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Latest News & Information
  • HR coalition urges WHO FCTC to include SNP consumers at COP10
  • White paper slams youth vaping disinformation
  • 3 year ban – 4 million deaths
  • Tobacco harm reduction experts release White Paper on WHO ‘guidance’
  • Int’l experts ready for Asia Harm Reduction Forum
  • Insight & Opinion || Philanthropic Terrorism

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HR coalition urges WHO FCTC to include SNP consumers at COP10

admin_fa_6025 21st March 202321st March 2023
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The member organisations of CAPHRA have written to their respective country FCTC delegations attending COP10 asking that each includes at least one consumer of safer nicotine products. COP10 will be held in Panama in November. It is hosted by the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). CAPHRA

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White paper slams youth vaping disinformation

admin_fa_6025 23rd December 202223rd December 2022
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“This white paper completely discredits and disproves persistent claims that there is a youth vaping epidemic, and that vaping is a ‘gateway’ to smoking,” says Nancy Loucas, CAPHRA’s executive coordinator. Her comments follow several leading international Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) experts compiling and publishing ‘The Subversion of Public Health: Consumer

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Tobacco harm reduction experts release White Paper on WHO ‘guidance’

admin_fa_6025 3rd November 20223rd November 2022
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Titled ‘The Subversion of Public Health: Consumer Perspectives’, a white paper presented at the recent Fifth Asia Harm Reduction Forum (AHRF 2022) has now been publicly released. Compiled by several leading international Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) experts, it was presented at the 28 October forum in the Philippines by Nancy

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Int’l experts ready for Asia Harm Reduction Forum

admin_fa_6025 27th October 202227th October 2022
AHRF 2022

Leading Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) experts from around the world will present at The Fifth Asia Harm Reduction Forum (AHRF 2022) on Friday, 28 October in the Philippines. “Asia-Pacific is home to many of the world’s smokers, but it’s also home to several countries positively confronting the tobacco epidemic by

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Insight & Opinion || Philanthropic Terrorism

admin_fa_6025 30th June 202230th June 2022
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Around a dozen or more years ago at a conference in South Korea a security expert outlined the existential threats involved with the illicit tobacco trade. Criminal and terrorist syndicates have long been engaged in low risk, highly profitable cigarette smuggling with little fear of serious consequences as the penalties

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Tobacco harm reduction key as Asia home to over half smoking-related deaths – report

admin_fa_6025 19th April 202119th January 2023
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Consumer advocates and tobacco harm reduction (THR) experts called on the World Health Organization (WHO) and governments in Asia and the Far East (A&FE) to allow smokers to choose safer alternatives, following the latest report that more than half of global smoking-related deaths occur in the region. They made the

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Consumers to tackle tobacco harm reduction amid pandemic in V4V webinar

admin_fa_6025 15th March 202116th March 2021
voices4vape webinar 2

Consumers and advocates of safer nicotine products in the Asia-Pacific region will tackle the need for effective public health policy to address the smoking epidemic using the same science and principle to contain Covid-19 in an online seminar to be held on 21 March 2021. The Coalition of Asia Pacific

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Things that make you go hmm…

admin_fa_6025 8th February 202026th August 2020
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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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Twitter

Researchers seem so eager to discredit vaping as a harm-reducing alternative to smoking that they overlook fundamental methodological flaws #vapingsaveslives #ecigarettes #vaping https://t.co/taC5fuxETr via @reason
h J R

- March 22, 2023

@ColinMendelsohn: Leading addiction expert Professor @DrNicoleLee explains that we need to make nicotine #vapes more easily available for adults who need them, to reduce the black market and youth access "Banning or restricting vaping could actually do more harm than good" https://t.co/JafIbtnMgW
h J R

- March 22, 2023

CALL TO ACTION: The World Health Organization is planning a global assault on vaping #cop10 @WHO @NNAlliance @thevapers_org @thevapersph https://t.co/H1OBe5TDb3
h J R

- March 20, 2023

Sweden nears 'smoke-free' status thanks to harm minimization & tobacco control #vaping #ecigarettes #HarmReduction https://t.co/nq1X2AloUa
h J R

- March 16, 2023

@ColinMendelsohn: Great to see a news story quoting a REAL expert in smoking + #vaping, Professor Ron Borland from Uni of Melbourne "vaping is considerably LESS harmful based on the toxicology" "Smoking is much more likely to be addictive" Well done @JMFenwick, via @VICE https://t.co/P70Ea3mTWQ
h J R

- March 15, 2023

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  • HR coalition urges WHO FCTC to include SNP consumers at COP10
  • White paper slams youth vaping disinformation
  • 3 year ban – 4 million deaths
  • Tobacco harm reduction experts release White Paper on WHO ‘guidance’
  • Int’l experts ready for Asia Harm Reduction Forum
  • Insight & Opinion || Philanthropic Terrorism

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