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Prof. Tikki Pang – WHO’s Harm Reduction Blind Spot.

Former WHO director Professor Tikki Pang says the organisation has developed a dangerous blind spot on tobacco harm reduction. In this interview, he explains why evidence is being ignored and what it would take to force reform. Peter Beckett: Tikki Pang, thank…

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OPINION: The EU Parliament doesn’t want a new nicotine tax law. But that’s not what really matters.

There’s nothing more annoying than writing an article that confidently states “either this thing will happen or that thing will happen”, only for something completely different to actually occur. But that is the position I found myself in on Wednesday afternoon. On…

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82% of the Dutch think campaigning on consultations is fine. Their tobacco control movement finds that contemptuous.

TabakNee, the Dutch anti-tobacco watchdog, spent the first week of June calling Clearing the Air's EU consultation tool "manipulation," in the same paragraph as Philip Morris and British American Tobacco. Eight days later, a poll of 602 Dutch adults found 82% think…

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OPINION: The Kubin report, how Brussels works, and the right thing to do.

EurActiv reported yesterday that the French nationalist-right party, the Front National, might abstain from a vote in the European Parliament tomorrow on the EU tobacco tax revision. If they do, the report will probably fall, and there are conflicting reports about what…

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The war on drugs comes for nicotine: Brussels lobbyists, failed Australian prohibitionists and a tiny island lobby the UN to treat vapers like meth addicts

A tiny archipelago with a population of just 18,000, has asked the UN to put nicotine on the same list as crystal meth, ecstasy and the date-rape drug GHB in an audacious move co-ordinated by European tobacco control bigwigs. Palau - a…

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“This Is Criminal Neglect of Evidence” — Tobacco Control, Ideology & Harm Reduction Explained

Peter Beckett: Delon Human, welcome to Clearing the Air. Delon Human: It’s my privilege. Peter Beckett: Can we get a short introduction of who you are and how you came to be where you are now? Delon Human: Well, I am a…

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A Deal for Tobacco Control: Harm Reduction for Plain Packs

I was interviewed for the European Correspondent at last week’s Global Forum on Nicotine, which I assume will publish the usual “Big Tobacco Stooges” style hit piece on us at some point. The journalist (who asked me not to mention their name)…

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OPINION: the EU is consulting on nicotine bans. The paper trail matters.

*Since this was written the commission has launched a second public consultation. We will write more about that shortly. **This article, minus the swearing, has been submitted to the EU’s call for evidence on behalf of Clearing the Air. Go ahead…

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EXCLUSIVE: Swedish Tourist Tax: snus and pouches to be taxable in countries where they’re banned

Countries that have banned snus and nicotine pouches will be able to tax them when they’re brought into the country by consumers under a new proposal to be debated by the European Council today. Member States would be allowed to charge excise…

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