A new expert analysis has challenged claims that vaping has slowed progress in cutting youth smoking rates in Australia and New Zealand.
Recent academic papers from the University of Sydney’s Professor Becky Freeman and her team argue that the rise of vaping…
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…
New evidence shows that four countries are proving safer nicotine alternatives can cut smoking rates, prevent disease and save lives.
The findings come from The Safer Nicotine Revolution: Global Lessons, Healthier Futures, a new report that tracks how products such as nicotine…
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…
