New research suggests badly designed nicotine taxes could backfire by narrowing the price gap between smoking and lower-risk products
Governments have used cigarette taxes for decades to reduce smoking. The logic is that if cigarettes cost more, fewer people will buy them.…
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.
The US Food and Drug Administration has authorised four vaping products from…
The WHO is urging governments to consider strict regulation - and potentially bans - on nicotine pouches, warning they risk creating “a new generation” addicted to nicotine
The report argues nicotine pouches are being marketed with “youthful themes”, sweet flavours and “discreet”…
A major US study found 94% of smokers who do not vape believe vaping is at least as harmful as smoking cigarettes
Misperceptions were even higher among older smokers, Black smokers and people with lower levels of education
Researchers warned these beliefs…
New Zealand has cut its smoking rate almost in half in just six years, with vaping playing a central role in one of the world’s fastest declines in cigarette use.
A major new report on global tobacco harm reduction says New Zealand’s…
A major new review of US vaping research is raising uncomfortable questions about how some of the most influential studies on vaping and smoking cessation are designed - and whether they may be systematically overlooking people who successfully stop smoking by switching…
Belgium will ban flavoured vapes from 1 September 2028, in a move ministers say is aimed at reducing youth uptake.
The decision, approved by the federal government, means only tobacco or neutral flavours will be permitted. Popular options such as bubblegum, cola…
A new vape study is fuelling fresh fears about toxic metals - but experts say the science behind the headlines is far less clear.
Published in Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, the research explored whether metals from vape aerosol can build up in…
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
Evidence from…
