James Nicholls

6 days ago | tandfonline.com | James Morris |James Nicholls

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image sizeDisclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s). Notes1 Morris et al. described legislation as a ‘primary’ factor in smoking declines, which Vanyukov and Kirisci misrepresent as meaning “separate”. The term primary was not used by Morris et al. to imply a “separation” of norms and legislation; a primary causal factor does not preclude secondary or other factors as separate.

1 month ago | tandfonline.com | Megan Cook |James Nicholls |Gemma Mitchell |Rachel O’Donnell

AbstractBackground In Great Britain, local authorities responsible for alcohol premises licensing produce a statement of licensing policy setting out how they intend to exercise their statutory licensing functions including on trading hours. We aimed to describe and compare these policies on alcohol trading hours, including their interpretation and application of laws and guidance. Methods Policies were obtained from the websites of all 366 local licensing authorities and uploaded to NVivo.

1 month ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Anna M. Kearns |Heather Johnston |Jéssica Fenker |James Nicholls

1 Introduction Climate change has historically had diverse impacts on the evolution of the world's biota (Booth et al. 2022; Byrne et al. 2008; Hewitt 2004; Johnson and Cicero 2004; Rix et al. 2014; Weir and Schluter 2004). During the Pleistocene (2.5 million to 11,700 years ago), climates oscillated between glacial maxima (GM) when temperatures were cooler and sea-levels were lower and interglacials (IG) when temperatures were warmer and sea-levels were higher (Hope et al. 2004; Naish et al.

2 months ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | James Nicholls |Geoffrey Hunt

There is an appetite for further research on alcohol and pleasure, focusing on both theoretical and practical considerations. The complexity of the issues involved means such research will, by necessity, involve interdisciplinary collaborations. The responses to our article highlight several promising directions this work could take. We thank our commentators for their thoughtful reflections on how alcohol research can better engage with pleasure.

Jan 9, 2025 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | James Nicholls |Geoffrey Hunt

INTRODUCTION Alcohol research has a problem with pleasure. On the one hand, pleasure is a difficult phenomenon to research, at least from an epidemiological or clinical perspective. On the other, because of its predominating focus on harms, public health-oriented alcohol research and advocacy can appear to find pleasure problematic in the moral sense.