Guy Bentley is the director of consumer freedom at Reason Foundation.
Bentley's research focuses on the taxation and regulation of nicotine, tobacco, alcohol, and food. Before joining Reason Foundation, Bentley served as a reporter in London and Washington D.C.
Bentley's work has been featured in The Washington Post, USA Today, Forbes, Time, Business Insider, The Daily Beast, The New York Post, and other publications in the U.S. and U.K.
Bentley graduated with a bachelor's degree in politics and international relations from the University of Nottingham and is based in Washington D.C.
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Heat-Not-Burn Tobacco: The Next Wave Of A Harm-Reduction Revolution
A little-known tobacco technology, Heat-not-Burn (HNB), has the potential to slash smoking-related death and disease by appealing to the millions of smokers who've failed to quit using e-cigarettes and traditional nicotine-replacement therapies.
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How Trump’s FDA Pick Could Make it Easier for Americans to Quit Smoking
Left unchanged, the FDA's controversial deeming rule could remove up to 99 percent of vapor products from the market giving a major boost to big tobacco companies, according to Wells Fargo analyst Bonnie Herzog.
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How the CDC Masks the Truth about Smokeless Tobacco
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is misleading the public about the risks of smokeless tobacco in ways that are unethical and damaging to public health.
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A Modest Reform Could Mean Life or Death for the Vaping Industry
The e-cigarette industry is on the edge of a cliff, with Food and Drug Administration rules threatening to wipe out 10,000 small businesses and remove 99 percent of vapor products from the market in just 18 months' time.
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Hope for Vapers: New Bill Could Halt FDA E-Cigarette Prohibition
Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., and Rep. Sanford Bishop, D-Ga., introduced legislation in the House of Representatives on Thursday which, if adopted, could prevent the e-cigarette business from falling into a state of de facto prohibition.
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New Tobacco Technology Offers Huge Potential for Harm Reduction
A new generation of "heat-not-burn" tobacco products could offer of a breakthrough for harm reduction, appealing to smokers where e-cigarettes and nicotine replacement therapies have failed.
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What the US Can Learn From the UK about Vaping
According to the report, the number of vapers who now classify themselves as ex-smokers rose 10 percent in a year to 850,000 and 470 people a day switched exclusively to e-cigarettes in the last two years.
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Why Fake News Plagues the E-Cigarette Debate
The demand for bad vaping news is insatiable both amongst hacks and anti-e-cigarette fanatics, but unfortunately for this odd couple, the supply just isn't there.
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Merchants Of Doubt: How Public Health Uses Tobacco Tactics Against E-Cigarettes
Public mistrust of e-cigarettes is rising after years of misinformation and scaremongering from some of the nation's leading health bodies.
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How Trump Can Stop E-Cigarette Prohibition and Reform Public Health
Federal tobacco policy is failing the American public and destroying businesses across the country.
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FDA Must Come Clean About The Real Risks of Smokeless Tobacco
The Food and Drug Administration is failing to follow established ethical principles by leaving the public in the dark about the relative dangers of smokeless tobacco compared to cigarettes.
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E-Cigarettes Are Not Creating a New Generation of Smokers
The anti-vaping lobby is at it again, with a new study allegedly showing e-cigarettes encourage smoking and played no role in the recent and rapid declines in teen cigarette use.
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Raising The Vaping Age To 21 Risks Rise in Teen Smoking
It would appear foolish to deprive adult smokers under 21 the chance to switch to a reduced risk product.
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Health Group Attempts To Redefine Childhood With Push For Higher Smoking Age
Tobacco prohibition is now considered a key policy goal in the war on smoking, according to one of the country's leading public health groups.
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Cigarette Smuggling Surges As Taxes Near Prohibitive Levels
Soaring cigarette taxes are approaching prohibitive levels in many states inducing vast black markets for tobacco across the country.
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Huffington Post Author Claims Vaping Could Be Gateway To Drugs and Crime
E-cigarettes are under fire for being a possible gateway to a life of crime and crippling addiction to hard drugs in one of the most lurid attacks on the products yet.