New Zealand’s rapid decline in smoking rates - driven by a rapid switch to vaping - is helping to narrow some of the country’s starkest health inequalities, according to a public health expert.
“A Pākehā [New Zealander of European descent] boy born…
Australia’s crackdown on vaping is failing, with new official figures showing only a trickle of legal sales through pharmacies while the black market thrives.
Since October, ‘therapeutic vapes’ - legal, regulated products with limited flavours - have only been available to buy…
Most under-18s who vape are sourcing vapes through the black market, new polling suggests - a warning sign that restrictions and bans are failing to keep products out of young people’s hands.
A survey of 2,000 adults and 500 youths aged 15…
Health experts say Brussels is putting Sweden’s smoke-free success at risk, warning that a huge EU tax hike on nicotine pouches could dismantle the world’s leading harm reduction model.
Smoke Free Sweden, a global public health initiative, submitted its response to the…
Five staff members working at the World Health Organisation’s tobacco control department earn more than the UK Prime Minister and the French President, new figures released by the WHO show; with the highest paid staff member (presumably Head of the Secretariat Adriana…
Gibraltar is considering a law that would stop anyone born after 2009 from ever buying tobacco. The same draft bill also targets vaping, with a proposed blanket ban on disposable vapes.
The draft bill, spearheaded by Minister for Health, Care and Business…
UK retailers are being asked daily for banned disposable vapes, and in many places they’re still being sold illegally, according to new findings.
A Scottish Grocers’ Federation (SGF) survey of its members reveals that almost a third (31 per cent) of retailers…
Smokeless nicotine products - not abstinence - are driving Sweden’s dramatic drop in smoking, according to a leading clinical psychologist.
“Smokeless nicotine is at the heart of Sweden’s smoking decline,” said Karl Fagerström, a prominent researcher who spent his career developing smoking…
France has once again delayed its ban on nicotine pouches, pushing enforcement to August 25 after seven European Union (EU) countries filed formal objections.
Originally scheduled to take effect on May 26, the proposed ban would outlaw the production, sale, import, export,…
