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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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.
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Thanks To Years of Misreporting, Public Mistrust of E-Cigarettes Jumps
An increasing number of people believe e-cigarettes are just as harmful as tobacco cigarettes, according to an alarming study
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Michelle Obama Partners With Left-Wing Food Activists
"By partnering with a radically left-wing activist group, rather than an organization focused on feeding hungry people, the First Lady further politicizes an issue that should be above partisan politics."
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The Media’s Uncritical Approach To E-Cigarettes Harms Public Health
If Americans needed any more reason to be skeptical of the media establishment they need look no further than the coverage given to the Surgeon General’s first-ever report into youth e-cigarette use.
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Surgeon General Abandons Public Health For E-Cigarette Hysteria
It is flat out wrong to describe vaping as a "form of tobacco use."
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Report: Tax-Hungry States Targeting E-Cigarettes Will Harm Public Health
Legislators pushing taxes on e-cigarettes could hurt smokers’ long-term health and state budgets.