Community PerspectivesConsumer Perspectives
16 September 2026
Would Charles Schulz Have Done It This Way?
When a Charlie Brown event uses smoking-damaged lungs to warn children about vaping
Skip Murray • Consumer Perspectives • United States
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132 articles
Community PerspectivesRegional Perspectives
14 September 2026
Lung Foundation Australia demands rigorous scrutiny of tobacco excise reform. Its own proposals deserve the same treatment.
Mark Brooke’s defence of Australian tobacco policy has a credibility problem: the standard of evidence changes depending on whose proposal is being examined.
Alan Gorley • Regional Perspectives • Australia
Community PerspectivesPublic Health Debate
12 September 2026
Lindsay Clancy and the (Maybe Deserved) Distrust of Health Authorities
A high-impact case study in scientific ambiguities, group polarization, and public distrust of health authorities
Arielle Selya • Public Health Debate • US
Community PerspectivesRegional Perspectives
12 September 2026
Australia’s tobacco problem is disappearing from the till. Is it disappearing from people’s lives?
The Parliamentary Budget Office’s nicotine analysis raises an uncomfortable question: how much of the decline in legal tobacco sales represents quitting, and how much represents shopping elsewhere?
Alan Gorley • Regional Perspectives • Australia
Community PerspectivesRegional Perspectives
12 September 2026
Journal Entry - I Mixed Up My Meds by Mistake
On uncertainty, self-trust, and being human inside a daily routine.
Alan Gorley • Regional Perspectives • Australia
Community PerspectivesRegional Perspectives
10 September 2026
Transparency Is Not a Scandal: Why Is Vape-Free Kids Targeting ASH New Zealand?
Something strange has happened in New Zealand’s tobacco debate.
Alan Gorley • Regional Perspectives • Australia
Community PerspectivesRegional Perspectives
9 September 2026
Australia’s Vaping Reforms: Less Vaping, More Smoking, and a Gateway Study That Can’t Tell Which Way the Gate Swings
There is something rather revealing buried in this Australian adolescent nicotine study.
Alan Gorley • Regional Perspectives • Australia
Community PerspectivesPolicy & Regulation
9 September 2026
The Possibility of Influence Is Not Proof of Capture
Article 5.3 should protect evidence-based policymaking. It should never become a substitute for it.
Alan Gorley • Policy & Regulation • Australia
Community PerspectivesRegional Perspectives
8 September 2026
Julian Hill’s certainty is doing more work than his evidence
Australians deserve an honest account of vaping, smoking and policy failure. Hill’s remarks offer selective science and a demand to double down.
Alan Gorley • Regional Perspectives • Australia
Community PerspectivesPolicy & Regulation
7 September 2026
They Knew. Now They Want Modelling.
The government demands evidence before changing nicotine policy. Its own documents make the case for applying that standard to the policy already in place.
Alan Gorley • Policy & Regulation • Australia
Community PerspectivesRegional Perspectives
5 September 2026
Laura Hunter’s Tobacco Defence Does Not Survive Scrutiny
Selective evidence, unexplained comparisons and a refusal to discuss price incentives make a weak case for preserving Australia’s tobacco settings.
Alan Gorley • Regional Perspectives • Australia
Community PerspectivesPolicy & Regulation
3 September 2026
Part One: From Pesticide to NRT: A Regulatory History of Nicotine
Chapter Two: Federal Tobacco Taxation: Revenue, Regulation, and Public Health
Skip Murray • Policy & Regulation • United States
Community PerspectivesRegional Perspectives
3 September 2026
The Antis Assemble
The Coalition has proposed a fundamental reset of Australia’s failed nicotine policy. The response from the public health establishment was entirely predictable.
Alan Gorley • Regional Perspectives • Australia
Community PerspectivesPolicy & Regulation
31 August 2026
Two Countries, the Same Evidence, and Two Very Different Ideas About Helping Smokers Quit
Australia and New Zealand are separated by a few thousand kilometres of ocean, yet we share medical research, similar health systems and decades of tobacco-control history.
