Interesting NEJM paper on UK and Harm Reduction

[Oliver]

So, as many of you will be aware, the UK government is really keen on being world leader on vape in the post-regulation era. Our public health community has, broadly, come to the view that tobacco harm reduction, in the form of vaping, is a good thing....

However, this really doesn't appear to be true in the United States, and this NEJM article takes a historical perspective on the divide between the US and UK and Prohibition and Harm Reduction for other substances.

I think it's somewhat lacking, mind you - vaping in the UK faced very similar opposition to our US friends - the difference seems to have been that we were able to get sufficient people in UK Public Health to recognise that the BS "prohibitionist" arguments are exactly that. I particularly enjoyed the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids being singled out as a principal organiser of anti-vape sentiment.

Anyway, probably quite an important paper, so have a read.

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[Sgt. Pepper]

Great article!

 

[rgerber]

Good read...thanks.

 

[ENAUD]

So, as many of you will be aware, the UK government is really keen on being world leader on vape in the post-regulation era. Our public health community has, broadly, come to the view that tobacco harm reduction, in the form of vaping, is a good thing....

However, this really doesn't appear to be true in the United States, and this NEJM article takes a historical perspective on the divide between the US and UK and Prohibition and Harm Reduction for other substances.

I think it's somewhat lacking, mind you - vaping in the UK faced very similar opposition to our US friends - the difference seems to have been that we were able to get sufficient people in UK Public Health to recognise that the BS "prohibitionist" arguments are exactly that. I particularly enjoyed the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids being singled out as a principal organiser of anti-vape sentiment.

Anyway, probably quite an important paper, so have a read.

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Thanks SJ, e-mailed the article to myself so I can share it with my Dr., he is on the abstinence team.

 

[DavidOck]

Thanks, interesting comparison of our two cultures.

"The overwhelming focus in the United States is abstinence."

Dang puritans.....

 

[crxess]

Appreciate the Read.

Huge difference in countries - The Few have decided they have last word on the lives of the many.
(MPO) - The United States Government has Flushed. It is now only a matter of time until this country is down the toilet.

 

[daviedog]

Could i become a colonist..

 

[Robino1]

Read, shared on my FB.

 

[Joules_Verne]

Could i become a colonist..

Given your location and my being a Brit, I could suggest that your ancestors already fixed that for you.................(insert tongue-in-cheek emoticon here)

 

[daviedog]

Given your location and my being a Brit, I could suggest that your ancestors already fixed that for you.................(insert tongue-in-cheek emoticon here)

I was the result of one last laugh..

 

[gingertalk196]

Great article, thanks for sharing.

 

[artt]

Great read. With the USA and it's current political set-up at the federal and state level, what is "right" is subservient to what is profitable.

 

[glointhedark]

Thanks for sharing. Posted on my FB page.

 

[Tivaliman]

So, as many of you will be aware, the UK government is really keen on being world leader on vape in the post-regulation era. Our public health community has, broadly, come to the view that tobacco harm reduction, in the form of vaping, is a good thing....

However, this really doesn't appear to be true in the United States, and this NEJM article takes a historical perspective on the divide between the US and UK and Prohibition and Harm Reduction for other substances.

I think it's somewhat lacking, mind you - vaping in the UK faced very similar opposition to our US friends - the difference seems to have been that we were able to get sufficient people in UK Public Health to recognise that the BS "prohibitionist" arguments are exactly that. I particularly enjoyed the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids being singled out as a principal organiser of anti-vape sentiment.

Anyway, probably quite an important paper, so have a read.

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[Steamix]

Guess the difference is in dealing with things as they are - not as you'd like them to be. Realpolitik, if you will.
Prohibiting/banning anything doesn't make it go away, it just hikes the prices as inofficial supply chains will step will take over in the blink of an eye once the official channels dry up or are deliberately blocked.

May give a lot of puritans a raison d'etre ... fighting the good fight 'n all that.
Righteousness needs 'sinners' to feed on. Price tag for that 'food' is a certain degree of psychotic behaviour patterns. Like denial.

Pragmatic approach makes more sense - ideologies should serve the people. Once people are made to serve ideology, things usually take a turn for the worse.

Like a lot of other activities, vaping isn't gonna go away just because some folk wish it would.

But it also helps that the money trails are laid out differently in the UK ...

 

[Robino1]

The link is appearing for me, it says mms: Error

That's what the link 'says', it is still clickable and takes you to where it needs to go. At least it does for me.

 

[Paul lamb]