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Simon Chapman

Simon Chapman: Why is Big Tobacco investing in e-cigarettes?

March 20, 2014

Discussion about e-cigarettes on social media, the blogosphere, and vaping chatrooms is dominated by impassioned accounts from former, now vaping, smokers wanting to encourage smokers to do what they have […]

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Simon Chapman: Will vapers really “quit and (not) die?”

March 17, 2014

The public health appeal of vaping that emboldens its advocates to sanctimoniously taunt anyone unconvinced by their evangelism as callous “quit or die” moralists is that e-cigarettes are spectacularly promising […]

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Simon Chapman on e-cigarettes: the best and the worst case scenarios for public health

March 14, 2014

Use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigs or Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems—ENDS) is showing exponential increase in some nations. Their regular use remains marginal in Australia, where the sale of nicotine liquid […]

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Simon Chapman: When will the tobacco industry apologise for its galactic harms?

January 20, 2014

Last week, four US tobacco companies finally reached agreement with the US Department of Justice to fund large scale corrective advertising about five areas of tobacco control. Each advertisement will […]

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Simon Chapman: Publishing horror stories: Time to euthanase paper based journals?

September 27, 2013

Every researcher has exasperating stories of the glacial pace of research publication.  But as a former research journal editor of 17 years, I know that researchers’ ideas on what constitutes […]

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Simon Chapman: Sick and famous

July 22, 2010

Singer Cheryl Cole may turn out to be the most famous person to get malaria in 2010, but of course she’s not the only one. And more importantly, she’s hardly […]

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Simon Chapman and Becky Freeman: A light and mild settlement?

August 11, 2008

On July 31, two of Canada’s biggest tobacco companies, Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd and Rothmans Benson and Hedges Inc, agreed to pay $300 million in fines and an additional $815 […]

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Guest writers, Simon Chapmanaddiction, Canada, public health, tobacco control2 Comments

Simon Chapman: Conferences and carbon

April 18, 2008

Earlier this year I declined an invitation to fly all expenses from Sydney to Geneva to speak for 15 minutes at an international cancer conference. There was a hole in […]

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