Alan Gorley • Policy & Regulation • Australia
Community PerspectivesConsumer Perspectives
30 August 2026
Thirty Minutes With Alan - August Addition - When Reality Refuses to Follow the Plan
There is something deeply appealing about a plan.
Alan Gorley • Consumer Perspectives • Australia
Community PerspectivesConsumer Perspectives
30 August 2026
Journal Entry- A Conversation I Keep Replaying
Some conversations end when people say goodbye, and others follow me home.
Alan Gorley • Consumer Perspectives • Australia
Community PerspectivesConsumer Perspectives
29 August 2026
Four Countries, Four Nicotine Futures
The United States, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand are not merely interpreting evidence differently. They are answering different moral questions about commerce, autonomy and acceptable risk
Alan Gorley • Consumer Perspectives • Australia
Community PerspectivesEconomics & Taxation
29 August 2026
Australia’s Tobacco Tax Has Reached the Point Where Even Its Defenders Are Asking the Wrong Question
There is a remarkable sentence buried near the end of this ABC analysis of Australia’s illicit tobacco crisis:
Alan Gorley • Economics & Taxation • Australia
Community PerspectivesRegional Perspectives
28 August 2026
When Evidence Challenges the Status Quo: Senator Dorinda Cox and Australia’s Tobacco Policy Reckoning
Senator Dorinda Cox and the Government Senators had an extraordinary body of evidence placed before them during the Senate inquiry into Australia’s illegal tobacco crisis.
Alan Gorley • Regional Perspectives • Australia
Community PerspectivesRegional Perspectives
27 August 2026
Three Hundred Firebombings: How Many More Before Australia Changes Course?
There are numbers that should change a public policy debate, and three hundred firebombings are surely one of them.
Alan Gorley • Regional Perspectives • Australia
Community PerspectivesEconomics & Taxation
26 August 2026
Simon Chapman’s $10 Cigarette Argument Accidentally Makes the Case for Cutting Tobacco Excise
Simon Chapman’s latest attack on tobacco excise reform is certainly colourful.
Alan Gorley • Economics & Taxation • Australia
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
25 August 2026
JAMA Article on E-Cigarettes Makes Refreshingly Sound Recommendations to Clinicians
A new JAMA article by the Treatment Research Network of SRNT (the Society for Nicotine and Tobacco Research) discusses how clinicians should discuss e-cigarettes with patients who smoke cigarettes.
Arielle Selya • Science & Evidence • US
Community PerspectivesEconomics & Taxation
25 August 2026
Canada Cut Tobacco Taxes and Crushed the Black Market
Australia should study what worked, then improve it with legal access to safer nicotine products.
Alan Gorley • Economics & Taxation • Australia
Community PerspectivesPolicy & Regulation
25 August 2026
Part One: From Pesticide to NRT: A Regulatory History of Nicotine
Chapter One: Tobacco & Nicotine History That Contributes to the Regulatory Landscape
Skip Murray • Policy & Regulation • United States
Community PerspectivesPolicy & Regulation
22 August 2026
A Flavor Is Not an Age Group
What Pop-Tarts cocktails reveal about the debate over flavored nicotine
Skip Murray • Policy & Regulation • United States
Community PerspectivesEconomics & Taxation
22 August 2026
Is Cutting Tobacco Excise Really a Gift to Big Tobacco?
Australia’s tobacco tax is collapsing, the illicit market is flourishing, and moral certainty is no substitute for policy that works.
Alan Gorley • Economics & Taxation • Australia
Community PerspectivesConsumer Perspectives
21 August 2026
Journal Entry - Who Am I When I’m Not Fighting?
I have spent a lot of time fighting.
Alan Gorley • Consumer Perspectives • Australia
Community PerspectivesRegional Perspectives
20 August 2026
The Report That Finally Said the Quiet Part Out Loud
For years, Australians have been told that the explosion of illicit tobacco and vaping is primarily an enforcement problem.
