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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FDA Sued Over ‘Unconstitutional’ Rule that Threatens E-Cigarette Businesses
Food and Drug Administration rules threatening the survival of America's independent e-cigarette industry could be overturned if a new lawsuit filed by the nonprofit Pacific Legal Foundation proves successful.
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Why D.C.’s Proposed $2-a-Pack Increase in Cigarette Taxes is Wrong
The proposal to increase the District’s cigarette tax by $2 per pack may be one of the few tax hikes that could command more friends than enemies, but the D.C. Council should think twice before adopting the policy.
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Landmark E-Cigarette Report Explodes Myth that Vaping Is as Toxic as Smoking
A new report on the public health consequences of e-cigarettes finds there is conclusive evidence that e-cigarettes are less dangerous than regular cigarettes, and smokers who switch to vaping will reduce their exposure to lethal toxicants and carcinogens.
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Seattle’s Soda Tax Experiment Is Doomed to Fail
Seattle's press is abuzz with stories of sticker shock after residents headed to the grocery stores Jan. 1 and found the price of soda had skyrocketed thanks to the city's tax on sweetened beverages.
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Congress Should Repeal Sports Gambling Ban, Let California Chart its Own Path
Southern California is now home to two NFL teams. But if you want to bet on those teams, you’ll have to go to Las Vegas.
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Michael Bloomberg Wasted $10 Million Trying to Convince Chicago-Area Cook County to Keep its Soda Tax
Residents of Cook County, Ill. are celebrating a much-needed win for consumer freedom with the Board of Commissioners opting to repeal the sweetened beverage tax in a landslide vote of 15-2.
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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.
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Heat-Not-Burn Tobacco: The Next Wave Of A Harm-Reduction Revolution
A little-known tobacco technology, Heat-not-Burn (HNB), has the potential to slash smoking-related death and disease by appealing to the millions of smokers who've failed to quit using e-cigarettes and traditional nicotine-replacement therapies.
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How Trump’s FDA Pick Could Make it Easier for Americans to Quit Smoking
Left unchanged, the FDA's controversial deeming rule could remove up to 99 percent of vapor products from the market giving a major boost to big tobacco companies, according to Wells Fargo analyst Bonnie Herzog.
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How the CDC Masks the Truth about Smokeless Tobacco
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is misleading the public about the risks of smokeless tobacco in ways that are unethical and damaging to public health.
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A Modest Reform Could Mean Life or Death for the Vaping Industry
The e-cigarette industry is on the edge of a cliff, with Food and Drug Administration rules threatening to wipe out 10,000 small businesses and remove 99 percent of vapor products from the market in just 18 months' time.