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“This Is Criminal Neglect of Evidence” — Tobacco Control, Ideology & Harm Reduction Explained
Peter Beckett: Delon Human, welcome to Clearing the Air. Delon Human: It’s my privilege. Peter Beckett: Can we get a short introduction of who you are and how you came to be where you are now? Delon Human: Well, I am a…
A Deal for Tobacco Control: Harm Reduction for Plain Packs
I was interviewed for the European Correspondent at last week’s Global Forum on Nicotine, which I assume will publish the usual “Big Tobacco Stooges” style hit piece on us at some point. The journalist (who asked me not to mention their name)…
Smokers three times more likely to quit with nicotine vapes, trial finds
Smokers given a 5% nicotine vape were more than three times as likely to quit cigarettes after six weeks as those given a nicotine-free vape. The trial found 36.5% of people in the nicotine vape group stopped smoking, compared with 11.5 per…
FDA’s first fruit-flavoured vape approval exposes the flaw in America’s anti-flavour policy
The FDA’s first authorisation of fruit-flavoured vapes should be a turning point in America’s long-running battle over nicotine policy. Instead, it has exposed just how confused that policy has become. The US Food and Drug Administration has authorised four vaping products from…
Vape metals scare: what the latest study doesn’t tell you
A new vape study is fuelling fresh fears about toxic metals - but experts say the science behind the headlines is far less clear. Published in Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, the research explored whether metals from vape aerosol can build up in…
Voices of Harm Reduction Pt 5: Rebecca Taylor
Rebecca Taylor was a Member of the European Parliament for the UK Liberal Democrats in 2013, when the EU agreed its current rules on vaping.
Spain’s proposed flavour ban: what happens next?
With the consultation on a flavour ban in Spain now closed, activists might be forgiven for thinking that there’s little more they can do to change things. That’s not true.
The EU’s Bloomberg Report Part 2
Conflicts of interest, a pervasive bias and corruption at the heart of the European Commission’s tobacco and nicotine policy guidance document In Part 1, we looked at how the European Commission tender for a Single Framework Contract for Support Actions in the Field…
The EU’s Bloomberg Report Part 1
The corruption behind the group providing policy guidance against tobacco harm reduction Brussels has today received a report evaluating whether the EU needs to update its rules on tobacco and nicotine. Far from a dispassionate review of the evidence, what we have…
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