Alan Gorley • Regional Perspectives • Australia
Community PerspectivesMedia & Communications
19 August 2026
What do AI assistants tell users about tobacco harm reduction?
Getting the facts mostly right and the framing wrong
Kristof Redei • Media & Communications • USA
Community PerspectivesPolicy & Regulation
18 August 2026
The Tobacco Control Antis Have a Problem
One Nation has proposed a 75 per cent reduction in tobacco excise, and you could almost write the responses before they arrived: public health progress is threatened, Big Tobacco will benefit, smoking could increase, we need stronger enforcement, tougher penalties and more quitting support, and above all we must protect decades of tobacco control achievement.
Alan Gorley • Policy & Regulation • Australia
Community PerspectivesPublic Health Debate
17 August 2026
A fairer fight against lung cancer must start before diagnosis
Lung Foundation Australia is right to demand equity in screening and care, but equity also requires an honest conversation about tobacco harm reduction.
Alan Gorley • Public Health Debate • Australia
Community PerspectivesConsumer Perspectives
14 August 2026
Blog Directory
A great way to learn about other people's perspectives.
Skip Murray • Consumer Perspectives • United States
Community PerspectivesPublic Health Debate
14 August 2026
The FCTC’s “Mythbusters” Report Has a Credibility Problem
Tobacco causes immense harm. That does not excuse the use of selective evidence, false binaries and policy advocacy presented as neutral fact
Alan Gorley • Public Health Debate • Australia
Community PerspectivesMedia & Communications
12 August 2026
Journal Entry - A Light Going Out
I’ve been sitting with the news that Filter is closing, trying to understand why it feels like such a personal loss.
Alan Gorley • Media & Communications • Australia
Community PerspectivesMedia & Communications
11 August 2026
The Safe Place in My Inbox: A Farewell to Filter
No regrets
Skip Murray • Media & Communications • United States
Community PerspectivesPolicy & Regulation
10 August 2026
When “Hold the Course” Means Ignoring Where the Course Has Taken Us
There is a sentence near the end of the ABC investigation into Australia’s illicit tobacco crisis that, for me, captures the central problem with the Australian debate.
Alan Gorley • Policy & Regulation • Australia
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
9 August 2026
INTERNAL MEMORANDUM
Subject: To the Scientists Who Never Got the Memo
Alan Gorley • Science & Evidence • Australia
Community PerspectivesPolicy & Regulation
8 August 2026
The Corruption Was Never the Real Scandal
When most people read the latest investigation into the collapse of the Australian Border Force’s secret intelligence unit, they will probably focus on one individual.
Alan Gorley • Policy & Regulation • Australia
Community PerspectivesCessation & Behaviour
6 August 2026
The Wall We Keep Building
Working together towards the common goal - everyone wins
N. E. Loucas • Cessation & Behaviour • New Zealand
Community PerspectivesPolicy & Regulation
6 August 2026
FDA Tobacco Regulation in the United States: Origins and Responses
Project Index
Skip Murray • Policy & Regulation • United States
Community PerspectivesConsumer Perspectives
5 August 2026
The Wrong Question About Vaping
Ecological momentary assessment is an impressive research method because, instead of asking participants to reconstruct their behaviour days or weeks later, researchers contact them in real time to ask what they are doing, where they are, how they are feeling and what happened immediately before they vaped.
Alan Gorley • Consumer Perspectives • Australia
Community PerspectivesEthics & Human Rights
4 August 2026
"My Best Friend"
We're failing people when we treat nicotine addiction and not the whole person
Skip Murray • Ethics & Human Rights • United States
Community PerspectivesCessation & Behaviour
3 August 2026
The Difference Between Quitting Nicotine and Ending Smoking
Every so often, a paper appears that calls for a “balanced perspective.” It is a phrase that sounds reassuring because science should be balanced, public policy should be balanced, and decisions that affect millions of lives should certainly be balanced.
