Weekly Issue | Apr 17th, 2023
"“Plans to reduce smoking rates below five percent in Australia are being hampered if tobacco harm-reduction products such as vapes are not made available to consumers, according to research published by the University of Oxford.”" INNCO on Twitter
Hi Dear Friends,
We hope you are doing amazingly well. It is more than evident that the most important news of last week was the United Kingdom government announcing that it will be providing 1 million free vaping devices for adults who are unable or unwilling to quit smoking in England and giving financial incentives for women who are pregnant to stop smoking; all of this measures to help the United Kingdom achieving its goal of becoming smoke-free by 2030. Once again, the United Kingdom consolidates as a global leader in Harm Reduction. Read more about it here.
The European Commission recently launched part 2 of its Evaluation of the Legislative Framework for Tobacco Control. It is a public consultation to collect stakeholders' perceptions on the current legislative framework for Tobacco Control, including the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) and Tobacco Advertising Directive (TAD). The consultation ends on 16 May. For more information on how to participate, please read ETHRA's article here.
If you haven't seen the paper published by Tomasz Jerzyński, Jessica Harding, and Gerry Stimson regarding consumer organisations that advocate for the adoption of and access to safer nicotine products, their history, legal status, membership, structure, objectives, working methods and activities, and funding., we strongly encourage you to do so. You can check it out here.
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Curated by the INNCO's Secretariat
Smokers urged to swap cigarettes for vapes in world first ...
Pregnant women will also be offered financial incentives to help them quit as part of a sweeping package of measures to cut smoking rates in England.
Tholos Foundation Releases "Vaping & Tobacco Harm Reductio...
To assist lawmakers across the globe in navigating issues related to tobacco, vaping, and other alternative nicotine products, the Tholos Foundatio...
NSP - Harry’s Blog 118: Thirteen ways of looking at a blac...
But public health communicators have a moral duty simply to present the evidence.The title of this blog is the title of a famous poem by the Americ...
Op-Ed: PBS documentary spews more falsehoods on fake youth...
A new documentary is premiering next week on Idaho Public Television that attempts to bring more attention to what “has become an epidemic here in ...
Panamanian party poopers? - COPWATCH: a Consumer Guide to ...
Past COP events have occasionally been somewhat embarrassing for the WHO. Could COP10 follow this trend? Who can forget when an outbreak of Ebola i...
What Is the Congressional Tobacco Harm Reduction Caucus?
The new congressional tobacco harm reduction caucus is supported by Philip Morris International, which sells smoke-free products in the U.S.
‘SWAP TO STOP’ | UK to Provide One Million Smokers Free Va...
In an astonishing announcement, the UK government released details of a new program to cut smoking rates in Britain dramatically. Dubbed ‘Swap to S...
Campaign For Tobacco-Free Kids Amplifies False Claim from ...
A recent Campaign For Tobacco-Free Kids newsletter touting its crusade to rid the world of tobacco products put the spotlight on menthol...
New GSTHR Briefing Paper
A new GSTHR Briefing Paper has been released that addresses the tobacco harm reduction potential of nicotine pouches
Vil vurdere drastisk røykegrep
We can do like England, namely give smokers an escape route to less dangerous intake of nicotine, says Karl Erik Lund, senior researcher at FHI and...
Study title: A systematic review of RCTs to examine the ri...
Associations between cigarette smoking and increased risk of cardiovascular disease are well established. However, it is unclear whether the associ...
UK’s World-First Plan to Give Vape Kits to a Million Peopl...
Nothing like this has been done on such a scale, and the public health outcomes will be there for the world to see.
Minn. proposed flavor tobacco ban faces opposition
A bill banning the sale of flavored tobacco is leaving some tobacco shops and tobacco users with concerns.Products like menthol cigarettes, flavore...
UK Swap to Stop Scheme. Exciting public health policy. Int...
The UK will be providing 1 million smokers with a free vape kit and behavioural support to help them quit smoking. This is exciting, evidence-based...
Vaping Doesn't Cause Wheezing and More! THR News
New study finds vaping doesn't cause wheezing. CASAA gets mentions in 2 articles. UK giving out free vape kits. Calls to Action and more!
All ‘rational roads’ lead to vaping being the ‘better choi...
Sky News host Cory Bernardi says all rational roads lead to vaping being the “better choice” over tobacco as he pushes the government t...
GFN News #53 | CHANGE OF MINDS IN EU PARLIAMENT? | Featuri...
The Global Forum on Nicotine (GFN), which has taken place every year since 2014, is the only international conference to focus on how vapes, nicoti...
Consumers Issued A Call To Action
Consumer charity The New Nicotine Alliance has issued a call to action for UK vapers as the World Health Organisation plans “a global assault on va...
Is Canada Turning the Corner on Tobacco Harm Reduction?
Subtle signs indicate that Health Canada may be abandoning opposition to vapes that stood in stark contrast to its other drug policies.
Ex-minister leads latest bid to legalise and regulate e-ci...
A bill to legalise and regulate the sale, marketing and consumption of e-cigarettes in Argentina has been put forward by a former government minister
Do studies show vaping causes cancer? No.
Even the best studies haven't surmounted a key statistical issue, and they tend to distort the evidence to make e-cigarettes look dangerous.
Vaping: Free e-cigarettes to be handed out in anti-smoking...
Pregnant women will also be paid to quit smoking under government plans to be set out on Tuesday.
Britain to encourage smokers to swap cigarettes for vapes
Up to one million smokers will be encouraged to swap cigarettes for "vapes", with pregnant women offered financial incentives to make the change in...
GFN News #54 | BEHIND THE SCIENCE: SNUS AND NICOTINE | Fea...
The Global Forum on Nicotine (GFN), which has taken place every year since 2014, is the only international conference to focus on how vapes, nicoti...
Justice seized against the prohibition of vape flavours in...
Esigbond, the association of vape professionals, files a complaint against the ban on vape flavours in the Netherlands
Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems, Cigarette Use, and S...
This cohort study evaluates the association between electronic nicotine delivery systems, cigarette use, and self-reported wheezing in a population...
The UK government announces new enlightened and proportion...
The New Nicotine Alliance (UK), a registered Charitable Organisation #1160481, is concerned with improving public health, through a greater underst...
Why the Northern Territory should urgently embrace vaping ...
THE NORTHERN TERRITORY GOVERNMENT is seeking submissions on vaping for a Parliamentary Inquiry. This is long overdue. Vaping could help to reduce t...
Vapers: Health, society and the laws. Experts respond in WEEK
This topic divides opinions in the world, but researchers affirm that its use helps combat smoking.
#Safer Episode 1: Argentina - Documentary about people who...
#SAFER ARGENTINA takes us to the land of fire in South America, where the government has banned harm reduction alternatives for people who smoke, u...
The Truth About Youth Vaping in the United States
Charles Gardner Ph.D., Executive Director of INNCO, explains the current figures of young people using cigarettes, and nicotine vapes. Also, he bri...
INNCO at Lisbon Addictions 2022
Charles Gardner Ph.D., Executive Director of INNCO, and Atakan Befits, Global Advocacy & Policy Analyst of INNCO, talk about the Lisbon Addictions ...
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