by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Feb 21, 2024 | Conflicts of Interest, death, Discursive Gap, duh, e-waste, Industrial Epidemics, Industry Documents, Perverse Incentives, Priorities, Public Health, Publications, Tobacco Industry
A new article I wrote with colleagues at the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education (CTCRE) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has just been published in BMJ Global Health. It investigates the multi-decade plan of various tobacco...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 19, 2022 | beyond liberalism, Discursive Gap, duh, e-waste, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, Extended Producer Responsibility, Fake Freedoms, Industrial Epidemics, object-oriented-ontology, philosophy of science, pollution, Public Health, Publications, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Unpleasant Design
smartphone tombstones Is programming premature product lifespans a form of corporate crime? This the question that Lieselot Bisschop, Jelle Jaspers, and I address in our new publication in the journal of Crime, Law and Social Change. Planned obsolescence is a core...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 3, 2022 | Conflicts of Interest, e-waste, Fake Freedoms, Harm Reduction, Industrial Epidemics, parasitism, Public Health, Publications, Side-effects, Syndemics, Tobacco Industry, Verschlimmbessern, Wolves in sheep's clothing
One of my old colleagues, a lawyer at UCSF once said that the tobacco industry finds loopholes in the law and exploits them until someone closes them. And then moves onto the next one. Our new Open Access paper in Tobacco Control discusses some of these problems....
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 6, 2019 | beyond idealism, Discursive Gap, e-waste, Extended Producer Responsibility, Greenwashing, Industrial Epidemics, normalization, pollution, Publications, Side-effects, Systems thinking, Tobacco Industry
In the flurry of the semester starting, I’ve been remiss in updating this blog with a couple important articles that have come out in the press discussing the environmental harms of electronic cigarette (ecig) electronic waste (ewaste). Both The Guardian and...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jul 29, 2019 | Bureaucratic quixotic, e-waste, exploitation, Extended Producer Responsibility, Fake Freedoms, folly, Industrial Epidemics, Perverse Incentives, pollution, Syndemics, Tobacco Industry
About a decade ago, the “American Vaping Association” railed against RJReynolds (later RAI, now part of British American Tobacco (BAT)) for attempting to persuade the FDA to “ban the sale of open-system e-cigarettes, including all component...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Oct 15, 2018 | beyond idealism, e-waste, Extended Producer Responsibility, Industrial Epidemics, Publications, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Tobacco Industry, Uncategorized
My op-ed in the American Journal of Public Health that appeared this week discusses the new tobacco waste stream of electronic cigarette waste. Electronic waste is already the fastest growing waste stream globally. Creating a new product that has no current...
