“There’s nothing good to be said about tobacco.” Robert F Drinnan, reporter Anti-tobacco and drinking fanatics have been driving policy on smoking and alcohol based on ideology, not science, for years. That’s why snus, at least 99% safer than smoking, is illegal in the UK while cigarettes that lead to the death of hundreds of [...]

Paul has written written about leaked journalist guidelines for reporting stories on tobacco on the tobacco harm reduction blog. If you read the blogpost you will soon realise that it is not entirely serious. I thought it was a good send-up of tobacco writing , although I might have made it more over the top. [...]

The UK Regulatory Policy Committee (RPC) has issued a withering criticism of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)’s consultation letter calling for the regulation of electronic cigarettes as a medicine, pointing out out that there is insufficient evidence that the electronic cigarette poses a risk to public health. The MHRA, while acknowledging the [...]

One way around a potential ban on electronic cigarettes!

The MHRA has refused to allow tobacco experts and consultants to attend a consultation meeting on the electronic cigarette.