International health policy experts called for less stringent regulations on novel nicotine products—like heated tobacco, oral nicotine and vape products—arguing they pose significantly lower risks than conventional cigarettes and could […]Read More
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The Institute for Tobacco Studies (ITS) in Täby, Sweden has released a topical paper urging the World Health Organization (WHO) to look at the successful Swedish experiences of large-scale transition […]Read More
Quit For Good, a non-profit organization promoting harm reduction in the Philippines, welcomed the United States’ intensified campaign on preventing the youth from consuming nicotine products, but said it should […]Read More
Strategies that provide smokers with less harmful alternatives to cigarettes are far more likely to reduce smoking than the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) recommendations to […]Read More
There is no evidence that the use of e-cigarettes and other alternative nicotine delivery products serves as a gateway into smoking, according to an international study. The study led by […]Read More
Tobacco harm reduction advocates in the Asia-Pacific region lauded UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for taking a pro-science approach to end the smoking epidemic by providing 1 million adult smokers […]Read More
International policy and public health experts expressed alarm over World Health Organization’s (WHO) controversial policy-making decisions that ignore science. Dr. Rafael Castillo, a renowned Filipino cardiologist said an article published […]Read More
The chief executive officer of Philip Morris International Inc. has asked governments around the world to make cigarettes obsolete by replacing them with less harmful smoke-free alternatives. PMI CEO Jacek […]Read More
The population of smokers globally increased to about 1.3 billion today despite the strict implementation by the World Health Organization (WHO) of a tobacco control accord that prevents them from […]Read More
Two international public health experts view an existing accord on tobacco control as a flawed framework for a global pandemic treaty, as they underscored the need for a more flexible […]Read More