Peter Beckett - Clearing the Air

Taxes & Organized Crime: The Hidden Cost of EU Nicotine Policy

When it comes to taxing reduced-harm products, is the EU prioritizing public health, or just ignoring its own rules? We recently sat down with former EU tax official Donato Raponi, at the inaugural World Nicotine Congress, to unpack the complex and often…

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Inside the Lab with Chris Allen: What Is Actually in Your Vape?

What exactly is inside the vapes and nicotine pouches millions of adults use every day? In our latest episode of Clearing the Air, toxicologist Chris Allen takes us inside the lab to reveal the complex science of harm reduction and the shocking…

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Why Public Health Hates Consumers | Chris Snowdon on Clearing the Air

In this episode Peter Beckett sits down with Dr Christopher Snowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics at the Institute for Economic Affairs, to discuss whether or not nicotine is part of the culture war, or is it something that unites more than it…

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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.…

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OPINION: The Commission just buried its own report on tobacco law. Why?

The EU is right to be ashamed of its evaluation report on nicotine policy. Even its own watchdogs have disowned it. Two years ago, I wrote about the EU Commission burying its own smoking data, and opined on why they might have…

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Orbán loses in Hungary. Could this spell the end for Olivér Várhelyi as Health Commissioner?

The Hungarian Commissioner and Orbán loyalist has been at the vanguard of spreading outright falsehoods about safer nicotine products. Now Orbán is gone, will he go too? Many in Brussels were popping champagne last night as quasi-dictator Viktor Orbán was decisively ejected…

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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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Czech MEP disappoints with vape tax increase plan

The European Parliament’s lead legislator on the EU’s plans to levy higher taxes on safer nicotine products has shocked vapers by proposing to increase taxes on vapes in his report on the Commission’s plans to amend Europe’s tobacco and nicotine taxes. While…

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ANALYSIS: The EU will jumpstart its new rules on safer nicotine products next week. Here’s what to expect.

My sources in Brussels tell me that the European Commission’s report on how well its tobacco laws are doing should drop early spring. Maybe even as soon as March. This will be the starting gun in a race to overhaul the bloc’s…

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