LONDON: The FCTC’s COP8 summit in Geneva presents a great opportunity for UK delegates to promote the UK’s dramatic success with e-cigarettes. The New Nicotine Alliance (NNA) is calling on UK delegates to communicate to global public health representatives the clear and unequivocal message that e-cigarettes and other alternative nicotine
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The Food & Drug Administration announced recently an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) for flavors used in tobacco products, including e-cigarettes. The FDA then allowed public comments where commentaries, opinions, proposals and data could be submitted. Dr Konstantinos Farsalinos, a research fellow at the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center in Athens, is
Read MoreExperts support safer alternatives to smoking at Global Forum on Nicotine held in Warsaw June 16-19, 2017. Terry Barnes - Australian health policy expert Clive Bates - ex ASH. UK-AU David Sweanor - Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada. Video 1 David Sweanor - Adjunct Professor, Faculty
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The contradiction inherent in Australia’s decision to prop up smoking at the expense of new nicotine products was aired on national TV when 60 Minutes looked at the argument between local and international regulation. [for the vaping segment, click here] The Therapeutic Goods Administration recently decided against allowing the use
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Donald Trump may seem like an improbable ally of harm reduction, but his US administration has done vapers a favour by delaying impending enforcement of a rule finalised last year that imposed strict supervision over e-cigarettes. The government has pressed ‘pause’ on the “deeming rule”, so called after a US
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Fresh from its significant intervention in the case of Brexit v Common Sense, the UK’s legal system provided a massive boost to consumer choice 26 Jan. The High Court in the UK announced that it will allow the existing ban on the smoking substitute Snus to be referred to the
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Regional delegates were treated to an often-lively debate in which compelling scientific evidence and pressing regulatory imperatives were presented by internationally-recognized expert speakers at the factasia.org Regional E-cigarette Symposium, held in Hong Kong last December 12, 2015. Factasia’s John Boley and Heneage Mitchell chaired a distinguished panel of speakers including
Read Morefactasia.org has commissioned independent opinion surveys of smokers in important Asia-Pacific markets from leading polling company IPSOS. Here are the full results from the Australia Download the PDF file .
Read MoreThe latest position regarding consumer rights, taxation and usage of nicotine and tobacco products in Australia Percentage adult smokers According to the Australian Department of Health 13.3% of adults18 years or older smoked every day in 2013. WHO statistics suggest the figure for “current smokers” was 18% in 2012. The
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The less harmful alternative – legal in London but a criminal offence in Hong Kong In Asia as in the rest of the world, there is a deep division of opinion about e-cigarettes. In many countries they are banned but widely available; bans are almost certainly there to protect governments
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