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E-cigarettes are NOT banned in Canada
You know the old canard – if it walks like a duck, sounds like a duck and looks like a duck its probably a duck? Well, what we have here in Canada is the opposite. Though Health Canada acts as though...
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Bad apple studies – pt 2 (and Josey Wales too)
Following from Part 1 There is something else that is special about the Winn and FDA studies. Typically when one study becomes a standard citation it is an examplar of some sort. It either represents...
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Even professional harm reduction workers have issues with tobacco harm reduction
Ask any doctor what they would recommend if a patient of theirs who felt compelled to use a drug with proven health risks asked whether it would be better to take another drug which made them feel...
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The trouble with dedicated nicotine-free e-cigarette producers
First of all there is nothing wrong with nicotine-free options for someone who wants them. The problem is that producers and marketers limited to nicotine-free options, particular in a distorted market...
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E-cigarettes as medical or recreational devices – is there room for both?
In the latest New Scientist is a report on British American Tobacco’s acquisition of an e-cigarette company and apparently “is now planning to ask the UK authorities to recognise one of its products as...
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Health Canada’s anti-cigarette stance: Cui bono
Thanks to Health Canada, the e-cigarette climate in this country is an inhospitable one to say the least. There is no problem vaping if you can get them but availability is hit and miss. Though the...
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More Chicken Little from Alberta Action on Smoking and Health
Today in the Edmonton Journal (Flavoured products a blatant ploy to target youth, Alberta anti-tobacco group declares) Keith Gerein wrote New survey results indicating large numbers of Alberta...
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E-cigs and cruise ships: will a no always outweigh a yes?
Tip of the hat to Michael McFadden for drawing this to my attention. Dick Puddlecote wrote a post about the changes in smoking policies on cruise ships which led Michael to this e-cigarette smoking...
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Paris children used as pawns in EU e-cigarette battle
(Thanks to Aaron Frazier who pointed the way to a post by Sylvain Filatriau). A new study out of Paris is about as badly (falsely) titled as this post about it. In the Open Journal of Respiratory...
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Onto new pastures
Given that this venue originated when the authors were all working together at the University of Alberta but now have diverged (while still sharing the common goal) it makes sense to change venues as...
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