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Cancer review puts tobacco smoke at the heart of smoking’s cancer risk

The review identifies tobacco smoke’s toxic chemicals as central to smoking-related cancer. It states that nicotine itself is not carcinogenic. Nicotine remains addictive and can affect cancer-related biological processes. The authors call for smoking cessation treatment within cancer care. A cancer review…

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Nearly half of vapers would consider black-market products as October tax approaches, new survey finds

Nearly half of vapers surveyed would consider buying cheaper black-market products, as the UK prepares to introduce a tax on vaping liquids next month. The OnePoll survey, commissioned by vape retailer Vapekit, found 48 per cent of the full sample would consider…

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Vapes make smokers 61 per cent more likely to quit than patches or gum, major Cochrane review finds

Smokers using nicotine vapes were 61 per cent more likely to quit for at least six months than those using patches, gum or other nicotine replacement therapy. Around eight to 10 people in every 100 quit with nicotine vapes, compared with six…

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Doctor, economist and ex-Border Force chief tell Albanese to adopt the Coalition’s tobacco policy

Three Australian experts wrote to the Prime Minister on Thursday urging him to implement his opponent's tobacco policy. The signatories are Dr Nick Coatsworth, deputy chief medical officer through the pandemic; Richard Holden, Vice-Chancellor's Professor of economics at UNSW; and Rohan Pike,…

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UK nicotine pouch sales set to surge 51 per cent to £579m

UK nicotine pouch sales are forecast to climb by almost 51 per cent this year. The market was worth an estimated £384 million in 2025 and is expected to exceed £579 million by the end of 2026, according to Euromonitor figures. That…

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Australian Senate committee calls for wider legal vape sales and tobacco tax freeze

An Australian Senate committee has called for wider legal sales of regulated nicotine vapes and an immediate freeze on tobacco tax rises, warning that the country’s current approach is “facing a breaking point”. The Liberal-led majority report from the Senate Legal and…

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Tobacco Control Advocates: Big Tobacco’s Useful Idiots

Source Madonna has spent her entire career tracking what the young are into. The objective of any corporation is first to survive, then to thrive. A decade ago, tobacco companies had to shift into non-combustibles to survive as nicotine alternative products were…

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US court overturns FDA vape denials over unlawful rule

A US appeals court has overturned FDA decisions blocking more than 1.2 million flavoured vaping products, ruling that the regulator unlawfully imposed a standard amounting to a “de facto ban”.

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Op-Ed: Harry Shapiro – Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction

This op-ed is by Harry Shapiro, author and tobacco harm reduction expert at the Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction (GSTHR). As the new Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction report shows, THR inexorably marches on, but the spectre of denial is…

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