International health experts are calling on governments to embrace safer nicotine alternatives as proven tools to cut smoking, prevent disease and save lives.
The appeal comes in The Safer Nicotine Revolution: Global Lessons, Healthier Futures, a landmark new report published ahead of…
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…
Australia’s crackdown on vaping is failing, with new official figures showing only a trickle of legal sales through pharmacies while the black market thrives.
Since October, ‘therapeutic vapes’ - legal, regulated products with limited flavours - have only been available to buy…
New Zealand is on the cusp of becoming one of the first countries to go officially smoke-free - and it’s thanks to vaping and other safer nicotine alternatives, according to its Associate Minister of Health.
In a passionate parliamentary speech, Casey Costello…
The World Health Organisation is urging its members to classify “harm reduction” as a tobacco industry narrative, despite the concept being classified as a tobacco control strategy in its own treaty.
A draft agenda for the Conference of the Parties to the…
Australia’s pharmacy-only vape laws are pushing consumers into the arms of organised crime, critics have warned.
Under landmark federal reforms introduced in October, nicotine vapes can only be legally sold in the country through pharmacies.
The policy was designed primarily to curb…
A leading global health expert is urging governments to rethink their approach to safer nicotine products, warning that outdated policies and misconceptions about flavours are costing millions of lives.
Dr. Konstantinos Farsalinos, a cardiologist and tobacco harm reduction researcher from Greece, says…
A junior minister in the Netherlands has compared vaping to heroin and crack cocaine use in a presentation to other politicians.
State Secretary Vincent Karremans told the Dutch House of Representatives that he wants to prevent people from starting to vape and…
Bulgaria’s proposed regulations on vapes and other nicotine alternatives are a “significant backward step” in Europe’s fight against smoking, a global health body has warned.
Smoke-Free Sweden says that if made law, the “short-sighted measures” will deprive adult smokers of crucial tools…