Alan Gorley • Cessation & Behaviour • Australia
Community PerspectivesEthics & Human Rights
1 August 2026
In Honor of Disability Pride Month
Announcing the launch of a new page on the Safer Nicotine Wiki
Skip Murray • Ethics & Human Rights • United States
Community PerspectivesPolicy & Regulation
31 July 2026
Two Presentations, One Crisis: When the Evidence Points Beyond Enforcement
Watching James Martin’s presentation alongside Cheneal Puljević’s is fascinating because they are not really arguing about whether Australia has an illicit tobacco crisis.
Alan Gorley • Policy & Regulation • Australia
Community PerspectivesConsumer Perspectives
30 July 2026
The History of Safer
Imagine writing the history of civilisation not through kings, wars, borders, revolutions or empires, but through something much simpler: the history of safer.
Alan Gorley • Consumer Perspectives • Australia
Community PerspectivesConsumer Perspectives
29 July 2026
When Every Outcome Proves You Right: The Problem With Simon Chapman’s Argument
Simon’s latest argument is revealing because, underneath all the rhetoric, he actually concedes much of the problem his critics are describing.
Alan Gorley • Consumer Perspectives • Australia
Community PerspectivesProducts & Innovation
29 July 2026
The Future of Nicotine Was Not Invented by Big Tobacco
There is a convenient story often told about tobacco harm reduction.
Alan Gorley • Products & Innovation • Australia
Community PerspectivesConsumer Perspectives
29 July 2026
The Brave New World still resonates...
Wherever my 10th grade English teacher, Mr. Loeffler is, I am sure he is smiling because someone was actually paying attention in class. ;-)
N. E. Loucas • Consumer Perspectives • New Zealand
Community PerspectivesConsumer Perspectives
29 July 2026
The "I Changed My Mind" Project
Evidence that patience, stories, and science really can change minds
Skip Murray • Consumer Perspectives • United States
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
28 July 2026
UPDATE of Safety of high-powered sub-ohm devices (part II )
Review of 7 emblematic studies
Roberto Sussman • Science & Evidence • Mexico
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
26 July 2026
Safety of high-powered sub-ohm devices (part II)
Review of 7 emblematic studies
Roberto Sussman • Science & Evidence • Mexico
Community PerspectivesConsumer Perspectives
26 July 2026
The Questions That Change Everything
Every day we ask questions.
Alan Gorley • Consumer Perspectives • Australia
Community PerspectivesPolicy & Regulation
25 July 2026
The Commissioner Is Fighting the Fire While Ignoring the Fuel
Australia’s illicit tobacco crisis has reached a remarkable point.
Alan Gorley • Policy & Regulation • Australia
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
24 July 2026
Fact Sheet: Arguments against "Gateway to Smoking / Addiction" Claims
From my GFN presentation in a panel titled "Debunking the Science Used to Support Prohibition"
Arielle Selya • Science & Evidence • US
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
23 July 2026
Safety of high-powered sub-ohm devices (part I)
The science vs the politics
Roberto Sussman • Science & Evidence • Mexico
Community PerspectivesRegional Perspectives
22 July 2026
The Conversation Australia Needed to Have
There are moments in public policy when the conversation itself becomes more important than the conclusions.
Alan Gorley • Regional Perspectives • Australia
Community PerspectivesConsumer Perspectives
19 July 2026
Journal Entry - The Legacy I Want to Leave
Lately, I have found myself thinking less about winning the battles in front of me and more about what will remain when those battles are no longer mine to fight.
Alan Gorley • Consumer Perspectives • Australia
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
17 July 2026
The Most Convenient Number Came First
The latest National Drug Strategy Household Survey should have been an opportunity to give Australians a clear and honest account of what has happened to smoking, vaping and nicotine use since the federal government overturned the legal vaping market and forced lawful supply into participating pharmacies.
