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A 2023 paper linking vape use with lung disease in the US has been retracted by the Journal of Investigative Medicine.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…
The WHO is urging governments to consider strict regulation - and potentially bans - on nicotine pouches, warning they risk creating “a new generation” addicted to nicotine
The report argues nicotine pouches are being marketed with “youthful themes”, sweet flavours and “discreet”…
A major new review of US vaping research is raising uncomfortable questions about how some of the most influential studies on vaping and smoking cessation are designed - and whether they may be systematically overlooking people who successfully stop smoking by switching…
When it comes to taxing reduced-harm products, is the EU prioritizing public health, or just ignoring its own rules?
We recently sat down with former EU tax official Donato Raponi, at the inaugural World Nicotine Congress, to unpack the complex and often…
The EU is right to be ashamed of its evaluation report on nicotine policy. Even its own watchdogs have disowned it.
Two years ago, I wrote about the EU Commission burying its own smoking data, and opined on why they might have…
The Hungarian Commissioner and Orbán loyalist has been at the vanguard of spreading outright falsehoods about safer nicotine products. Now Orbán is gone, will he go too?
Many in Brussels were popping champagne last night as quasi-dictator Viktor Orbán was decisively ejected…