IEA publishes “Nanny State on Tour” Courtesy of IEA The amount of UK foreign aid spent on nanny state interventions has skyrocketed, according to a new report from the Institute of Economic Affairs. Foreign aid has been instrumental in controlling and eradicating infectious conditions abroad, but British public health organisations have increasingly used the […]
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Don’t freak out over vaping, say UK docs
While U.S. regulators and public health officials have declared war on vaping, seemingly unmoved by its potential utility for harm reduction as an alternative to smoking, their British counterparts are considerably more sanguine, judging by their response to panicked reports of a handful of deaths […]
We Need A Rational Harm Reduction Strategy for Veterans’ Health
By Rory E. Riley-Topping, veterans’ advocate and TES Contributor The sentiment “horror vaccui,” which translates to “nature abhors a vacuum,” is usually attributed to Aristotle. The phrase loosely means that if you take something away, something else will naturally end up filling that space. In terms of military and foreign policy, […]
“We are clearly moving away from an evidence-based approach to regulation.”
By Erik Sass TES Editor One of the more confounding mysteries of U.S. public health regulation in recent years has been the crackdown on new forms of nicotine delivery, including e-cigarettes and vaping. On the face of it these new technologies, though still bad for human health, are vastly preferable to regular cigarettes, […]