Alan Gorley • Science & Evidence • Australia
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
16 July 2026
Fact Sheet: Arguments against "Youth Epidemic" Claims
From my GFN presentation in a panel titled "Debunking the Science Used to Support Prohibition"
Arielle Selya • Science & Evidence • US
Community PerspectivesConsumer Perspectives
15 July 2026
The Bootleggers and Baptists Paradox: How Anti Vaping Campaigns Can Protect the Cigarette Market
One of political economy’s most revealing ideas is the Bootleggers and Baptists paradox.
Alan Gorley • Consumer Perspectives • Australia
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
14 July 2026
The Latest from Manchester Metropolitan University Researchers
Fitness studies looking for effects of vaping and smoking
Skip Murray • Science & Evidence • United States
Community PerspectivesConsumer Perspectives
12 July 2026
Who Benefits from the Status Quo? - Part 3 Final
This is the final instalment of the series and continues directly from Part 2.
Alan Gorley • Consumer Perspectives • Australia
Community PerspectivesConsumer Perspectives
11 July 2026
Who Benefits from the Status Quo? - Part 2
This Substack continues from Part 1, where I explored how institutional incentives, path dependence and organisational structures can shape public policy.
Alan Gorley • Consumer Perspectives • Australia
Community PerspectivesEthics & Human Rights
10 July 2026
Ethics & Prohibition in Tobacco Harm Reduction
Adapted from my GFN 2026 presentation
Arielle Selya • Ethics & Human Rights • US
Community PerspectivesConsumer Perspectives
10 July 2026
Who Benefits from the Status Quo? - Part 1
Public health debates are often presented as contests between evidence and vested interests.
Alan Gorley • Consumer Perspectives • Australia
Community PerspectivesMedia & Communications
9 July 2026
Events
July 9, 2026
Skip Murray • Media & Communications • United States
Community PerspectivesConsumer Perspectives
9 July 2026
See Opportunities
July 8, 2026
Skip Murray • Consumer Perspectives • United States
Community PerspectivesConsumer Perspectives
8 July 2026
Treat Adults Like Adults: A Better Approach to Nicotine Policy
Honor Their Personal Agency
N. E. Loucas • Consumer Perspectives • New Zealand
Community PerspectivesConsumer Perspectives
6 July 2026
The case for an autonomy prior in global health
What effective altruists can learn from harm reduction's skepticism of paternalism
Kristof Redei • Consumer Perspectives • USA
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
4 July 2026
Tobacco Harm Reduction IS Harm Reduction-Part 4
A Look at NHS England
Skip Murray • Science & Evidence • United States
Community PerspectivesPolicy & Regulation
3 July 2026
Responses to ZYN MRTP Announcement
The US FDA CTP announcement was made June 30, 2026.
Skip Murray • Policy & Regulation • United States
Community PerspectivesPublic Health Debate
3 July 2026
New Zealand's Accelerated Decline in Smoking after Embracing E-Cigarettes
My take on an exchange about Beaglehole et al.'s article showing a sudden steeper decline in New Zealand's smoking rate. Below, I expand my PubPeer comment on a published criticism to this article.
Arielle Selya • Public Health Debate • US
Community PerspectivesEthics & Human Rights
29 June 2026
Tobacco harm reduction is, at its heart, a justice issue.
Yet when it comes to nicotine and safer alternatives to smoking, that arc is bending in a strange direction.
N. E. Loucas • Ethics & Human Rights • New Zealand
Community PerspectivesConsumer Perspectives
25 June 2026
Aotearoa New Zealand: Battleground of Tobacco Harm Reduction Perceptions
Where lives are at stake, it is imperative to identify common ground and pursue coordinated, evidence-based action.
N. E. Loucas • Consumer Perspectives • New Zealand
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
25 June 2026
The Population Is Shifting to a Less Harmful Form of Nicotine
My new paper shows that US adults are in the midst of switching from combustible cigarettes to e-cigarette use, with little dual use. Many other countries show similar transitions.
