Monday, 2 March 2026
Britain's black market in tobacco is too big to ignore
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Figures published last week show that legal tobacco sales fell by 52% in the United Kingdom between 2021 and 2025. The volume of manufactu...
Thursday, 26 February 2026
Restless people
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The BBC has been unearthing cases of people behaving unusually after taking a drug for Restless Legs Syndrome. Since reporting the story ...
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
Fight the vaping ban
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The New Nicotine Alliance has produced a simple, accurate and easy-to-read summary of why the proposed vaping ban is an appalling idea. You ...
Friday, 20 February 2026
Travel advice for vapers
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The Telegraph has written a guide for vapers travelling to parts of the world that are even more hostile to e-cigarettes. I am quoted in i...
Thursday, 19 February 2026
Could this anti-smoking sockpuppet be a victim of its own success?
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According to the Charity Commission , the prohibitionist astro-turf group Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) relieved taxpayers of £245,000 ...
Wednesday, 18 February 2026
Spurious correlation news
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The "gateway" theory of vaping is based on the observation that teenagers who have ever vaped are more likely to smoke than teenag...
Impact Assessment for vape ban doesn't assess the impact
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I've been reading about the Impact Assessment for the proposed vaping ban. It is very poor and quite weird. It doesn't seem to know ...
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