At a European Parliament hearing last week, the Smoke-Free Partnership (SFP) told MEPs that 29 per cent of Swedish 17-year-old students currently use oral nicotine products.
The figure was used to challenge Sweden’s harm-reduction strategy - the same strategy that has helped…
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…
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EU Member States have today agreed not to push for bans on safer nicotine products at the WHO’s bi-annual tobacco control summit, COP 11, after a large group of countries refused to accept the Commission’s…
France’s planned ban on nicotine pouches from next spring could be in jeopardy after a series of amendments were tabled in the National Assembly aimed at softening or replacing the measure.
The prohibition, due to take effect in March 2026, is part…
Nicotine vapes help more people quit smoking than nicotine replacement therapies such as patches or gum
People using nicotine vapes are also more likely to quit than those using non-nicotine vapes or no support at all
Rates of side effects and serious…
UPDATE - 3rd November 2025 - we've now seen the version of the paper that will be discussed by EU Ambassadors on Wednesday. Possible bans on safer nicotine products are still part of the text.
When EU negotiations go late into the…
A new paper claims vape liquids can release harmful chemicals when overheated.
Experts say the tests used in the study don’t match how people actually vape.
Human studies show no measurable breathing or eye problems after short-term exposure to high levels of…
President Donald Trump’s pledge to “save vaping” is drawing criticism from vapers and harm-reduction advocates, who say his administration has instead overseen a crackdown on the very products he promised to protect.
In September 2024, Trump wrote on his platform Truth Social…
New Zealand’s rapid decline in smoking rates - driven by a rapid switch to vaping - is helping to narrow some of the country’s starkest health inequalities, according to a public health expert.
“A Pākehā [New Zealander of European descent] boy born…
