There is currently a global debate about the efficacy of vaping in reducing smoking prevalence. While the debate is ongoing, … Continue reading “Vaping Works”

A study published in JAMA Pediatrics this week looked a ban on e-cigarette flavours implemented in San Francisco on 1 … Continue reading “The empirical evidence is clear: anti-vaping policies are pro-tobacco policies”

Earlier this week, Hong Kong’s government decided to impose a full ban on the sale, manufacture and import of e-cigarettes. … Continue reading “The rise of e-cigarettes – a parable of the free market”

E-cigarettes have become by far the most popular smoking cessation aid in the UK, helping hundreds of thousands of people … Continue reading “When it comes to e-cigs, harm reduction must be the order of the day”

‘Excuse me, Miss, but you can’t smoke that in here’, is a phrase I’ve grown accustomed to hearing. I’ve been … Continue reading “It’s my party and I’ll vape if I want to”

Yesterday saw the publication of the first ever Nanny State Index. It looks at 32 criteria and 28 countries to … Continue reading “Britain is amongst the EU’s most meddlesome nanny states”

The technological breakthrough of e-cigarettes has placed the medical establishment and taxpayer-funded public health advocates in a bit of a … Continue reading “Don’t turn e-cigarettes into another tool of the state health nannies”

Are free markets incompatible with good health? To hear some of the rhetoric that comes from the medical establishment, you … Continue reading “Free market solutions in health should be allowed to flourish”

This morning I was on the radio discussing electronic cigarettes in response to a headteacher banning their use at Blatchington … Continue reading “E-cigarettes and the gateway hypothesis”