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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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.
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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.