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There's a website called Tobacco in Australia: Facts and Issues which is written by a few anti-smoking activist-academics. It provides lots of tobacco-related statistics and a bit of editorialising. 

The website has a


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I did the Tom Nelson podcast last week. We discussed a range of issues including vaping, nicotine, obesity, prohibition and more. Check it out.


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 Clive Bates has started a Substack. His first post is an interview he did a while ago... 

You are a critic of Michael Bloomberg’s role in tobacco policy, why?

The New York financial services billionaire and philanthropist, Michael Bloomberg, spends hundreds of millions of dollars in this field and serves as a WHO amb...


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Some happy news to end your week. An attempt by anti-alcohol academics to rig America's drinking guidelines has failed spectacularly. 

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform does not pull its punches. Its report -


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Lacking anything else to do, the Labour government is planning to lower the drink-drive limit. England and Wales have a higher limit than most European countries and fewer drink-related road accidents per capita than nearly all of them. We also know from Scotland that lowering the limit won't have any effect on road safety but will damage the pub trade. 

The worst ...


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