Guy Bentley
Director of Consumer Freedom, Reason Foundation
Guy Bentley is director of consumer freedom at Reason Foundation, a nonprofit think tank advancing free minds and free markets.
Bentley's research focuses on the taxation and regulation of nicotine, tobacco, alcohol, food, and marijuana.
Prior to joining Reason Foundation, Bentley served as a reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation covering e-cigarettes, tobacco, food, alcohol, and the public health movement. He also worked for the London-based business and finance newspaper City A.M. with a focus on tobacco, gambling, and vapor products. He was also a contributor to the 2016 Adam Smith Institute report Sinnovation: How markets can solve public health problems - but government gets in the way.
Bentley's work has been featured in USA Today, Forbes, Time, Business Insider, The Daily Beast, The New York Post, and many other publications in the US and UK.
Bentley graduated with a bachelor's degree in Politics and International Relations from the University of Nottingham and is currently based in Washington D.C.
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San Francisco, Flavored Vapes, and the Next Prohibition Disaster
If passed, Proposition E will prohibit not just the sale of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars but also flavored e-cigarette products.
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Chuck Schumer Trades the War on Drugs for a War on Vaping
Nothing truly counts as a moral panic until Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer appoints himself the head of it.
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Legalized Sports Betting: The Best Defense Against Corruption
The Supreme Court has given states the opportunity to improve sporting life in America.
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Prohibition All Over Again — This Time, for Cigarettes
The Food and Drug Administration is taking the first step down a regulatory road that ends with prohibition.
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The Feds Ignore Facts in Crusade Against Smoking, and it’s Harmful to Consumers
FDA Commissioner Gottlieb is making headlines on slashing nicotine in cigarettes and regulating flavored tobacco products.