My sources in Brussels tell me that the European Commission’s report on how well its tobacco laws are doing should drop early spring. Maybe even as soon as March. This will be the starting gun in a race to overhaul the bloc’s…
The European Commission appears to have found a new tactic when it comes to responding to the views of people who respond to their consultations with opinions they don’t like: call them fake and ignore them.
Politico reported this morning that David…
A quarter of vapers in France say they would return to smoking if proposed restrictions under Article 23 of the draft 2026 finance bill are enacted, a new survey shows.
A new survey by OpinionWay for FIVAPE reveals that weakening access to…
A 2022 paper reporting higher odds and earlier onset of stroke among people who use vapes has been formally retracted.
The journal said an investigation identified major data-analysis errors and that the authors could not adequately resolve them; the authors did not…
Two weeks of vaping instead of smoking did not make any heart or lung test results worse in people with COPD.
Diastolic blood pressure (the “bottom number”) was lower after the vaping phase than after the smoking phase.
In people who really…
An academic article used by EU Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi to justify his assertion that safer nicotine products are as dangerous as smoking has been taken apart by a leading tobacco and nicotine expert.
“In my view this is not a scientific review,…
Two recent stories - Dutch teens “flooding” hospitals after vaping and Belgian kids supposedly being “hooked” on hidden opioids in vapes - sound terrifying.
They also risk seriously misleading the public about what’s really going on with youth nicotine and drugs. Let’s…
The Global Alliance for Tobacco Control (GATC) - which coordinates anti-nicotine NGOs at the WHO’s Conference of the Parties on tobacco control - has written to all COP delegates falsely claiming that “the evidence on the use of e-cigarettes as cessation aid…
New Zealand - which has some of the world’s lowest smoking rates and highest cigarette taxes - has been given the “dirty ashtray” award by the Global Alliance on Tobacco Control (GATC) in a move that brings into stark focus just how…