• Air Traffic Control
  • Govt Finance Report
  • Pension Reform
  • Events
  • Reason facebook
  • Reason twitter
  • Reason youtube
Reason Foundation
  • About
    • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Email Newsletters
    • Events
    • FAQs
    • Jobs & Internships
    • Savas Award
    • Shop
    • Staff
    • Trustees & Officers
  • Experts

      Browse Our Experts

      • Aaron Smith
        Director of Education Reform
      • Adrian Moore
        Vice President of Policy
      • Baruch Feigenbaum
        Senior Managing Director, Transportation Policy
      • Geoff Lawrence
        Research Director
      • Guy Bentley
        Director of Consumer Freedom
      • Leonard Gilroy
        Vice President of Government Reform
      • Robert Poole
        Director of Transportation Policy
      • Vittorio Nastasi
        Director of Criminal Justice Policy
      • View All Experts
  • Topics

      Browse Our Topics

      • Air Traffic Control
      • Annual Highway Report
      • Consumer Freedom
      • Criminal Justice Reform
      • Drug Policy
      • Education
      • Gov’t Financial Transparency
      • Pension Reform
      • Technology
      • Transportation
      • Urban Growth and Land Use
      • View All Topics
  • Publications
    • Latest
    • Government Financial Project
    • Annual Highway Report
    • Annual Pension Report
    • Annual Privatization Report
    • Aviation Newsletter
    • Backgrounders
    • Commentaries
    • Data Visualization
    • Education Newsletter
    • Email Newsletters
    • Pension Reform Newsletter
    • Policy Studies
    • Psychedelics Newsletter
    • Public Schools Without Boundaries
    • Testimony
    • Transportation Newsletter
    • Amicus Briefs
  • Reason.com
  • Donate
    • Donate Online
    • Donate Crypto
    • Ways To Give
    • Torchbearer Society
    • Planned Giving

Topics › Consumer Freedom

Consumer Freedom

  • Alcohol
  • Censorship and Media
  • Guns
  • Obesity
  • Smoking Bans and Tobacco
  • Vaping, E-Cigarettes

Why the World Health Organization’s anti-nicotine policy could keep millions smoking

Why the World Health Organization’s anti-nicotine policy could keep millions smoking

By Guy Bentley

If these recommendations are put in place, they could discourage millions of smokers from switching to safer alternatives.

Legal sports betting didn’t create corruption. It exposed it.
Legal sports betting didn’t create corruption. It exposed it.

By Guy Bentley

The FDA’s plan to fast-track nicotine pouches is long overdue. But why aren’t vapes included?
The FDA’s plan to fast-track nicotine pouches is long overdue. But why aren’t vapes included?

By Michelle Minton

Evidence, not fear, should guide the FDA’s vaping policies
Evidence, not fear, should guide the FDA’s vaping policies

By Layal Bou Harfouch

How the One Big Beautiful Bill Act taxes gamblers on money they didn’t keep
How the One Big Beautiful Bill Act taxes gamblers on money they didn’t keep

By Michelle Minton

  • Supreme Court erodes online privacy and free speech in age verification ruling
    Supreme Court erodes online privacy and free speech in age verification ruling

    Commentary by Nicole Shekhovtsova and Richard Sill

  • Legal gambling enhances sports integrity—despite what critics claim
    Legal gambling enhances sports integrity—despite what critics claim

    Commentary by Michelle Minton

  • Nicotine pouch taxes undermine efforts to help smokers quit
    Nicotine pouch taxes undermine efforts to help smokers quit

    Commentary by Guy Bentley

  • Prisons selling vapes? Smart public health policy and a step toward autonomy behind bars
    Prisons selling vapes? Smart public health policy and a step toward autonomy behind bars

    Commentary by Michelle Minton

  • Trump should end WHO’s sway over the FDA
    Trump should end WHO’s sway over the FDA

    Commentary by Guy Bentley

  • The AMA’s misleading narrative on vaping harms public health
    The AMA’s misleading narrative on vaping harms public health

    Commentary by Jacob James Rich

  • New data shows no surge in problem gambling following sports betting expansion
    New data shows no surge in problem gambling following sports betting expansion

    Commentary by Michelle Minton

  • The failure of Massachusetts’ tobacco flavor ban
    The failure of Massachusetts’ tobacco flavor ban

    Commentary by Guy Bentley

  • Will Martin Makary’s FDA listen to the evidence on e-cigarettes?
    Will Martin Makary’s FDA listen to the evidence on e-cigarettes?

    Commentary by Layal Bou Harfouch

Consumer Freedom Policy Studies

  • Study: Menthol cigarettes do not increase youth smoking more than other cigarettes
    Study: Menthol cigarettes do not increase youth smoking more than other cigarettes

    Policy Study by Guy Bentley and Jacob James Rich

  • Antitrust policy: The challenge of high-tech digital platforms
    Antitrust policy: The challenge of high-tech digital platforms

    Policy Study by Thomas Hazlett

  • Flavored products play an important role in tobacco harm reduction
    Flavored products play an important role in tobacco harm reduction

    Backgrounder by Guy Bentley

More Consumer Freedom

  • Prev
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • ...
  • 30
  • Next

Follow

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • YouTube
  • RSS

Email Updates

Get weekly updates from Reason.

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

More About Reason Foundation

  • About
  • Contact
  • Donate
  • Email Newsletters
  • Events
  • Jobs and Internships
  • Policy Research
  • Reason magazine
  • Shop

Contact

Reason Foundation
5737 Mesmer Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90230
(310) 391-2245

1630 Connecticut Ave NW
Suite 600
Washington, DC 20009
(202) 986-0916

Privacy Policy
Accessibility

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

 
 
Copyright © 2025 Reason Foundation