Guy Bentley
Director of Consumer Freedom , Reason Foundation
Guy Bentley is the director of consumer freedom at Reason Foundation.
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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.
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Putin’s War on Tobacco Would Be a Gift To Terrorists
More than 30 percent of Russian adults smoke, which is apparently so objectionable to a government reviled for human rights abuses and attacks on press freedom that total tobacco prohibition may now be on the cards.
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Thanks To Years of Misreporting, Public Mistrust of E-Cigarettes Jumps
An increasing number of people believe e-cigarettes are just as harmful as tobacco cigarettes, according to an alarming study
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Michelle Obama Partners With Left-Wing Food Activists
"By partnering with a radically left-wing activist group, rather than an organization focused on feeding hungry people, the First Lady further politicizes an issue that should be above partisan politics."
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The Media’s Uncritical Approach To E-Cigarettes Harms Public Health
If Americans needed any more reason to be skeptical of the media establishment they need look no further than the coverage given to the Surgeon General’s first-ever report into youth e-cigarette use.
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Surgeon General Abandons Public Health For E-Cigarette Hysteria
It is flat out wrong to describe vaping as a "form of tobacco use."
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Report: Tax-Hungry States Targeting E-Cigarettes Will Harm Public Health
Legislators pushing taxes on e-cigarettes could hurt smokers’ long-term health and state budgets.
