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Liverpool’s plan to denormalise smoking
Liverpool’s £2m plan to tackle the cities biggest preventable killer
BAT urging government crack down on vapes, why?
BAT seeing how disposable vapes eating into their profits now urge the government to crack down on them
Hundreds of suicides from gambling and an indifferent industry
The shocking indifference of the gambling industry when they knowingly drive consumers into debt often causing suicide
Football players wish they never started snus
The repeatable pattern of nicotine addicts wishing they never started now seen in football players that popularised the use of snus among young people
Are scandals inherent to modern capitalism?
Do the incentives of modern capitalism drive scandals like the post office, if not why do we not learn from our mistakes.
Behavioral science constricting the lens to the individual
How behavioural science constricts how we look at how behaviour is shaped; focusing on the individual rather than wider environmental factors
Regulators shifting attitudes towards industry
How relationships with industry have gone from partnership to no connection
15th letter to the FT
Comparing AI to cigarette companies through the addiction economy lens
Deny, Denounce and Delay
The 3 Ds of the addiction economy, how addictive industries undermine political action
Addiction Economy industries lack of trust
Addiction economy industries showing they are inherently untrustworthy
The making of ‘lifestyle addictions’
A classic example of how nicotine companies shape their products for recreational use
10 Lessons for UPF Campaigners from The Addiction Economy
10 lessons learnt from the Addiction Economy applied to UPF
How viewing addiction as a disease hampers action
The UK childhood obesity epidemic showing us that seeing addiction as a moral failing leads to ineffective responses
Naloxone made available at home
A good response to the moral model of addiction; Life saving drug Naloxone made available without prescription for use at home
Ignore the McHaters & focus on ‘human truths’.
in 1992 Super-Sized Me shocked the world. But didn’t damage McDonald’s bottom line which has grown by 1000% since then. How? Predatory Marketing.
Calculate the cost to society of cigs in your area
Cool Ash Ready Reckoner so you can calculate the cost to society of cigarettes in your area.
Chemicals in vapes could be highlight toxic
New study on lung toxicity and vapes. Something we have been banging on about for ages.
Smoking is Awesome - new vid for young people
Interesting new vid from cool science communication company Kurzgesagt, (In a Nutshell' in German) controversial here in showing honest info about smoking. Too ‘pro’ you decide!
PM questioned over vape sponsorship of sports kit
Blackburn Rovers sponsored by vape company - should it be allowed. No says us, Addiction Economy 101.