Showing posts with label smoking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smoking. Show all posts
Tuesday, 15 October 2019

Quote of the day - how bad science and unquestioning journalism might just kill people

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From an excellent review of the awful, ignorant moral panic over vaping in the USA: Journalists' failure to do so during debates over ...
Sunday, 25 November 2018

When misusing the precautionary principle kills - the case of vaping bans

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Vaping will be banned in smoke-free areas, although 'this is a precautionary measure' as there is no robust evidence of harm from ...
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Wednesday, 18 October 2017

Judgmental, immoral fussbuckets - an everyday tale of NHS management

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This is, quite simply, wrong. Not wrong as in 'incorrect' but wrong as in 'immoral and indefensible': Patients who smoke ...
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Wednesday, 20 September 2017

East Riding CCG: Nasty judgemental fussbucketing nannies.

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You're in pain. You've already waited an age for the operation. And then you get a letter from some nameless, faceless official of t...
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Friday, 30 June 2017

(Depressing) Quote of the day....

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Leg Iron on the smoking ban - and what's to come : I still laugh like a hyena with a nitrous oxide overdose at every business out there...
Wednesday, 10 May 2017

It's time to close down public health and get our lives back

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It has to stop . There is no basis in protecting health. It is quite simply driven by the mission of public health to treat smokers as pari...
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Monday, 1 May 2017

Voluntary bans - smoking and the power of tutting!

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Oxford City Council has just rolled out its 'voluntary ban' on smoking in children's play areas across all of its 87 such places...
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Wednesday, 26 October 2016

Vaping in Bradford. Why the Council voted down a more liberal approach.

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Last week Labour and Liberal Democrat councillors voted down a motion I submitted to Bradford Council calling for a 'vaping friendly cit...
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Monday, 10 October 2016

Scribblings: museums, why Trump, slavery and fussbucketry (plus an odd airport)

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First a cheat in that it's not a scribbling but I had to share it somewhere - the story of Denver International Airport's embracing ...
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Saturday, 27 August 2016

Scribblings III: Star Wars, flags, skateboarding, free speech and not blaming smoking

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Worse than smoking! We begin with the weird as Grandad encounters reports of the Star Wars obsessive - this my friends is in a space...
Saturday, 20 August 2016

Scribblings II: On pubs, smoking bans, perdigree dogs, political donations and Brexit

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We're back with another dose of great writing from Martin Scriblerus bloggers . I did get called out for calling it 'scribblings...
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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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Saturday, 2 April 2016

Quote of the day - "Just get off our backs"

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**** From Clive Bates (via Dick Puddlecote): "You told us to quit smoking. You taxed the pants off us; you've bullied us with your...
Monday, 11 January 2016

So ads for vaping don't 'normalise' smoking - no surprise (except to nannying fussbuckets)

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**** We know that the public health fraternity don't know the first thing about advertising , let alone understand how it works. Despite...
Saturday, 9 January 2016

The whole point about vaping and harm reduction

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**** So we're sat in a cafe in Bradford having something to eat. Outside the cafe there's a little gathering, about ten or twelve ...
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Thursday, 7 January 2016

In which the medical profession reminds us how monumentally stupid it is

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**** Seriously these doctors are utterly ignorant, they have not the first conception of human behaviour: Norway's biggest medical orga...
Sunday, 3 January 2016

The threat to working class culture is demonisation, denormalisation, temperance and prohibition not appropriation

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Let's start this with the (I'm sure pretty unsurprising) fact that I'm not in the slightest bit 'working class'. It...
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Tuesday, 25 August 2015

Sorry but smoking doesn't harm Gedling Council's reputation

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Gedling Borough Council (it's in Nottinghamshire and Labour-controlled, since you ask) is proposing the further demonisation and stig...
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Monday, 17 August 2015

Nannying fussbucketry of the day - cutting your nose off to spite your face

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**** Rory Stewart is a government minister in the environment department. Presented with the opportunity to take some cash off tobacco com...
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Tuesday, 7 July 2015

Banning smoking at mental health units. A rant at Bradford's health fascists.

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Bradford NHS Care Trust decided to ban smoking everywhere on its sites in Bradford . A BLANKET ban on smoking has come into force at ...
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