Michael McGrady

    Michael is a journalist and researcher. His work has been supported by the Knowledge-Action-Change Tobacco Harm Reduction Scholarship program; the independently administered scholarship is supported by a grant from the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. Michael is also the journalist-in-residence and visiting research fellow in tobacco and drug harm reduction policy at the American Consumer Institute, Center for Citizen Research. He conducts consumer-oriented and behavior research on the impacts of public health regulations on people who use drugs, especially nicotine. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Hill and the South China Morning Post. He lives in Colorado.

    Very Few Countries Track Smoking Rates Among Indigenous Peoples 

    All over the world, few countries are taking the trouble to monitor smoking prevalence ...

    What It’s Like to Be a Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocate in Taiwan

    Vaping captures headlines in the United States, where outcry over a perceived youth “epidemic” ...

    Tobacco Harm Reduction’s Prospects Under the Biden Administration

    Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will assume the offices of president and vice president ...

    Youth Vaping Declines, But the CDC Clings to Its “Epidemic” Narrative

    On September 9, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published their latest ...

    The Potential and Pitfalls of Providing Vapes to Incarcerated People

    How much good can vaping do in a carceral setting? Smoking rates in prisons ...

    In the UK National Health Service, Staffers Benefit From Subsidized Vapes

    Vaping is perceived differently across the pond. Instead of portraying it as a trap ...

    The Damage to Vape Shops Deemed “Non-Essential”—And Their Customers

    People who rely on vapes and other reduced-risk nicotine products—overwhelmingly former smokers, or those ...

    COVID-19 and Tobacco Harm Reduction: What’s the Relationship?

    At publication time, over 113,000 people worldwide were known to be infected by the ...

    Do Anti-Vaping Ads and Media Actually Encourage Youth Vaping?

    In the wake of last year’s EVALI lung injury outbreak and a raft of ...

    How the British Approach to Vaping Puts the US to Shame

    Over the summer, US media reported that two National Health Service hospitals in England ...

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