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“The Tobacco Products Directive is dead” [John Dalli Video Interview 10/19/2012] link changed: http://www.neurope.eu/article/john-dalli-tobacco-products-directive-will-be-killed-video-interview

Not too bad article. Well, there is Banzhaff and Legacy‘s prohibition shills quoted. But author decided to give a positive lead-out based on an actually realistic story.

News and views article in the official journal of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (UK): Promote harm reduction for smokers and let

An extended cspnet article, discussing e-cigs (market/marketing) in regard to this magazine’s audience.

Wagener et al. REPLY to comments on the Wagener et al. 2012 discussion paper published (free access): LET'S KEEP OUR 'EYE ON THE BALL': REDUCING TOBACCO-RELATED HARM - WAGENER - 2012 - Addiction - Wiley Online Library

Kentucky bill announced to return in 2013 (regarding e-cigs: Ellen Hahn’s backyard).

And here is also M. Siegel’s commentary blog (The Rest of the Story, July 24) on the Legacy paper.

ACSH comments (July 23) on ALF’s PR: It’s working, so don’t use it

Haven’t read his name before, but Prof. Stimson appears to have been executive director of the International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA). Traditionally, IHRA has been mostly concerned with questions relating to illict drug use - but also kept an eye on alcohol and tobacco. In this recent...

I apologize to the e-cig community for previously having bought some stuff from TW and TECC. Not that I did it regularly, was just when their price tags came back to normal in discount promos. I promise that I won’t feel tempted to do this again. Quite surprising how overly polite and friendly...

Related, there is also this new study on Weight gain in smokers after quitting cigarettes: meta-analysis, Aubin et al., BMJ 2012 [open access]:

The referenced CSP (Convenience Store Petroleum) news story (OP) recaps a blog post by Michael Siegel (June 29, 2012, The Rest of the Story), where Siegel breaks down a recent scientific publication authored by Schripp et al. (Indoor Air, 2012; follow the link in Siegel’s blog). While there is...

A key sentence in Etter 2012: “Researchers have lacked curiosity.” That’s certainly nothing to blame on Etter. He is probably not an outright fan of e-cigarettes - but he has proven himself to be one of the very few actually curious people within the tobacco control community. That‘s a true...

To read the published journal commentaries (free to access) to Wagener et al.’s discussion article, you may follow this link (Addiction - All Issues - Wiley Online Library), choose “search in this journal”, type “Wagener” and “Siegel” in the search box

pdf: Norcross’ repealed “tobacco free” ordinance was including e-cigs.