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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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.