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Livestream to scrutinize WHO tobacco conference

admin_fa_6025 8th November 20219th November 2021

Global advocates for safer nicotine products are broadcasting around-the-clock this week during a secretive international tobacco control conference. Dubbed sCOPe, the YouTube simulcast will focus on COP9, the 9th Conference of Parties for the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). Despite being shut out of COP9, vapers have

Tobacco harm reduction key as Asia home to over half smoking-related deaths – report

admin_fa_6025 19th April 202119th January 2023

Consumer advocates and tobacco harm reduction (THR) experts called on the World Health Organization (WHO) and governments in Asia and the Far East (A&FE) to allow smokers to choose safer alternatives, following the latest report that more than half of global smoking-related deaths occur in the region. They made the

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22 Nov

Malaysian state punishes adult vapers for all the wrong reasons. Meanwhile, cigarettes remain untouched ....

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21 Nov

Asia's smoking rates climb as policymakers distance themselves from tobacco harm reduction efforts
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18 Nov

“Vapes have achieved what decades of government initiatives struggled to do – getting us to give up the cigs” says Observer Columnist, @Martha_Gill, in a critique of moral panic over #vaping.

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13 Nov

Swedes claim world-first "smoke-free" status through a "pragmatic focus on harm reduction rather than prohibition." Australia, are you listening?

#tobaccoharmreduction #harmreduction #smokefree

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11 hours ago

Indonesia, with a huge and relatively young population smoking at high rates, faces a public health time bomb.

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Will Indonesia, a Key Tobacco Control Outlier, Keep Vaping Legal?

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If Indonesia was already frowned upon by the World Health Organization (WHO) and tobacco control groups for its high and ...

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2 days ago

The public health benefits of an active harm reduction approach to the problem of tobacco smoking are becoming clearer all the time

#vaping #ecigarettes #tobaccoharmreduction #harmreduction

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OPINION | Harm reduction: the most effective tool for countries to go smoke-free

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The public health benefits of an active harm reduction approach to the problem of tobacco smoking are becoming clearer all the time.

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2 days ago

Nations like India, Thailand, and Malaysia have banned SNPs outright, citing youth concerns and health risks, while continuing to permit cigarette sales. This prohibitionist (and dare we say – hypocritical) approach limits access only to less harmful alternatives, undermining public health progress.

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Asia Moves Further Towards Nicotine Prohibition (Hence Away From Decreasing Smoking Rates)

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Generally, Asia appears to favour tobacco prohibition over harm reduction, with many countries in the region maintaining strict bans or heavily restrictive regulations on safer nicotine products (SNPs...

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1 week ago

Swedes claim world-first "smoke-free" status through a "pragmatic focus on harm reduction rather than prohibition." Australia, are you listening?

#tobaccoharmreduction #harmreduction #smokefreelife
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BREAKING NEWS: Swedes First in World to Become Smoke Free – It’s a Lesson for the World Says Smoke Free Sweden

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SENSATIONAL government figures released today show that Swedes have made history by becoming officially ‘smoke free’. Swedes have hit this remarkable

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1 week ago

" ... the rates of symptom resolution were 14% lower (for cough) and 15% lower (for wheeze) among those who switched to dual use and maintained or increased their smoking intensity; those who started using electronic cigarettes while continuing to smoke the same number of regular cigarettes saw their wheeze and coughing get worse."

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Switching from smoking to vaping improves respiratory health

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A new paper in Nicotine and Tobacco Research, published by Oxford University Press, finds that people who switch from smoking cigarettes to vaping see improved respiratory health, but people who begin...