While the Philippines’ landmark “Vape Law” supported tobacco harm reduction as one of the pillars for tobacco control approaches identified in the World Health Organization global treaty, the WHO remains […]Read More
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Several countries including the United Kingdom, Japan and Sweden have witnessed a significant decline in smoking rates after embracing innovative smoke-free products like vapes, heated tobacco and snus, according to […]Read More
Strategies that provide smokers with less harmful alternatives to cigarettes are far more likely to reduce smoking than the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) recommendations 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
A substantial transition of smokers from traditional cigarettes to reduced risk products (RRPs) such as vapes and heated tobacco will help ease the burden on the public health system, according […]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
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
The arrest of a famous Taiwanese actress and her friends in Bangkok and the hefty fine they had to pay to go home have caused uproar in the online community […]Read More
Latest scientific report affirmed earlier findings that vaping poses significantly lower risks compared to smoking. Dr. Debbie Robson of Queens College London told participants of The E-Cigarette Summit on December […]Read More
Two of the world’s leading oncologists said it’s not nicotine, but the burning of cigarettes, which generates smoke that contains toxic chemicals and carcinogens. Dr. Peter Harper, a consultant medical […]Read More