If you have not already done so, please begin by reading the introduction to the BLOOMBERG BIRTHDAY INITIATIVE Please join the Bloomberg Birthday Initiative by sending Mr. Bloomberg a birthday card of your own. You can use this image, or … Continue reading →
The purposes of the Bloomberg Birthday Initiative are: 1) To wish Michael Bloomberg a very happy 80th birthday, on February 14th, 2022. 2) To congratulate him on his business and political successes and praise him for his generosity to many … Continue reading →
My friend Maria is an enthusiastic vaper. If I go to her office, she usually will have three vapes on the go. Today, it is a Voopoo with strawberry flavour, a Stlth with Grape Apple Ice and a Favostx with … Continue reading →
This is the full text of my submission to Health Canada in response to Order Amending Schedules 2 and 3 to the Tobacco and Vaping Products Act (Flavours) Canada Gazette Part I, Vol. 155, No. 25 on June 19th, 2021 … Continue reading →
In Canada, millions of smokers are using vaping as a way to reduce or quit smoking, and many have succeeded in switching completely from smoking to vaping, which has a very significant health benefit. If stores that sell tobacco products … Continue reading →
ve two groups of friends who share my enthusiasm for getting smokers to quit.
There are the members of the “medical establishment”, for want of a better word, represented by the good, dedicated and hard-working physicians, researchers and policy analysts who I met recently at the 12th Annual Ottawa conference for the Ottawa Model for Smoking Cessation.
And there is the “Vaping Advocacy” groups, represented on this occasion by Rights4Vapers but also by organizations such as Vaping Advocacy and Education Project. They should be working together instead of engaging in a “flame war”.
Continue reading →If you are a cigarette smoker, you know that the best thing you can do for your health in 2020 is to quit smoking. You have probably tried to quit many times. You probably tried going cold turkey. You probably … Continue reading →
At the moment we are suffering the maximum possible harm from e-cigs with the least possible benefit. Many teens are using an almost unregulated product which may be dangerous. They are getting addicted to nicotine, which encourages risk-taking behaviour and … Continue reading →
Am I worthy of your time and attention? Anyone with access to the Internet is permanently in a state of information overload. There is always email to read, web sites to visit, and things to download. TED talks and cute … Continue reading →
This is blog is always a work in progress and a learning experience, please excuse any errors or typos. I post intermittently on whatever takes my interest. Lately, a lot of my posts have been about tobacco control and vaping. … Continue reading →
