It’s gonna happen – so roll with it! – Crazy Like A #COP7FCTC – Only our data is useful, heathens! – Vaping opponents face fire from every direction – MHRA Update Email #10: – Just a spoonful of sugar – E-Cigarettes are NOT a Form of Tobacco Use – Use of E-Cigs remains low among young people – E-Cig regulations in Luxembourg post TDP – A Billion Lives Aiming At WHO’s Stacked Deck – Smokers Keen to Break the Habit Get No Help From the WHO – Tobacco Harm Reduction Now – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest – Monday, 31 October 2016
The Absurdity Of Public Health In Two Responses – A New Website Dedicated to Advocacy: “Consumers For Advocacy” – Study: Americans believe lies about vaping – Roger Scruton on the WHO – Documentary “A Billion Lives” Targets FDA Regulations on Vaping – Government Strategies Threaten Smokers and Public Health
Do we need another 20 years? – WHO tobacco meeting – could the FCTC do something useful on vaping? – Independent Vape Industry Criticises Proposed New Advertising Restrictions – Vapers Helping Smokers to Quit – Director Aaron Biebert replies to my review of A Billion Lives – The sole motivation for smoking doesn’t have to be nicotine – E-Cigarettes Can’t Shake Their Reputation as a Menace – Vapor Shop Appreciation Day – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest – Wednesday, 2 November 2016
When lies come back to bite – ESRI figures and youth experimentation – Mascot Watch #32: Definition Of ‘Independent’ Edition – A proposal to ban vaping in public and spaces – Are People Dying Because Vaping Is Being Demonized? – Irrational Hostility Toward E-Cigarettes – Dr Michael Keane and Tom Elliott discuss the impact of e-cigarettes – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest – Thursday, 3 November 2016
Times Of Embarrassment – The Times newspaper apologizes to scientists for defaming article – Big Tobacco and Research – Miscounting Teen Perceptions of E-Cigarettes – A Toast to the WHO – For ’tis the sport to have the FDA Hoist with its own petard – Vaping does not help people stop smoking – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest – Friday, 4 November 2016
Mondays News at a glance:
87 per cent of UK councils are ignoring advice from PHE – Enfield, A Beacon In A Morass Of Local Insanity – Consistently inconsistent – Changing how YOUR Council sees vaping – The Shocking State of Local Authority Vaping Policy – #COP7FCTC – After all journalists were BANNED – Experts urge WHO to back THR strategies at CoP7 – A THR Expert Group to advise delegations – The war on what, exactly? – Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller – To vape or not to vape – Investigators Botch Study Results – What conflict of interest accusations really mean – Experts nicely “SLAM” lack of honest and relevant snus information from Sweden – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest – Monday, 7 November 2016
School playground smoking ban in public health plan – All Animals Aren’t Cows, All Tobacco Isn’t Cigarettes, And Surveys Aren’t Science – Potential cancer causing DNA mutations absent in vape tests – Let Me Help You With That – Greg Conley Interview: Fighting The Good Fight For U.S. Vapers – The real dangers and health risks of vaping – My Day At #COP7FCTC – British American Tobacco to test tobacco e-cigarette in Japan – E-cigarettes above Ebola? How the WHO lost the plot – Bill Godshall Update – The WHO versus the media – CTA: Changing how Your Council see Vaping
A Well-Deserved Award And Meeting Biebert – Meeting Asian Vapers – Marijuana is being legalised, now legalise vaping – Is the worm turning? – A Challenge for Vaping – ‘May’, ‘Might’, ‘Related’, ‘Suggest’, ‘Imply’ – Changing how YOUR Council sees vaping – Is Bristol Mayor relaxing ban on vaping at work? – A third of councils forcing vapers to use smoking shelters – E-cigarette use in public places – Ex “Winston Man” exposes corrupt science – Vaping Is a Gateway to Quitting – ECIV briefing on the WHO report on vaping – 70% of Filipinos favor vaping – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest – Wednesday, 9 November 2016
WHO’s anti-vaping scientific castle of cards toppled (updated) – Vaping, the route to a smokefree New Zealand – What is going wrong at the WHO FCTC? – Reporters Banned From Global Anti-Tobacco Conference – Changing how YOUR Council sees vaping – MHRA Update Email #11 – Britain must speak up for e-cigarettes – A Billion Lives Reaches India – WHO FCTC’s CoP7: A review across social media – The WHO’s war on e‑cigs – #FCTC: ‘Obsessive and paranoid secrecy’ – Is There a Silver Lining in a Dark Cloud? – Health inequalities and e-cigarettes – California hikes tobacco taxes – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest – Thursday, 10 November 2016
FDA to Shut Down Totally Wicked – Changing how YOUR Council sees vaping – Can Electronic Cigarettes Cause Cancer? – Don’t be fooled by the headlines – INNCO slides COP7 Addressing WHO? – Recognising Anti-Smoking Types – Summary of results for 2015 – Enhancing Tobacco Control in Africa and the Middle East – Association between electronic cigarette use and changes in quit attempts – Technology Will Save Millions of Chinese Lives – UN bullies confirm conspiracy – E-cigarette prohibition will be a huge mistake – COP7 drafts decisions – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest – Thursday, 11 November 2016