endless dribble of health scare stories in the media but there has been a shift. Wh...
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Monday, 17 February 2014

An e-cig tale from Bradford Councillor Imran Khan - sometimes I despair

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**** I was in the local paper being quoted about e-cigs. This followed the awful decision of West Yorkshire Metro to ban vaping on buses a...
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Sunday, 26 January 2014

Science doesn't support EU proposed restrictions on e-cigs

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**** The New Scientist reports that: Fifteen prominent scientists who have investigated the health consequences of electronic cigare...
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Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Let's not let a few facts get in the way of our anti-smoking, eh?

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**** We should know better than to wander onto groups and forums - even on the shiny business place that is Linked In. But resistance is f...
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Tuesday, 19 March 2013

Doing my bit for sanity on e-cigs..

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**** My question to Council next week: Bradford Council leader David Green will be asked to clarify the authority’s policy on smokin...
Tuesday, 12 February 2013

So the BMA prefers people to die...

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**** Or so says its nannying fussbucket in chief, Vivienne Nathanson: "I would either take them off the shelves or I would very h...
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Saturday, 9 February 2013

Wanting an e-cig ban: is it tax revenue, ignorance or stupidity?

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**** Here's a reference to a literature review in the journal, Addiction, on the subject of e-cigs: ...“removing e-cigarettes fr...
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Thursday, 10 January 2013

You want real evil? A comment on the idea of banning e-cigs

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**** Absolutely: You want real evil? What's truly evil is attempting to deny people addicted to a profoundly damaging substance the...
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Thursday, 15 November 2012

They do not give off smoke and contain no tobacco....

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**** ...but they are not popular with the nannying fussbuckets : Dr Vivienne Nathanson, head of science and ethics at the British Medic...
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Saturday, 27 October 2012

So why do ASH - and the EU - and the WHO - want e-cigs banned?

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**** Perhaps it's because they're not controlled by their friends in the pharmaceuticals industry? Whatever, it certainly isn'...
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Friday, 7 September 2012

Lies, damned lies and public health

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**** It beats me why those promoting public health campaigns feel the need to (how do I put this) make stuff up. I understand that some ...
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Sunday, 5 August 2012

Nannying Fussbucket of the week: Simon Burns thinks e-cigs are harmful

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**** Apparently we're about to see action on e-cigs - the health minister, Simon Burns says : ELECTRONIC cigarettes face a crackdo...
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Saturday, 26 May 2012

The end of risky smoking (but not if the anti-smoking industry has its way)

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**** To a certain extent the battle over tobacco covers up a profound change - albeit one that the anti-smoking fanatics are opposing. The...
Wednesday, 21 September 2011

How could a smoking ban review be acceptable to smokers and non-smokers?

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**** A while ago the Freedom to Choose blog posted a 'loneliness' trilogy that reported on the experiences of smokers - especiall...
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