Friday, 31 May 2013

It's Not Junk When WE Do It ... Again

Important new research on tobacco health warnings is just in from Canada ...
Warning Labels On Cigarettes Would Help Smokers Quit
A leading tobacco control researcher says the next step to encourage smokers to quit is to print warning labels on cigarettes. 
Massey’s new College of Health head Professor Paul McDonald, a world expert on smoking cessation, backs the Government’s plans to introduce unbranded tobacco packages with graphic warning images, saying it is the next logical step for cigarette packaging.
A "leading tobacco control" researcher says this? Well, that's it then, eh? I'll bet the research is sound and impeccably unchallengeable, so anyone with objections may as well pack up and go home.
The qualitative study surveyed 10 smokers ...
Oh dear.


Perhaps Simon should get on the dog and bone to this "leading tobacco control researcher" and tell him to stop publishing rotten "science", he being Editor Emeritus of the Journal of Tobacco Control, and all. 

Or do you kinda suspect this will be proudly published in Tobacco Control anyway and is just yet another example of "it's not junk when we do it"?

Good grief with tassels!