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Taxes & Organized Crime: The Hidden Cost of EU Nicotine Policy
When it comes to taxing reduced-harm products, is the EU prioritizing public health, or just ignoring its own rules?
We recently sat down with former EU tax official Donato Raponi, at the inaugural World Nicotine Congress, to unpack the complex and often…
Inside the Lab with Chris Allen: What Is Actually in Your Vape?
What exactly is inside the vapes and nicotine pouches millions of adults use every day? In our latest episode of Clearing the Air, toxicologist Chris Allen takes us inside the lab to reveal the complex science of harm reduction and the shocking…
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Smoke-free by 2040 within reach – but only with wider access to safer nicotine alternatives
A global smoking rate below 5% by 2040 is described as “a realistic, measurable and equitable target”
Current tobacco control measures alone are unlikely to reduce smoking fast enough
Wider access to “regulated smoke-free nicotine alternatives” could accelerate declines significantly
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Nicotine vapes linked to higher quit rates and lower cigarette use, major new review finds
Nicotine vapes were associated with significantly higher quit rates than no vaping at multiple time points
People using vapes also smoked fewer cigarettes per day, with consistent reductions across studies
Evidence from randomised controlled trials was rated “high” for both quitting and…
Dutch flavour ban pushed some vapers into smoking, study suggests
40% of vapers reduced use after the ban, including 22% who quit entirely
6% started smoking cigarettes and linked this to the policy
10.8% reported using alternative products more, “predominantly cigarettes”
Most quitters (73%) did not switch to another product
A major…
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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.
A potted history of FCTC
The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is an international treaty made in response to the global “tobacco epidemic.”
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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…