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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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.
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Cigarette Sales Increase as Vaping Bans Push People Back to Smoking
Many public health experts warned that banning vaping flavors would result in more adults smoking cigarettes.
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Montana Should Reject Proposed Ban on Flavored Vaping Products
Montana's Department of Public Health and Human Services is pushing to permanently ban e-cigarette flavors in the state.
