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Tobacco Control Advocates: Big Tobacco’s Useful Idiots

Source Madonna has spent her entire career tracking what the young are into. The objective of any corporation is first to survive, then to thrive. A decade ago, tobacco companies had to shift into non-combustibles to survive as nicotine alternative products were…

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Youth vaping study retracted after analysis errors affected results

A study examining why US teenagers start and continue vaping has been retracted after problems were found in its data analysis. The Journal of Adolescent Health says the flaws affected the results reported in the paper. The retraction was requested by both…

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Nicotine’s Terrifying Little Secret

What is keeping Bloomberg-funded activists and scientists awake at night and compelling them to lie? Health warning: This article may present information that is deemed offensive to individuals who prefer to live in a reality that coheres with their dogmatic preconceptions. A…

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French vape retailer trials selfie age checks as industry fights online sales ban

One of France’s largest online vape retailers has introduced compulsory selfie-based age checks for new customers, as the industry seeks to show internet sales can be kept out of minors’ hands without a blanket ban. Le Petit Vapoteur has required every new…

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OPINION: The EU Parliament doesn’t want a new nicotine tax law. But that’s not what really matters.

There’s nothing more annoying than writing an article that confidently states “either this thing will happen or that thing will happen”, only for something completely different to actually occur. But that is the position I found myself in on Wednesday afternoon. On…

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Study claiming vaping weakens lung cancer benefits challenged by its own peer reviewer

A new study suggesting vapes may weaken the lung cancer benefits of quitting smoking was challenged during peer review over serious methodological concerns. The study, published in Nature Medicine on June 8, analysed health data from more than 4.5 million adults in…

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The war on drugs comes for nicotine: Brussels lobbyists, failed Australian prohibitionists and a tiny island lobby the UN to treat vapers like meth addicts

A tiny archipelago with a population of just 18,000, has asked the UN to put nicotine on the same list as crystal meth, ecstasy and the date-rape drug GHB in an audacious move co-ordinated by European tobacco control bigwigs. Palau - a…

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“This Is Criminal Neglect of Evidence” — Tobacco Control, Ideology & Harm Reduction Explained

Peter Beckett: Delon Human, welcome to Clearing the Air. Delon Human: It’s my privilege. Peter Beckett: Can we get a short introduction of who you are and how you came to be where you are now? Delon Human: Well, I am a…

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A Deal for Tobacco Control: Harm Reduction for Plain Packs

I was interviewed for the European Correspondent at last week’s Global Forum on Nicotine, which I assume will publish the usual “Big Tobacco Stooges” style hit piece on us at some point. The journalist (who asked me not to mention their name)…

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