Harm reduction advocates are questioning the World Health Organization’s decision to hold a costly tobacco control summit in 2025, suggesting the event could divert resources from more pressing global health […]Read More
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Public health experts accused anti-vaping groups of resorting to tactics more akin to a cultural war than sound science, discouraging smokers from switching to potentially less harmful alternatives. Dr. Marewa […]Read More
A landmark study suggests Sweden’s dramatic reduction in smoking rates and related deaths stems from a national shift toward smokeless tobacco products. “Nicotine is addictive, but it isn’t the cause […]Read More
PANAMA CITY–Medical practitioners should learn scientific facts about nicotine and tobacco harm reduction (THR) so they can share proper information with people struggling with smoking, according to public health experts. […]Read More
Other Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand should emulate the Philippines in helping smokers by providing them access to less harmful alternatives to cigarettes that would reduce their exposure to […]Read More
A regional civil society group asked the World Health Organization’s (WHO) international treaty on tobacco control which will convene its member states in November 2023 to protect, instead of alienating […]Read More
The top executive of the leading heated tobacco company in the Philippines said Wednesday the passage of the landmark Vape Law in 2022 in a win for public health as […]Read More
The UK Royal College of Physicians’ public health charity group dismissed as myths the assumption that vaping is a gateway to smoking and that vapes are more harmful than cigarettes. […]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
The World Health Organization’s contempt of tobacco harm reduction (THR) jeopardizes the chance of more than a billion smokers globally to switch to less harmful alternatives like heated tobacco and […]Read More