by Carl V Phillips
In case you missed it, I posted the new paper EP-ology and comments are welcome there. It is an upgrade of the report that appeared on this page a few months ago. Nothing really new, but more detail and analysis.
Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR)
THR is the public health strategy of encouraging smokers to switch to low-risk alternatives like smokeless tobacco and e-cigarettes. It is the only proven method for reducing smoking below about a fifth of the population once it becomes established. (So why would anyone be anti-THR? See the "About" page.)-
Recent Posts
- Peer review of: Charlotta Pisinger et al. (U Copenhagen public health), A conflict of interest is strongly associated with tobacco industry-favourable results, indicating no harm of e-cigarettes, Preventive Medicine 2018.
- Science Lesson: Conflating age with inevitable temporality (i.e., some things first occur in youth merely because youth comes first)
- My recent contribution to Clive’s weekly reading list
- Weekly reading: ~20 Nov 2018
- Peer review of: Linda Johnson et al. (Washington U med school), E-cigarette Usage Is Associated with Increased Past 12 Month Quit Attempts and Successful Smoking Cessation in Two U.S. Population-based Surveys, NTR 2018.
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a few comments by readers and other important people
The bullshitter's trick is to talk in generalities when questioned about details and to litigate trivia when questioned about principles. Nate Silver, via TwitterThey won't stop until we make them look like fools. posted by DC2 at e-cigarette-forum
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
Smoking cessation is so insidious. It just creeps up on you! by mav, from the comments, parodying claims of anti-THR activists
Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally. John Maynard Keynes
Opposition to THR is an entirely dishonest enterprise. from Phillips & Rodu submitted version of a recent paper, sadly removed due to a reviewer's objections
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; None but ourselves can free our minds. Bob Marley
The continuing scourge of [smoking]-produced disease is unlikely to yield to today’s "evidence-based" interventions. (scare quotes added) Kenneth E Warner; see post if the implications are not obvious
If someone says the sky is green, you prove that it’s actually blue, and the next day he comes back once again insisting that the sky is green, and this happens repeatedly, you eventually have to acknowledge that mannerly debate about the color of the sky just isn’t enough; you have to go meta, and talk about the fact that this guy and his friends just aren’t in the business of honest discussion. Paul Krugman
He who is merciful to the cruel will become cruel to the merciful. Ancient Midrash
