Sweden’s health minister has attacked France’s ban on nicotine pouches as “idiotic”, escalating a row over Europe’s treatment of smoke-free nicotine products.
Elisabeth Lann, Sweden’s minister of health, criticised the French ban during an interview on the Swedish health and lifestyle podcast…
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…
In this episode Peter Beckett sits down with Dr Christopher Snowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics at the Institute for Economic Affairs, to discuss whether or not nicotine is part of the culture war, or is it something that unites more than it…
From prison sentences to outright constitutional bans, governments around the world are taking an increasingly hard line on vaping.
While some countries regulate vapes as lower-risk alternatives to smoking, others have opted for outright prohibition - with penalties ranging from steep fines…
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…
Smokers who quit smoking with the help of vapes were less likely to relapse than those who quit using nicotine replacement therapy.
Continued use of vapes after quitting was linked to lower relapse rates up to one year.
The study analysed data…
Singapore has escalated its war on vapes, rolling out harsher penalties, expanding enforcement powers and urging the public to report suspected users via a national hotline, as authorities seek to crush a black market increasingly linked to illicit drugs.
The crackdown follows…
The share of UK adults who smoke has fallen to 10.6 per cent, the lowest since records began in 2011.
Among 18 to 24-year-olds, smoking has dropped dramatically from 25.7 per cent in 2011 to 8.1 per cent in 2024.
Vaping use…
Leading tobacco control say a Daily Mail article claiming that vapes have a “devastating health impact” on young people is “misleading by design”.
