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Katie Price vapes on stage as Pride crowd weighs in on Lee Andrews drama

Katie Price put vaping in the spotlight during a lively Pride appearance in Canterbury, where she sang, joked with the crowd and asked fans whether she should stay with husband Lee Andrews after her return from Dubai. The former glamour model, 48,…

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Sweden blocks EU pouch tax hike to protect its smoke-free status

Sweden has blocked an EU tobacco tax plan that critics warned would punish the smoke-free products behind the country’s sharp fall in smoking. The move turns Sweden’s smoke-free success into a direct challenge to Brussels, coming just days after the European Parliament…

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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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Second Patel vape study retracted as lung disease paper is pulled over data concerns

A 2023 paper linking vape use with lung disease in the US has been retracted by the Journal of Investigative Medicine. The journal said concerns were raised about the accuracy of data derived from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, known…

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How Generation AIDS sees Harm Reduction

I was born in 1963 which technically makes me a Baby Boomer but I certainly wasn’t experiencing the scene at Woodstock. I have referred to those born in the early 60s under a generational subset known as “Generation AIDS”. I was coming…

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Vaping has prevented up to 100 billion cigarettes being smoked in Britain, new analysis suggests

Vaping may have prevented up to 100 billion cigarettes from being smoked in Britain since 2013, according to new analysis. Campaign group We Vape said the rapid rise of vaping as an alternative to smoking has coincided with one of the steepest…

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OPINION: Oliver Várhelyi and the Trumpification of EU Health Policy

The Health Commissioner’s World No Tobacco Day statement shows just how detached he is from reality. He should go. Another day, another ridiculous statement by Oliver Várhelyi, the European Commissioner for Health. VarHar has become the bumbling Donald Trump figure of this…

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Reach Out, Don’t Shun: What World No Tobacco Day Used to Mean

The first World No-Smoking Day fell on 7 April 1988, timed to the WHO’s 40th anniversary. South Africa wasn’t a WHO member then—apartheid had seen to that. Yet we marked the moment anyway, launching a special edition of the South African Medical…

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Smokers three times more likely to quit with nicotine vapes, trial finds

Smokers given a 5% nicotine vape were more than three times as likely to quit cigarettes after six weeks as those given a nicotine-free vape. The trial found 36.5% of people in the nicotine vape group stopped smoking, compared with 11.5 per…

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