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OPINION: the EU is consulting on nicotine bans. The paper trail matters.
*Since this was written the commission has launched a second public consultation. We will write more about that shortly. **This article, minus the swearing, has been submitted to the EU’s call for evidence on behalf of Clearing the Air. Go ahead…
The $4.2 Trillion Illegal Empire: How Illicit Tobacco Funds Terrorism | Hayley van Loon
In this insightful interview, Hayley van Loon, CEO of Crime Stoppers International, details the alarming convergence of organised crime and state actors across global illicit trades, particularly focusing on the illicit tobacco industry. She highlights how this $4.2 trillion "Illegal Empire" is…
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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…
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The European Union (EU) is a club of 27 countries from across Europe, whose governments all work together. The EU has the power to make laws that apply to all of its member states at once.
Summer refresher: Three ways safer nicotine products lead to less smoking
The reason safer nicotine products exist is to reduce the number of people who smoke, and by extension the death and disease associated with smoking.
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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…