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Vapor Is Not Smoke
A genealogy of a regulatory reflex; a reading of Roberto Sussman
 • Claudio Teixeira
The Error of Equivalence
About Nicotine Pouches: What Farsalinos’s Review Reveals When Combustion Leaves the Equation.
 • Claudio Teixeira
The Tilted Mirror, the Invisible Reader
What George J. Borjas and Nate Breznau’s reanalysis reveals about the invisible path that turns data into evidence
 • Claudio Teixeira
England, After the Smoke
Cigarettes are receding, but the air remains heavy with deeper dilemmas: pleasure, risk, and control.
 • Claudio Teixeira
The Man with the Scale: David Nutt and the Weight of Things
In a debate ruled by symbols and safety-first platitudes, one scientist insists on measurement. On distinctions. On human consequences. And is ignored…
 • Claudio Teixeira
The Year We Banned the Wrong Thing
An intimate and political retrospective of 2025.
 • Claudio Teixeira
The Purity Regime: Doctrine
(3/3): When risk becomes identity and control becomes virtue, the treaty no longer regulates — it preaches.
 • Claudio Teixeira
The Purity Regime: Shielding
(2/3): Behind closed doors, the glossary becomes a wall. What cannot be said, cannot be heard — and what cannot be heard, does not exist.
 • Claudio Teixeira
The Purity Regime: Liturgy
(1/3): After COP11, the treaty stands still, like scripture. Around it, power flows — fluid, moralized, perilously clean.
 • Claudio Teixeira
Smoke in Peers: The Lab-Crafted Thermal Failure
A technical paper on e-cigarettes quietly dismantles the experimental foundation of part of the risk literature, and suggests we may be measuring burnt…
 • Claudio Teixeira
The Mosaic and the Non‑Accidental Convergence
When health policy is confused with prohibition, public health becomes a tool of governance.
 • Claudio Teixeira
To Prohibit, To Punish, To Disappear: The Mexican State and the Fiction of Public Health
ACT I The chamber’s cold lights carve angular shadows on faces caught in perpetual motion: clenched jaws, arched brows, fingers tapping a quiet…
 • Claudio Teixeira
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