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The IMF Just Challenged Global Tobacco Control Orthodoxy
https://www.imf.org/en/publications/fandd/issues/2026/03/taxing-harmful-habits-christoph-rosenberg
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What If Harm Reduction Is Actually an Evolutionary Process?
Public health often presents itself as the driver of societal change.
19 hrs ago
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After the Memo: When the Evidence Refuses to Behave
If the first part of this story is about the scientists who ignore the memo, the second part is about what happens after they do.
Mar 10
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Invisible Success: The Harm Reduction Paradox Public Health Doesn’t Talk About
Global public health is obsessed with numbers.
Mar 9
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Journal Entry - What My Work Is Telling Me About My Mental Health
I’ve been thinking about how work quietly reveals your mental state.
Mar 8
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When Policy Defends Itself: A Critical Look at Australia’s Tobacco Tax Strategy and the Illicit Market Explosion
The recent paper by Samuel Brookfield, Cheneal Puljević, Ara Cho, and Coral E.
Mar 7
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Clive Bates Shows the Flaws in Bloomberg’s Nicotine War - Australia Demonstrates the Damage
Clive Bates’ recent analysis of Bloomberg-funded tobacco control exposes something that many people working in harm reduction have suspected for years…
Mar 5
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Flavour Bans and the Cigarette Rebound: The Evidence Public Health Doesn’t Want to Discuss
Sigh. That was the word Charles Gardner, PhD, used when he shared yet another stack of studies examining what happened after nicotine vape flavour bans…
Mar 5
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Small System, Narrow Frame: The Quiet Erosion of Pluralism in Australian Public Health
Is Australia Too Small for Intellectual Pluralism?
Mar 4
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Profiting from Harm: How Governments Sell Cigarettes While Blocking Safer Alternatives
There is a profound contradiction in global tobacco control that rarely gets addressed directly: many governments charged with protecting public health…
Mar 3
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New Evidence Shows Vascular Health Improves After Quitting Smoking - Including When Switching to E-Cigarettes
https://academic.oup.com/eurjpc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/eurjpc/zwag123/8496698?login=false
Mar 2
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The Little House I Built for Her
I didn’t expect a sheet of plywood to feel emotional.This Substack is reader-supported.
Mar 1
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