Neil Mckeganey

Why Academics Should Resist Pressure to Disengage with the Tobacco Industry

Sept. 27, 2016

The signatories’ concern is that the academics mere attendance, let alone participation, at this conference ‘could be detrimental to their own reputation and to the reputation of their affiliated ...

The Enjoyment of Smoking

Sept. 6, 2016

In research looking at the reasons why smokers are not interested in trying an e-cigarette, despite knowing that these devices are much less harmful than combusted tobacco, one of the most powerfu...

The Pleasure of E-cigarettes

April 28, 2016

That view is now looking both dangerous, in its potential to undermine the use of what is seen as a much less harmful product, and ideological in being rooted in a view that appears to be driven m...

Tobacco Industry Funded E-Cigarette Research and the Rise of Academic McCarthyism

Feb. 27, 2016

  McCambridge concedes that evidence of any current scientific misconduct on the part of the tobacco industry is “less strong”. However, in a world where allegation has supplanted evidence it is r...

Tobacco Control Research: A Tale of Two Delphi Groups

Sept. 9, 2015

The method that Nutt and colleagues used in this study was a continuation of earlier work in which they had used the approach of Multi-Criterion Decision Analysis (a form of the Delphi technique i...

When Public Health Harm Reduction Becomes Public Health Harm Promotion

June 22, 2015

The argument for such strident action seems to be that e-cigarettes are serving to renormalize smoking. For anybody seeking to promote evidence based public policy that anxiety, and the interventi...

Scary Monsters

Aug. 27, 2014

E-cigarettes are a good example of the narrative of fear in action. There are a whole host of things we do not know about e-cigarettes. We don’t know much about the impact of their long-term use (...

Why do we love tobacco plain packaging and hate e cigs?

May 13, 2014

It is striking that many of those in public health who are now cautioning against e-cigarettes are the same experts who had previously supported harm reduction in relation to illegal drug use. Ove...