Clive Bates
- Clive Bates
- July 8, 2023
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Clive Bates is the director of Counterfactual Consulting and the former director of Action on Smoking and Health (U.K.). On this page we feature a selection of his contributions to Tobacco Reporter.
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Realists and Idealists
Why we should celebrate ‘realists’ and beware of ‘idealists.’
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Tobacco Control’s Nervous Breakdown
Innovation in the recreational nicotine market is disrupting not just the industry.
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Organized Skepticism
How can the science of tobacco and nicotine serve the public good?
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Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory?
Will the European Union enable or obstruct the market-based demise of the cigarette?
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Eyes on the Ball
Officials should approach COP10 with clarity about their national goals and with tough questions about trade-offs, unintended consequences and evidence.
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Clive Bates
Read the work of Tobacco Reporter’s special contributor Clive Bates.
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Changing Gear
Clive Bates on how the tobacco industry can accelerate transformation
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Beyond Tobacco Harm Reduction
To see clearly into the decades ahead, we need to rethink nicotine.
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Surfing while Juggling
Five types of innovation
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Bad Science
What is bad science, and why is there so much of it?
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The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle
The idea that e-cigarette flavors hook kids is simple, compelling and false.
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Transformation and Its Enemies
Explaining the opposition to the industry’s diversification.
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How to Save 100 Million Lives
Innovation and creative destruction will render cigarettes obsolete—if we let it.
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Nicotine And The Weirdness Of Harm
The availability of nicotine with minimal harm justifies a rethink of our approach to this drug.
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Policy Masterstroke or Political Quagmire?
Rules to reduce nicotine in cigarettes are back on the agenda.
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The Takeaways
What lessons should regulators learn from the United States?
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Fighting The Wrong War
The automatic criticism of everything associated with tobacco is not merely misguided; it has the potential to do real harm.
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The Evil Twins
Prohibition and illicit trade
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Transformers Versus Abolitionists
The two camps in tobacco control
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For the Long Haul
Sustainability, strategy and survival in the tobacco market
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Fresh Thinking
The World Health Organization and tobacco policy: a seven-point reform agenda
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Innovation and its Enemies
Why public health campaigners remain so vehemently opposed to vapor products.
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The Irreconcilable Conflict Principle
Our contributor Clive Bates challenges the governing idea of tobacco control
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The Endgame Revisited
It is time to confront the fundamental confusion about the public health aims for tobacco and nicotine policy.
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The Unlikely Savior?
Smoking, nicotine and Covid-19: What is going on?
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After the Split
What does Brexit mean for tobacco and vaping?
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Merchants of Doubt
In the vaping debate, falsehood flies and the truth comes limping after it
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A rhetorical gambit
The absence of long-term studies does not justify stifling potentially less harmful nicotine products.
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Hold your fire
In debating the relative risks of nicotine products, one consideration trumps all others.
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The principle of proportionality
How to regulate reduced-risk products
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Mapping the future
Can there be an ethical tobacco company—and what would it do?
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The duty of curiosity
GTNF—where the tobacco industry goes to think