Guy Bentley
Director of Consumer Freedom , Reason Foundation
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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Rhode Island Should Focus on Tobacco Harm Reduction, Not E-Cigarette Flavor Bans
Legislation in Rhode Island would give smokers access to e-cigarettes as a tool to quit smoking while ensuring youth are prohibited from purchasing vaping products.
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Californians Get to Vote on State’s Ban of Flavored Tobacco Products
In the Nov. 2022 election, Californians will decide whether to ban the sale of nearly all flavored tobacco products.
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Testimony: Maryland Should Look to Massachusetts’ Experience with Statewide Flavor Tobacco Ban
Prohibitions on flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes, could negatively impact public health and important criminal justice reforms.
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Maryland Should Reject Unfair and Ineffective Flavored Tobacco Ban
A ban on flavored tobacco products could negatively impact public health and criminal justice reforms in Maryland.
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Testimony: New Hampshire Should Reject Proposed Ban on Flavored Vaping Products
The prohibition of flavored e-cigarette products could harm public health and fail to achieve its purpose.
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Testimony: Maryland’s Flavored Tobacco Ban Could Have Negative Public Health, Criminal Justice Ramifications
The prohibition will most likely promote further inequalities in the criminal justice system, push tax revenue to surrounding states, increase the illicit tobacco trade, and fail to improve public health.
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The Failures of Flavored Tobacco Bans
Massachusetts is learning how ineffective its ban on all flavored tobacco products has been.
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In 2020, Congress Replaced the War on Marijuana With a War on Flavored Tobacco Products
The House of Representatives just got it right on marijuana. On tobacco, the good news is that vaping dropped dramatically this year and youth smoking is at historic lows.
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The Negative Impacts of Massachusetts’ Flavored Tobacco Ban
Cigarette sales skyrocketed in neighboring states and the new black market will result in more overpolicing of minority communities.
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Washington, D.C.’s Initiative 81 Represents Progress Towards Ending the War on Drugs
The ballot initiative demands the use, possession, and cultivation of small amounts of entheogenic plants like magic mushrooms be downgraded to law enforcement's lowest priority.
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South Dakota Ballot Initiative Analysis: Amendment B (2020)
South Dakota's Amendment B would legalize sports betting in Deadwood, South Dakota.
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Colorado Ballot Initiative Analysis: Proposition EE (2020)
Proposition EE would raise taxes on cigarettes and tobacco and create a new tax on nicotine to cover products such as e-cigarettes.
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Colorado Ballot Initiative Analysis: Amendment C (2020)
Colorado's Amendment C would change the state constitution to allow charities that have existed for three years to obtain a gaming license.
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Oklahoma Ballot Initiative Analysis: State Question 814 (2020)
Oklahoma's Question 814 would decrease payments made to the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust Fund and directs the legislature to appropriate money from the fund to secure federal matching funds for the state's Medicaid program.
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Oregon Ballot Initiative Analysis: Measure 108 (2020)
Oregon's Measure 108 would increase taxes on traditional cigarettes and e-cigarettes.
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Washington D.C. Ballot Initiative Analysis: Initiative 81 (2020)
Initiative 81 would ask that D.C. law enforcement treat the use, possession, non-commercial cultivation, and distribution of psychedelic plants as one of its lowest priorities.
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How the FDA Is Saving the Cigarette
The traditional cigarette will receive the greatest boost it has gotten in many years thanks to federal law and a federal agency that is supposed to be focused on the protection of public health.
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Watch Experts Discuss How Unintended Consequences of Vaping Bans Hurt Public Health
Vaping prohibitions also contribute to over-criminalization and the over-policing of minority communities in your city and state.
