Showing posts with label vaping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vaping. 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 ...
Tuesday, 15 August 2017

Your caring, sharing NHS at its most cruel

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I know the term 'health fascism' is pretty polemical and intended to shock. But the truth is that increasingly public health 'c...
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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...
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, 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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Thursday, 28 April 2016

The new vaping regulations are wrong. We shouldn't introduce them next month.

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**** I could turn this post into something of a rant about the iniquity of the EU and all its works. After all the new vaping regulations ar...
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...
Saturday, 27 February 2016

Much public health campaigning is about snobbery not concern for people's wellbeing

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**** Whenever you read a piece - most typically in The Guardian or Independent although sometimes these days in any media going - that talks...
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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, 28 June 2015

"The days of the traditional cigarette are numbered" - but only if we let vaping succeed

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**** The e-cig - vaping - is a game changer. Here's the the senior tobacco analyst at Euromonitor : “Up until now there has been no...
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Thursday, 25 June 2015

Quote of the day - from ASH on vaping and renormalising smoking

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**** This just about sums up the evidence on vaping and renormalising smoking - the biggest stick used to beat up on vapers: "There a...
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Wednesday, 10 June 2015

Public health campaigners must want smokers to die

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You've all seen the news reports about the Welsh government's proposed ban on using e-cigs in enclosed public places - the same ...
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Tuesday, 16 September 2014

On our relationship with public health...

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**** In an excellent piece on vaping and e-cigs , Clive Bates describes our relationship with public health - or rather public health'...
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, 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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Thursday, 20 February 2014

Why we shouldn't be banning vaping

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**** Via the estimable Dick Puddlecote comes the report on this piece of research: Safety evaluation and risk assessment of electroni...
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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