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Smoke-Free or Nicotine-Free? Clive Bates Unpacks the Split in Tobacco Harm Reduction
Public health advocate Clive Bates, founder of the influential blog The Counterfactual, joins Clearing the Air's Peter Beckett for a candid discussion on the current battles in the world of tobacco harm reduction.
Peter Beckett: Clive, welcome to Clearing the Air.…
The EU’s ‘Dangerous Tune’: Charlie Weimers on How the Commission is Sacrificing Lives for Ideology
In this episode of Clearing the Air, host Peter Beckett sits down with Swedish MEP Charlie Weimers to dive into the latest friction over EU nicotine regulation. They skip the basics and get straight into why the Commission’s current trajectory is so…
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State backing may be key to vape-assisted quitting, commentary says
England’s “Swap to Stop” scheme was linked to a rise in vape-assisted quit attempts
Around 125,000 additional attempts were estimated in the first year
Researchers suggest government backing may influence perceptions and behaviour
The programme may act both as a practical intervention…
Vaping overtakes smoking for the first time in UK, CoEHAR analysis shows
Vaping has surpassed smoking in Great Britain for the first time on record
10.0% of adults now use vapes, compared with 9.1% who smoke
Smoking has halved since 2011, falling from 20.2% to 10.6%
The vast majority of people who vape are…
Vaping rises as smoking declines to record low, new CDC data shows
Cigarette smoking in the United States has fallen to its lowest level on record, as vape use continues to rise, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The report found that 9.8 per cent of U.S.…
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Have your say in the Australian Senate Vaping Inquiry
Vapers are being urged to send a submission to the Senate Vaping Inquiry in Australia to oppose a new national vape ban.
Voices of Harm Reduction Pt 3: Sairah Salim-Sartoni
Sairah Salim-Sartoni has 16 years’ experience as a stop smoking advisor in the UK; first for the National Health Service and then for local authority stop smoking clinics. She went on to work for Juul Labs on scientific engagement, and now consults…
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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…