This week, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden revealed Sen. Kamala Harris of California as his running mate for the November general election against President Donald Trump. Because Harris’ influence on the Biden campaign will loom large, and be important to whomever American voters choose in the fall, it’s worth looking at some of her ideas […]
Yaël on Joe Catenacci Show: Spanish Caliphate, Brexit Day, and Breaking Down Coronavirus
Consumer Choice Center Deputy Director Yaël Ossowski on The Joe Catenacci Show. Topics discussed: Yaël reports from Córdoba, Spain: The History of Islamic Spain and the Moors Brexit Day: What happens when the clock runs out Free Trade coming? The WHO cares more about vaping than coronavirus China’s crackdown on people sharing virus info shows […]
Trump’s New Vaping Ban: What Gives?
The Trump Administration has come out with new rules to ban all pod vape flavors except for tobacco and menthol. What does this mean for the future of harm reduction and innovation? Broadcast on January 3, 2019, on The Big Talker 106.7FM on the Joe Catenacci Show.
Nicotine is Not Your Enemy
In the fourth season of the popular show Mad Men, creative advertising executive Donald Draper pens a page-long ad in the New York Times explaining why he’s “quit tobacco.” A long time creative force in pushing cigarettes in popular media, he decides he’s had a change of heart when it comes to the dangerous effects […]
San Francisco vape ban embraces harm over science
In an attempt to curb youth vaping, the Board of Supervisors of the city of San Francisco voted yesterday to ban all sales of vaping devices and e-cigarettes. The ban was passed unanimously and will apply to the sales and distribution of e-cigarettes once it has final approval. The ban was counterproductive and took the […]
WHO’s afraid of vaping
The war on vaping is a threat to public health (photo via vaping360) By Yaël Ossowski | spiked For the second time in two years, I sat in the public gallery at a United Nations conference in Geneva as a senior UN bureaucrat told us that all members of the media and public were to […]
Canada Can Lead The Way On Pot, Vapes and Plain Packs
The world is paying attention to Canada right now. Two very important pieces of legislation on consumer products are being debated, which could provide many lessons for the world. House Bill C-45, the world’s most extensive cannabis legalization and the first for a country in the G7, successfully passed on November 28 and goes to […]
Why Fewer Canadians Are Using Tobacco
Despite the millions in proposed new spending for getting Canadians unhooked off tobacco, fewer Canadians are lighting up. Just 17.7 percent of Canadians smoked daily or occasionally in 2015, according to the Canadian Community Health Survey released last week. That’s down from 18.1 per cent the previous year. Those results were revealed at the same […]
Harm reduction for tobacco addicts – plain packaging doesn’t work
In countries such as Canada, France, the United Kingdom, and South Africa, measures aimed at reducing smoking and tobacco use are on the primary docket. Chief in each government’s arsenal is a requirement that cigarette and tobacco products be subject to plain packaging, with all cigarette logos and designs excluded and graphic warnings taking up […]
Vaping May Win The Fight Against Underage Smoking
In countries such as Canada, France, the United Kingdom, and South Africa, measures aimed at reducing smoking and tobacco use are on the primary docket. Chief in each government’s arsenal is a requirement that cigarette and tobacco products be subject to plain packaging, with all cigarette logos and designs excluded and graphic warnings taking up […]