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Top EU health official contradicts Commissioner on vaping and pouch risks

Cracks have appeared in the EU’s approach to nicotine science as the EU Commission’s top public health official, Sandra Gallina, publicly contradicted her boss and Health Commissioner Oliver Varheyli on the relative risks of nicotine products. Gallina, whose official title is “Director…

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Vape shops are “antisocial”, says UK PM. Illegal vapes aren’t.

It used to be that the proliferation of charity shops was considered the canary in the coal mine for the UK High Street. These days, that honour goes to the humble vape shop. Though unlike Oxfam and the British Heart Foundation, they're…

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An open letter to two MEPs on the importance of organised participation

This letter was sent to two Members of the European Parliament who asked the EU Commission how it planned to handle consumer mobilisation campaigns on harm reduction. The question cited out “Fix the Flaws” campaign directly. Hello, It's been brought to…

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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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