A leading Tobacco Harm Reduction advocacy has urged global tobacco control policymakers to abandon outdated prohibitionist approaches and embrace harm reduction strategies grounded in science. Ahead of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control’s (FCTC) COP11 meeting later this year, the Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) emphasized
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A leading tobacco harm reduction advocacy is urging the Philippine government to include consumer perspectives in its preparations for the upcoming World Health Organisation’s 11th Conference of the Parties (COP11) of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). In a follow-up letter to the Department of Health, the Coalition of
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Join Heneage Mitchell at AVI's #Funvocacy 19 "The Need for THR in LMICs" where he discusses the banning of safer nicotine products in developing countries & the tragic results of unsafe decision-making.
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It’s that time of year again, when the scramble for easy money reaches a fever pitch for a select group of secretive, utterly compromised Tobacco Control ‘Experts’. Over one billion dollars has already found its way into the deep pockets of a handful of tainted bureaucrats, corrupt scientists, blind-sided academics
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The World Health Organisation has been under a lot of pressure recently; first with the issuance and eventual revision of its Q&A Detail on E-Cigarettes and then with the Coronavirus outbreak in China that is spreading globally. For the purposes of this blog, we are going to focus on the
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MAKATI CITY – Appropriate regulation of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes or “vapes”) can help prevent serious sickness in and the premature death of millions of cigarette smokers in the Philippines, according to a leading expert on tobacco harm reduction and e-cigarettes. Dr. Farsalinos urged the Philippine government to create a regulatory
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Smokers in Philippines are calling for action to make e-cigarettes more widely available and regulated properly. In a first-of-its-kind survey of adult smokers in Philippines, regional consumer advocacy group factasia.org has found that most smokers (70 percent) see e-cigarettes as a “positive alternative” to tobacco products. The same number –
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In the latest in its series of opinion polls of adult smokers across Asia, factasia.org has found that adult smokers in Malaysia are overwhelmingly calling for e-cigarettes to be regulated properly and more widely available. Most smokers (83 percent) see e-cigarettes as a “positive alternative” to tobacco products. Even more
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In the second of its opinion polls of adult smokers across Asia, factasia.org has found that adult smokers in Singapore have strong opinions regarding the regulation of e-cigarettes. An overwhelming majority (79 percent) believes it would be wrong for the Government to prevent or delay the introduction of safer alternatives
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