The Royal College of Physicians have just released their new report called Passive Smoking and Children and have already come under fire from Michael Siegel over at Rest of the Story and Chris Snowdon at Velvet Glove (writing about this BBC report on the report). This report was particularly discouraging to me because the RCP […]
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Who could argue against this? Nobody is in favour of providing nicotine in any form to minors. What I find very odd about this is that though the FDA’s new requirements bring in some changes this particular one, though it is already in place, seems to make the headlines (as in this one at The […]
I would like to thank Bill Godshall from Smokefree Pennsylvania for letting me post his email regarding his experiences at Vapefest 2010. It is long but it is worth reading. -PLB This past Saturday morning I drove to Vapefest 2010 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Fredricksburg, VA to attend the world’s largest gathering (so […]
A recent post by Stanton Peele on how negative images of alcohol use might correlate with negative use of alcohol had me thinking about the difficulty in crafting public harm reduction messages in general. It is difficult to find any positive media images of smoking; almost all feature either stressed unhappy individuals or those suffering […]
Many hold the New York Times up as a worthy model for good news reporting and whether this is true I am not sure but what I do know is that when it comes to tobacco and health, this paper has an anti-tobacco stance that no concerns for health can possibly dislodge. Today, and ironically […]
Half of this post is based on comments forwarded to me by Carl Phillips after I alerted him to this typical yet still outrageous press release from the inimitable yet wholly dispensible John Banzhaf (and I in turn have James Dunworth to thank for bringing it to my attention). I do have active tobacco alerts […]
A few days ago, Trinidad and Tobago’s Newsday reported on the arrival on their shores of the e-cigarette. It was, without a doubt, one of the more straightforward apolitical reports on ecigarettes in the news I have read anywhere. Just the facts and none of the moralizing (though some of it does read a little […]
