Tag: The Counterfactual

Mondays News at a glance: “Deciding Who Lives And Dies” – Thoughts and Ramblings – Totally Wicked case: Advocate General’s flawed reasoning would protect the cigarette trade – Harm Reduction – Flavour and Tax Problems for US Vapers – What was unethical about snoopers measuring particulates at a vape convention? – New York Court Rules that Vaping Is Not Smoking – To each smoker fits a vaporizer – E-cigarettes for smoking reduction, blood pressure and more – Say ‘No More’: The War On Smoking Is A Failure – ‘Good news’ for vapers – Vaping industry shares Utahns’ goals for reducing youth tobacco use – VapourTrails TV – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest – Monday, 22 February 2016

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Thursdays News at a glance: Oh, America – Smoking and vaping in Britain? Show me the data! – Hazel Cheeseman and Peter Hajek – David Sweanor – profile page – The Pleasure Principle – Statistics or Perception? – The ‘dual’ in The Crown – Vapour Trails TV – Public health program evaluation: we found X, so should do more of what we are doing – Stop already with the ludicrous witch hunt over vaping – Proper appraisal – Anti-vaping arguments help Swedish vapers win a battle – Complimentary Webinar: Regulation of E-Vapor Products Under the New Tobacco Products Directive in European Union – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest – Thursday, 18 February 2016

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Tuesdays News at a glance: The Pope, Anti-Vaxxers, And Tobacco Control – The art of ignoring evidence – Public health snoopers detect vapour aerosol at vape conference and fake a particulates scare – Analysing Air Quality….at a Vape Convention – Ecig Benefits for Surgery Patients – Through with Chew Week: Don’t Be Fooled – Nicotine is not addictive – How a softly-softly approach could make Big Tobacco turn over a new leaf – E-Cigarettes Could Be Behind Sharp Rise Of Successful Attempts To Quit Smoking – In the debate about vaping, asking the wrong “right questions” – That’s Chutzpah – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest – Tuesday, 16 February 2016

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Mondays News at a glance: Boiling frogs – What would I do about Ecigs if I was the boss? – Sunday Psychopaths – A Spectator At The Spectator -The mask always slips – So much of what is wrong with public health, in one short rejection letter – Chilling Effect – Quebec Vaping Regulations Stifle Free Speech – In the polarising debate about vaping, we’ve forgotten to ask the right questions – Will the EU inadvertently undermine the fight against cancer? – Anti-E-Cig Lobby Is Like ‘Abstinence Only’ Movement – Ecigs: Potential health threats build up – Where Was All the Vape Talk at the Debate – Radical proposals part of strategy to win faltering war on smoking – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest – Monday, 15 February 2016

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Thursdays News at a glance: Researchers – qualified or, basically, fuckwits? – Internet searches reflect vaping’s surge – New FDA-funded @SDSU research establishes that public health researchers are remarkably dim – Why people shouldn’t be searching for what they are searching for – The Curious Incident Of The Wonk In The Night-time – Latest Data from England – Before the e-cigarette, tobacco companies had no competitor – Dems Try Banning E-Cigs On Planes – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest – Thursday, 11 February 2016

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Fridays News at a glance: TPD implementation – maximising harm by going beyond the minimum – Government Lobbying Government Spotted In Bristol – Smokefree South West to close in June – Public Health (Wales) Bill – Is Glantz’s meta-analysis valid? BBC Radio 4 – Duped and Demoralised Politicians – Fueling the e-cigarette ‘gateway’ crusade with tax dollars – What Can We Do to Save Vaping? The EU and the TPD – Nicotine Science and Policy – Daily Digest – Fri, 5 February 2016

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Wednesdays News at a glance: Who will be duped by error-strewn ‘meta-analysis’ of e-cigarette studies? – San Diego vaping study “corrected”, but journos are silent – Read The Stunning Correction This Scientist Dropped On Her Own Anti-E-Cig Study – “Bootleggers, Baptists and E-Cigarettes” – Why do college-aged young adults use e-cigarettes? – Local Government Association questions value of stop smoking services – A Policy Experiment is Worth a Million Lives – Nigel Farage slates Welsh Government – Researchers Claim Vaping Can Cause Car Crashes – E-cigarette study – Patterns of e-cigarette use in New Zealand – Nicotine Science and Policy – Daily Digest – Wed, 13 January 2016

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New Years Eve News at a glance: Credulous or cynical? Updated – No, there’s still no evidence e-cigarettes are as harmful as smoking – The year’s last blitz on e-cigs – The risk assessment of real life – VapingTruth or VapingMyths – Advocacy, Opposition, and the Vaping Truth – Attack on E-Cigarettes as Gateway Products Draws from Same Old Playbook – Review of the year: the limitless stupidity of 2015 – Jewel Robbing In 2015 – ‘Un-Islamic’ vaping Catches fire in Malaysia amid government backlash – Not quite the time to extinguish debate on E-cigs – After the smoke clears: Inside vaping culture

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Wednesdays News at a glance: Scientist Debunks Latest Claim That E-Cigarettes Are As Dangerous As Tobacco – Credulous or cynical? Science journalists played yet again by e-cigarette pseudoscience and spin – Dangerous nonsense about vaping – Quack claims about vaping, smoking and pets – Peddler Of Absurd Health Claims Ridicules Absurd Health Claims – Government prepared to take action on e-cigarettes – Anti-smoking advocate calls for further price hikes – Getting the Vapors – CASAA comments on FDA proposed “intended use” regulation of ecigs – Amendment to Government Decree

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Tuesdays News at a glance: To Squirt Or Not To Squirt, That Is The Question – Escaping the EU directive on e-cigarettes – Holland Attacks Evil Ecigs – E-Cigs’ Inconvenient Truth: It’s Much Safer to Vape – “SAEV” Us Please! – Vapers in Power End of Year Newsletter 2015 – ASH hit by 25 per cent cut in public funding – Mischaracterization of E-Cigarette Risks Skews Smokers’ Perceptions, Hurts Their Health – E-cigarettes should be promoted as a smoking cessation – Anti-Vaping Advocate Testifies that E-Cigarette Aerosol is More Toxic than Secondhand Smoke – E-cigarette flavors needed to keep vapers from returning to smoking – GOP Congressman Defends Right to Vape – Nicotine Science and Policy – Daily Digest – Tue, 22 December 2015

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