Arielle Selya • Science & Evidence • US
Community PerspectivesPublic Health Debate
23 June 2026
A Plea from an Advocate in Mongolia
"Public health policies should encourage smokers to move away from combustible tobacco, not make safer alternatives inaccessible while cigarettes remain widely available."
N. E. Loucas • Public Health Debate • New Zealand
Community PerspectivesPublic Health Debate
23 June 2026
Smoke Screens and Double Standards
Why Tobacco Harm Reduction is a Policy Imperative in Asia Pacific
N. E. Loucas • Public Health Debate • New Zealand
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
18 June 2026
Tobacco Harm Reduction IS Harm Reduction-Part 3
A look at Cleveland Clinic
Skip Murray • Science & Evidence • United States
Community PerspectivesPolicy & Regulation
14 June 2026
US Regulation of Nicotine Pouches & E-Cigarettes: Interview with Laura Leigh Oyler
Laura Leigh Oyler (Haypp Group) and I discuss the history and current events of US regulation of nicotine and tobacco products.
Arielle Selya • Policy & Regulation • US
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
13 June 2026
Tobacco Harm Reduction IS Harm Reduction - Part 2
A look at University of Iowa Health Care
Skip Murray • Science & Evidence • United States
Community PerspectivesEthics & Human Rights
7 June 2026
Gender and Tobacco: The Hidden Risk Factor for Non Communicable Disease (NCDs)
Recognising gender as a core risk factor is not about blaming individuals. It is about being honest that social norms, economic structures, and health systems are not neutral.
N. E. Loucas • Ethics & Human Rights • New Zealand
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
3 June 2026
Tobacco Harm Reduction IS Harm Reduction Part One
Why do public health principles so often stop when the substance is nicotine?
Skip Murray • Science & Evidence • United States
Community PerspectivesConsumer Perspectives
1 June 2026
2026 WVD/WNTD
#OurVoices
Skip Murray • Consumer Perspectives • United States
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
31 May 2026
Cancer and non-cancer risk analysis of vaping. Part II
Correcting a flawed risk analysis
Roberto Sussman • Science & Evidence • Mexico
Community PerspectivesConsumer Perspectives
30 May 2026
No Child Should Be Threatened With Gunfire Over a Vape
What are we doing to our kids?
Skip Murray • Consumer Perspectives • United States
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
29 May 2026
Cancer and non-cancer risk analysis of vaping. Part I
Correcting a flawed risk analysis
Roberto Sussman • Science & Evidence • Mexico
Community PerspectivesMedia & Communications
27 May 2026
A New Symbol, Renewed Hope for World Vape Day
15th Annual World Vape Day - May 30, 2026
Skip Murray • Media & Communications • United States
Community PerspectivesMedia & Communications
25 May 2026
A Letter to the Global Tobacco Harm Reduction Community
Guest post by Kurt Yeo
Skip Murray • Media & Communications • United States
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
25 May 2026
"Third Hand" vaping in animal models
Summary of a useless research
Roberto Sussman • Science & Evidence • Mexico
Community PerspectivesRegional Perspectives
24 May 2026
Smoke-Free Nicotine Products in Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines Through a Harm Reduction Lens
A Policy Analysis | May 2026
N. E. Loucas • Regional Perspectives • New Zealand
Community PerspectivesPublic Health Debate
22 May 2026
Harm Reduction: The Policy We Use Daily but Refuse to Name
Harm reduction is one of the most widely used yet poorly understood concepts in public life.
N. E. Loucas • Public Health Debate • New Zealand
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
4 May 2026
The Conundrum of Peer Review Invitations
These are the trains of thought going through my head when I receive peer review invitations. Other scientists, what do you do?
Arielle Selya • Science & Evidence • US
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
24 April 2026
Dual Use of Cigarettes & E-Cigarettes: A Scientific Journal Exchange
With wider acceptance that e-cigarettes are a viable harm-reduction method among people who smoke, the scientific battleground has retreated to "dual use." A recent exchange captures this well.
