Current vape use among US middle and high school students fell from about 20 per cent in 2019 to 5.2 per cent in 2025, a decline of roughly 74 per cent.
Cigarette smoking stood at 1.4 per cent, while 7.2 per cent…
Shopify has ordered merchants worldwide to remove all vape products from their online stores, extending a US crackdown on illegal vapes into a blanket global ban.
The Canadian e-commerce company told sellers to remove the products by July 8 or risk having…
Former WHO director Professor Tikki Pang says the organisation has developed a dangerous blind spot on tobacco harm reduction.
In this interview, he explains why evidence is being ignored and what it would take to force reform.
Peter Beckett: Tikki Pang, thank…
Two former WHO directors say the UK must keep its focus on smoking as new tobacco and vape laws take effect.
The Lancet comment welcomes the Act’s distinction between combustible tobacco and lower-risk nicotine products.
The authors warn that overly restrictive vape…
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…
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…
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)…
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…