One of France’s largest online vape retailers has introduced compulsory selfie-based age checks for new customers, as the industry seeks to show internet sales can be kept out of minors’ hands without a blanket ban.
Le Petit Vapoteur has required every new…
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…
A new study suggesting vapes may weaken the lung cancer benefits of quitting smoking was challenged during peer review over serious methodological concerns.
The study, published in Nature Medicine on June 8, analysed health data from more than 4.5 million adults in…
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…
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…
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)…
A 2023 paper linking vape use with lung disease in the US has been retracted by the Journal of Investigative Medicine.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…
*Since this was written the commission has launched a second public consultation. We will write more about that shortly. **This article, minus the swearing, has been submitted to the EU’s call for evidence on behalf of Clearing the Air. Go ahead…
Countries that have banned snus and nicotine pouches will be able to tax them when they’re brought into the country by consumers under a new proposal to be debated by the European Council today.
Member States would be allowed to charge excise…