Arielle Selya • Science & Evidence • US
Community PerspectivesPolicy & Regulation
21 April 2026
The Great Disconnect in Tobacco Control
Smoke-Free Reality vs Treaty Dogma: The Real Cost of The WHO FCTC Approach to Harm Reduction.
N. E. Loucas • Policy & Regulation • New Zealand
Community PerspectivesPublic Health Debate
21 April 2026
The Disinformation That Is Giving People Who Smoke Cancer.
How false narratives about vaping and cancer risk are costing lives, and what we all must do about it.
N. E. Loucas • Public Health Debate • New Zealand
Community PerspectivesRegional Perspectives
12 April 2026
Asia Pacific is not rejecting tobacco harm reduction because it “doesn’t get it”
The real question was never whether THR sounds promising. It is whether governments can introduce it in a way that genuinely reduces harm without creating new problems.
N. E. Loucas • Regional Perspectives • New Zealand
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
9 April 2026
Vaping in a recent report by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM).
The report deals with vaping in a short review based on selective references to highlight risks
Roberto Sussman • Science & Evidence • Mexico
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
8 April 2026
A Peek Under the Hood in (Our Attempt) to Correct the Science
Copied below is an email that my collaborators and I sent to journal editors expressing concern about a recent paper claiming a link between e-cigarette use and chronic kidney disease
Arielle Selya • Science & Evidence • US
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
6 April 2026
Is there "third hand vaping"?
Part II. The case for/against Third Hand Vaping
Roberto Sussman • Science & Evidence • Mexico
Community PerspectivesConsumer Perspectives
31 March 2026
Not All Inheritances Are Gifts
On Endurance, Stoicism and Learning What Not to Carry
N. E. Loucas • Consumer Perspectives • New Zealand
Community PerspectivesPublic Health Debate
31 March 2026
Read the Room First:
Why Effective THR Advocacy Starts With Meeting People Where They Are
N. E. Loucas • Public Health Debate • New Zealand
Community PerspectivesPolicy & Regulation
23 March 2026
Australia's Failed E-Cigarette Policy
Five reasons why a prescription-only model is problematic (video & text)
Arielle Selya • Policy & Regulation • US
Community PerspectivesConsumer Perspectives
18 March 2026
When Critics Become Converts:
Why Some Former Opponents of Harm Reduction Shift Late in Their Careers
N. E. Loucas • Consumer Perspectives • New Zealand
Community PerspectivesConsumer Perspectives
17 March 2026
Why Health Advocacy Starts With You But Doesn’t End There
We are living in a moment where trust in health systems, institutions, and expertise is under pressure.
N. E. Loucas • Consumer Perspectives • New Zealand
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
16 March 2026
Complementing and expanding Chris Snowdon's latest Substack on passive vaping
Part 2.
Roberto Sussman • Science & Evidence • Mexico
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
12 March 2026
SRNT 2026 Conference: Reaction
Highlights, lowlights, and other notable things from the conference. Not meant to be an all-inclusive list or a representative summary; just what stood out to me personally.
Arielle Selya • Science & Evidence • US
Community PerspectivesEthics & Human Rights
10 March 2026
Your Health, Your Life, Your Choice
There is something deeply wrong when people feel they have to fight to be treated like human beings in conversations about their own health.
N. E. Loucas • Ethics & Human Rights • New Zealand
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
8 March 2026
On the global intensification of "vapor-free" policies (Part 2)
Part II: Review of the literature on environmental vape aerosols.
Roberto Sussman • Science & Evidence • Mexico
Community PerspectivesEthics & Human Rights
5 March 2026
The Cost of Undermining Harm Reduction
It goes beyond tobacco taxes/excise and political aspirations...way beyond.
N. E. Loucas • Ethics & Human Rights • New Zealand
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
21 February 2026
The Updated Meta-Analysis of E-Cigs & Health Outcomes: Still Critically Flawed
A highly-criticized meta-analysis of e-cigs &health outcomes was just updated. Not only does it still perpetuate critical flaws in the underlying studies, but it's interpreted with double-standards.
