Consumers to tackle tobacco harm reduction amid pandemic in V4V webinar
Consumers and advocates of safer nicotine products in the Asia-Pacific region will tackle the need for effective public health policy...
Vaping
Asian Consumers Hail UK Report Showing Vaping is Better than NRT
Asia-Pacific consumers and users of safer nicotine products welcomed the latest report by Public Health England showing that vaping or...
AVCA disappointed with lack of smokefree progress
New Zealand’s leading vaping consumer group is deeply disappointed there remains no action plan to achieve the ambitious national goal...
E-cigarette use is strongly associated with smoking cessation in the European Union
By Dr Konstantinos Farsalinos A study published recently in the journal Tobacco Control examined the association between e-cigarette use and...
Things that make you go hmm…
The World Health Organisation has been under a lot of pressure recently; first with the issuance and eventual revision of...
India’s e-cigarette ordinance regressive, will harm millions of smokers, consumer body says
DELHI: One of India's leading consumer advocacy groups has slammed the government following the passing of ordinance prohibiting the manufacture...
Still blowing smoke in Asia: the region’s failure to embrace tobacco harm reduction efforts continue
Over half a billion smokers live in Asia, and Asian countries have some of the highest per capita smoking rates...
Pace of US smoking rate decline mirrors rapid rise in popularity of vaping
Little evidence that e-cigs are prompting young people to start smoking: researchers The pace of the fall in smoking prevalence...
Specialists appeal to WHO for FCTC charter to embrace tobacco harm reduction
GENEVA: Seventy-two specialists in nicotine science, policy and practice have written to WHO and its stakeholders asking that they "adopt a...
HK e-cigarette ban contrary to international trend
Prohibition policy counterproductive to harm reduction The Chief Executive Mrs Carrie Lam Wednesday announced the Government decision to prohibit the...
