Tag: Clive Bates
Leaked papers Show WHO’s Plans to Intensify War Against E-Cigs
Last week a meeting of tobacco regulators under auspices of the FDA-funded WHO Global Tobacco Regulators’ Forum (GTRF) was held in the Netherlands, as...
More Unfounded “Gateway Theory” Claims
The paper titled, “Evidence that an intervention weakens the relationship between adolescent electronic cigarette use and tobacco smoking: a 24-month prospective study,” concluded that...
Hong Kong: 35K UK Vaping Tourists Could Risk Jail
Last October, a Hong Kong Official had announced a complete ban on e-cigarettes and other innovative tobacco products, in an unexpected U-turn by the...
Most US Smokers Still Think That Snus is as Risky as...
The study titled "Smokers' perceptions of risks and harm from snus relative to cigarettes: A latent profile analysis study", analysed the responses of 256...
Vape Predictions for 2019 by Industry Leaders & Experts
Ashtray Blog has been publishing expert predictions on the future of vaping for the last seven years. This year’s predictions come from experts from...
Public Health Expert: US Statistics on Youth Vaping do not Justify...
In recent months, the FDA has launched several efforts in an attempt to fight teen vaping. Last September, the agency released a campaign which...
About Juul and Teen Vaping
“America’s latest moral panic – the fear that JUUL e-cigarettes are turning the nation’s youth into nicotine addicts – showed no signs of subsiding...
Could Big Tobacco Play a Part in Ending The Smoking Epidemic?
This week, about 3,000 anti-tobacco health and policy experts are expected to attend the 17th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, happening between the...