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Last night I was over at my Mum’s for dinner and picked up her paper, the Daily Mail, for a flick through. A story caught my eye: “UK is the worst for lung disease – We have the highest death rates in Europe” The crux of the story was that a lack of equipment and [...]

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Another pub has been bankrupted in Scotland. After three years of struggling to survive the smoking ban, Ray and Jill McHale have lost their business, their money and their home. Now penniless, they face thousands of dollars in penalties for smoking in their own home. You can find the full story on Freedom to Choose [...]

The latest THR update from Bill Godshall of Smokefree Pennsylvania: Pope finally acknowledges condoms reduce HIV transmission risk, but government health officials still deny that substituting smoke free alternatives for cigarettes sharply reduces tobacco disease risk. Smokeless Tobacco US DHHS intensifies quixotic campaign to end all tobacco use instead of reducing morbidity and mortality, promotes [...]

Statements by the WHO/Anti-smoking organisations on the electronic cigarette from a conference in Uruagay appear to make little sense. Quit smoking aid? “The electronic cigarette is presented as an instrument certified to quit smoking but there is no scientific evidence to support this assertion,” said Eduardo Bianco. What we say (and other responsible suppliers) say [...]

We were shocked and dismayed last week to find out that one of customers had been fired for using an electronic cigarette. Following instructions, bus driver Joanne was not using the electronic cigarette while driving but at a turnaround when, without warning, she was fired for gross misconduct. Our managing directer wrote to her company, [...]

Clear evidence from across the pond that anti-electronic cigarette propoganda is failing – badly. By 86.9%, to be exact! In the latest THR update from Godshall (see previous post) Godshall reports on a poll by the Annals of Internal Medicine. If you remember, the Annals published their opinion that electronic cigarettes were a bad idea. [...]

Reproduced  from Bill Godshall’s THR email update. Tobacco Harm Reduction Vicki McKenna interviews Bill Godshall about tobacco harm reduction products and policies (WIBA-Madison, 11/15/10) http://a1135.g.akamai.net/f/1135/18227/1h/cchannel.download.akamai.com/18227/podcast/MADISON-WI/WIBA-AM/UP%20FRONT%20MONDAY%2011-15-10%20HR%202.mp3?CPROG=PCAST&MARKET=MADISON-WI&NG_FORMAT=&SITE_ID=1170&STATION_ID=WIBA-AM&PCAST_AUTHOR=WIBA-AM&PCAST_CAT=News/Talk&PCAST_TITLE=Up_Front Electronic Cigarettes NC health director misleads smokers about e-cigarette risks, unwittingly encourages youth usage http://www2.journalnow.com/business/2010/nov/14/e-cigarettes-safety-unknown-official-says-ar-536263/ Special Report: Electronic Cigarettes (NBC17-Raleigh, NC) http://www2.nbc17.com/news/2010/nov/15/special-report-electronic-cigarettes-ar-539188/ Annals of Internal Medicine poll supports e-cigarettes as harm reduction alternative (results below [...]

A WHO committee has recommended that electronic cigarettes are not included in a review of tobacco products according to UNAMEUF.org. The electronic cigarette contains no tobacco. Perhaps more importantly, no combustion takes place – and scientists have identified combustion as the main cause of harm to smokers. The committee seems to have picked up on [...]