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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The FDA Has a Golden Opportunity to Save Smokers’ Lives
Back in July, the Food and Drug Administration committed itself to a new strategy to tackling smoking.
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Gambling is Good for Us (At Least Economically)
Every major sporting event and the surge of betting that accompanies it serves to highlight the absurd state of America's outdated and counterproductive prohibition on sports betting.
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One Way the FDA Can Demonstrate It Is Serious About Saving Lives
Smokers deserve access to safer, noncombustible nicotine products, and the public and health professionals need information about the relative risks of different products.
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Comment to FDA on Modified Risk Tobacco Product Application
The MRTP pathway is critically important toward reducing the toll of smoking on the U.S. population.
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How the Race in Tobacco Innovation is a Win for Public Health
Heat Not Burn (HNB), a new line of nicotine-free products by Tobacco Companies, reach out to a new demographic of smokers who are health conscious.
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Why Banning Vaping Products Hurts Public Health
Vaping bans are harmful to the goal of reducing smoking.
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New York Times Editorial Shoots at Big Tobacco, Hits Innocent Vapers Instead
The editorial board of the New York Times found itself in the curious position Wednesday of attacking Big Tobacco by supporting regulations that wipe out the industry's main competitors in the e-cigarette/vaping industry.
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Discrimination, Bad Science, and Spying Neighbors Plague Unprecedented California Tobacco Law
Back in January, the city council passed an unprecedented anti-smoking ordinance that hands landlords arbitrary power over their tenants, targets the poor, and could actually harm public health.