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Ms Bauld is a proponent of anti-smoking tactics, publishing numerous papers that are distinctly anti-tobacco<ref>http://science.cancerresearchuk.org/research/who-and-what-we-fund/browse-by-location/stirling/university-of-stirling/publications/linda-bauld-22086</ref>.
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In a frenzy of hyperbole, she accused Pro-Smoking bloggers of a campaign of harassment<ref name="guardian">http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jun/01/pro-smoking-activists-health-campaigners</ref>:
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{{quote|Linda Bauld of Stirling University called the police last September when a pro-smoking blogger calling himself Frank Davis wrote that: "You should start worrying when bricks start getting thrown through your window or messages daubed on your door.<ref name="fd1">http://cfrankdavis.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/letter-to-linda/</ref>"<ref name="guardian" />}}
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The blog by Frank Davis may be found [http://cfrankdavis.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/letter-to-linda/ here]<ref name="fd1" />, and an update by Frank Davis after the Guardian article may be found [http://cfrankdavis.wordpress.com/2012/06/02/great-free-publicity/ here]<ref name="fd2">http://cfrankdavis.wordpress.com/2012/06/02/great-free-publicity/</ref>.
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As noted elsewhere however, there was no loud screaming from tobacco-control, of which Ms Bauld is a member, when articles, videos and even video games openly advocate the assaults<ref>http://www.prlog.org/10411925-nhs-trust-removes-latest-antismoking-propaganda.html</ref><ref>http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/Ciggy-film-draws-ire/story-12005016-detail/story.html</ref>, or even murder<ref>http://www.thefreesociety.org/Issues/Free-Speech/sniping-at-smokers</ref><ref>http://www.purely-games.com/smoker_sniper_game.html</ref>, of smokers.
  
 
== Conflicts of interest ==
 
== Conflicts of interest ==

Revision as of 18:00, 11 June 2012

Positions held

  • 1996 - 1997 - Lecturer, Department of Social Policy, University of Edinburgh. [1]
  • 1997 - 2000 - Research Fellow, Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU), University of Kent at Canterbury. [1]
  • 2000 - 2006 - Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow [1]
  • 2006 - 2010 - Reader and then Professor of Social Policy, Dept of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath [1]
  • 2011 - present - Professor, School of Management, University of Stirling [2]

Qualifications

BA (Hons) University of Toronto, 1993, PhD (Social Policy) University of Edinburgh, 1997. [1]

Views

Ms Bauld is a proponent of anti-smoking tactics, publishing numerous papers that are distinctly anti-tobacco[3].

In a frenzy of hyperbole, she accused Pro-Smoking bloggers of a campaign of harassment[4]:

Linda Bauld of Stirling University called the police last September when a pro-smoking blogger calling himself Frank Davis wrote that: "You should start worrying when bricks start getting thrown through your window or messages daubed on your door.[5]"[4]

The blog by Frank Davis may be found here[5], and an update by Frank Davis after the Guardian article may be found here[6].

As noted elsewhere however, there was no loud screaming from tobacco-control, of which Ms Bauld is a member, when articles, videos and even video games openly advocate the assaults[7][8], or even murder[9][10], of smokers.

Conflicts of interest

References