Arielle Selya • Science & Evidence • US
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
18 February 2026
On the global intensification of "vapor-free" policies (Part 1)
Part I: Historical background on passive smoking.
Roberto Sussman • Science & Evidence • Mexico
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
14 February 2026
New Research Flaw Unlocked?
In my weekly review of new nicotine/tobacco research, I just saw two examples of a critical flaw that to my knowledge is a brand new error. (The two papers have a common author.)
Arielle Selya • Science & Evidence • US
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
26 January 2026
Recent Successes in Correcting THR Science
Efforts to correct flawed science often go nowhere, but there are a few recent successes: a couple post-publication criticisms and a retraction - though not before flawed papers had caused real damage
Arielle Selya • Science & Evidence • US
Community PerspectivesMedia & Communications
16 January 2026
Launching a YouTube Channel
I’ve decided to create a personal YouTube channel as part of a New Year’s resolution to bring THR science more widely to the public.
Arielle Selya • Media & Communications • US
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
7 January 2026
The Gateway Hypothesis, Part 1: My Gateway to Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR)
How I went from academic tobacco control researcher to industry consultant after changing my mind with my own analyses
Arielle Selya • Science & Evidence • US
Community PerspectivesPolicy & Regulation
28 December 2025
Jumping to (Policy) Conclusions
Observational behavioral studies cannot inform about causality, let alone make recommendations about effective policy. Yet many such logical leaps routinely get through peer review.
Arielle Selya • Policy & Regulation • US
Community PerspectivesEthics & Human Rights
20 December 2025
Eroding Autonomy in Health-Related Behaviors
Lifestyle-related behaviors are important determinants of health — but excessive focus on potential risks is undermining people's autonomy to make the most basic decisions on their own.
Arielle Selya • Ethics & Human Rights • US
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
9 November 2025
The "Blank Slate" Problem in Behavioral Health Research
The near-exclusive focus on extrinsic (and ignoring of intrinsic) drivers of behavior
Arielle Selya • Science & Evidence • US
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
3 November 2025
Pre-Registration of Research Plans
How it can improve research integrity, where it can go wrong, and how to do it right
Arielle Selya • Science & Evidence • US
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
19 September 2025
A full guide to vape aerosols: Post 10, environmental aerosols (part 3, the "particles")
This is the tenth Substack post. It is the third one of a series of 3 posts dealing with environmental vape aerosols. A 4th post reviewing the literature is forecoming.
Roberto Sussman • Science & Evidence • Mexico
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
25 August 2025
A full guide to vape aerosols: Post 9, environmental aerosols (part 2)
This is the ninth Substack post. It is the second one of a series of 3 posts dealing with environmental vape aerosols.
Roberto Sussman • Science & Evidence • Mexico
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
4 August 2025
A full guide to vape aerosols: Post 8, environmental aerosols (part 1)
This is the eigth Substack post. It is the first one of a series of 3 posts dealing with environmental vape aerosols.
Roberto Sussman • Science & Evidence • Mexico
Community PerspectivesConsumer Perspectives
31 July 2025
Sex, drugs, and effective altruism
What EA and harm reduction can learn from each other
Kristof Redei • Consumer Perspectives • USA
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
24 July 2025
Post # 7. In vitro and in vivo systems exposed to aerosol generated by high powered vape devices
A review of 40 studies
Roberto Sussman • Science & Evidence • Mexico
Community PerspectivesPublic Health Debate
22 July 2025
Are doctors and tobacco users unaware of basic facts about harm reduction?
Widespread misperceptions are the norm across the world
Kristof Redei • Public Health Debate • USA
Community PerspectivesScience & Evidence
11 July 2025
A full guide to vape aerosols. Post 6: organic byproducts
Aldehydes, reactions, yields, comparisons with tobacco smoke & air pollution. Free radicals and carbon monoxide
Roberto Sussman • Science & Evidence • Mexico
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