Weekly Issue | Mar 13th, 2023
"It is important to acknowledge that over-regulating or banning vaping products could have unintended consequences. If smokers are unable to access vapes or other alternatives, they may be more likely to continue smoking cigarettes resulting in more harm" INNCO on Twitter
Hi Dear Friends,
We hope you are doing amazingly well. 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.
INNCO made a press release concerning the THR Summit Spain 2023, where apparently pressure from the Spanish Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation tried to prevent a much-needed debate on the role of Harm Reduction tools in a nation where the prevalence of people who smoke continues to increase. You can read it 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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In the past six months, INNCO has answered 12 special requests by members. If you need assistance with anything we can help, please don't hesitate to contact us at info@innco.org.
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Below you can find last week's news that we think you might want to check out in case you missed any of them.
Curated by the INNCO's Secretariat
Patterns of flavored e-cigarette use among adults vapers i...
Background. Flavored e-cigarettes remain a controversial topic with regulators planning or already implementing restrictions worldwide. In this stu...
Smoke Free Sweden 2023: Breakfast Launch Event
Sweden is aspiring to do something unique, which no other country in Europe is remotely close to - that is to become smoke-free in 2023.
Queensland's parliamentary inquiry into vaping a political...
QUEENSLAND IS CONTINUING ITS VENDETTA against vaping, announcing a parliamentary inquiry to investigate the prevalence of youth vaping and to confi...
Indian Law And Toxic Fumes-The Need To Reconsider Vape Law
With the Incremental upsurge in the usage of Electronic Cigarettes and Vapes among Youth in the past years, the Government of India responded by ...
The Need to Research Tobacco Control Initiatives
By Syed Sahim Tobacco control is not working for most of the world, it is not progressing and maintains the status quo. Interestingly, four out of ...
A Mom Debunks the Teen Vaping 'Epidemic'
Among the all-too-frequent consumer panics stoked by the American news media, few have matched the hand-waving, rafter-shouting, blue-in-the-face i...
Vaping Science: Correlation or Causation? with Annie Kleykamp
On this week's episode, we have special guest Annie Kleykamp, a scientist and harm reduction advocate committed to "removing the barriers that sepa...
Safer, Zamora's view of Argentina » VAPING TODAY
The first episode of the miniseries #Safer Argentina demonstrates the audiovisual power to stimulate critical thinking and make people reflect on t...
Debunking Vaping "Gateway" Claim and More! THR New
Debunking vaping "gateway" claim. The downside of banning flavors. Senator Durbin makes no sense. Calls to Action & more!
#sonoflibertyradio - Dain Bramage
We asked Dr. Sussman answeredhttps://twitter.com/RobertoSussman/status/1631944600196612096?t=sOJPaKqDOgb5RwB_7zTfDA&s=19&fbclid=IwAR2cZayJHcnDLsV8Q...
GFN.TV Interviews | NO HESITATION | The “Old Chemist” Talk...
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...
ETHRA: It's Time To Act
The time to act on a new European Union consultation is now, according to ETHRA (European Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates)
PubPeer - Impact of the e-cigarette era on cigarette smoki...
There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Impact of the e-cigarette era on cigarette smoking among youth in the United States: A population-le...
Massachusetts' tobacco ban went as badly as you'd expect
Revenue officials are seizing so many illicit products that they’re running out of room to store them.
Tobacco Fairs, Free NRT and Few Vapes: A Conversation in Cuba
Tobacco is firmly entrenched in Cuban culture. When I visited, I wanted to learn more about this—and access, or lack of it, to harm reduction.
INNCOorg on Twitter
Czech national coordinator, Jindřich Vobořil said “taxation for nicotine pouches or electronic cigarettes should be lower than for traditional ciga...
The dangerously flawed advice putting Aussie lives at risk
An independent and impartial Australian review of the evidence by a balanced committee is urgently needed before further...
The EU’s vaping tax is bizarre and irrational
Why is Brussels so keen on punishing those who want to quit smoking?
Send a message to oppose the provincial tax on vaping prod...
Flavour Ban and Provincial Tax Alert in Quebec for Harm Reduction products! If you would like to oppose to this proposal, please follow this link: ...
Quitting smoking is tough but we should maximise products ...
As the Conservative MP for Workington and a former smoker, I recognise the acute health disparities and understand the challenges faced by those in...
Smoking: the Italian Minister retracts the ban draft
The intervention of Riccardo Polosa and Giovanni Li Volti (cOEHAR) was essential to deter the Minister of Health Schillaci from supporting an unpop...
Cultural change is crucial to consigning smoking to the pa...
This past year promised to be an important one when it came to putting in place properly researched tobacco harm reduction policies. Unfortunately,...
While UK Helps Smokers Quit, U.S. Cracks Down on Vapes
The Food and Drug Administration continues to treat e-cigarettes with disdain despite their proven ability to help people quit smoking.
CRUK’s No Smoking Day Letter
Cancer Research UK is sending an open letter to the Health Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer demanding that they act to ensure a new Tobacc...
GFN News #46 | DENYING THE SCIENCE | Clive Bates discusses...
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...
Who has the answer for India’s big tobacco debate?
Top orthopedic surgeon Dr Kiran Melkote - also a top official of AHER, a harm reduction group - spoke to seasoned journalist Shantanu Guha Ray on w...
Sales of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) and C...
Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) are a potentially lower-risk tobacco product which could help smokers switch completely away from cigar...
La vape avec d’autres arômes que le goût « tabac » augment...
Utiliser des arômes s'éloignant du "tabac" accroît les chances d'arrêter de fumer avec le vapotage
First Latin American Nicotine and Risk Reduction Forum
Bienvenidos
#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 ...
Harm Reduction & Human Rights
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