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…
A scientific review examining vaping and cancer risk has been formally retracted by its journal.
Editors said “substantial concerns were raised regarding the methodological integrity, accuracy, and scientific validity of the review.”
The investigation identified “multiple serious flaws that materially affect the…
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,…