Harm Reduction - Clearing the Air

Voices of Harm Reduction Pt 9: Derek Yach

As we count down to the WHO’s bi-annual summit on tobacco control - which is increasingly used to spread misinformation about harm reduction, we sat down with former WHO Director for Non-Communicable Diseases Derek Yach. Derek’s had a long and fascinating career…

India’s policy think tank calls for vape ban change as illicit youth use surges

India’s top policy think tank calls for a vape ban review amid growing evidence of illicit use among young people.

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Misleading by design: experts slam Daily Mail for exaggerating youth vaping harms

Leading tobacco control say a Daily Mail article claiming that vapes have a “devastating health impact” on young people is “misleading by design”.

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Voices of Harm Reduction Pt 8: Arielle Selya

Arielle Selya is a former academic turned consultant. She set out to prove that the “gateway hypothesis” - that vaping leads to smoking in young people - was real, but ended up disproving it. When many of her peers refused to listen…

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WHO faces severe budget cuts. Will that mean less disinformation around safer nicotine?

Officials at the World Health Organisation - whose anti-vaping messaging border on disinformation to the point where they are routinely called out on Twitter/X - are staring down the barrel of 25% staff cuts in the wake of Donald Trump’s decision to…

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Free vape kits boost quit rate among smokers, report finds

A UK scheme to hand out free vapes to smokers has boosted the number who successfully quit, a new report has found. The rate of people giving up smoking has risen from 64 per cent to 75 per cent after the kits…

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Australia’s dangerous vape blackmarket is a warning to Europe, experts say

Australia’s out-of-control vape blackmarket is a warning European countries must heed, harm reduction experts have said. Since October, vapes can only legally be bought in Australia from a chemist following a consultation with a pharmacist. Disposable and flavoured vapes (except mint, menthol…

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Decoding the Hearing of Olivér Várhelyi

This guest post from Robert Casinge, Editor-in-Chief of pouchforum.eu, was originally published here Like everyone working with policy in Brussels, Pouchforum has followed the hearings of the designated commissioners closely. When dealing with a specific issue like nicotine pouches, one must stay…

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Spain risks undoing smoking success with vape ban, report warns

Spain is set to undo its recent drop in smoking rates by heavily restricting safer alternatives, a new report has warned. Last year, Ministry of Health statistics revealed an impressive 22 per cent decline in Spain’s daily smoking rates, which dropped from…

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