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In this insightful interview, Hayley van Loon, CEO of Crime Stoppers International, details the alarming convergence of organised crime and state actors across global illicit trades, particularly focusing on the illicit tobacco industry. She highlights how this $4.2 trillion "Illegal Empire" is…
Can Ozempic Help You Quit Smoking? A Cardiologist Explains
We sat down with Dr. Rohan Sequeira, a cardio-endocrinologist, at the recent World NIcotine Congress, to discuss his involvement in Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) and its potential synergy with GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic for addressing public health challenges. The conversation covers the…
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FDA’s first fruit-flavoured vape approval exposes the flaw in America’s anti-flavour policy
The FDA’s first authorisation of fruit-flavoured vapes should be a turning point in America’s long-running battle over nicotine policy. Instead, it has exposed just how confused that policy has become.
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A new vape study is fuelling fresh fears about toxic metals - but experts say the science behind the headlines is far less clear.
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Smoke-free by 2040 within reach – but only with wider access to safer nicotine alternatives
A global smoking rate below 5% by 2040 is described as “a realistic, measurable and equitable target”
Current tobacco control measures alone are unlikely to reduce smoking fast enough
Wider access to “regulated smoke-free nicotine alternatives” could accelerate declines significantly
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20,000 sign petition to protect vapes
Almost 20,000 people have signed an online petition against a crackdown on vapes in Europe that would put “millions of lives” at risk.
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The EU’s Bloomberg Report Part 2
Conflicts of interest, a pervasive bias and corruption at the heart of the European Commission’s tobacco and nicotine policy guidance document
In Part 1, we looked at how the European Commission tender for a Single Framework Contract for Support Actions in the Field…
The EU’s Bloomberg Report Part 1
The corruption behind the group providing policy guidance against tobacco harm reduction
Brussels has today received a report evaluating whether the EU needs to update its rules on tobacco and nicotine. Far from a dispassionate review of the evidence, what we have…