Weekly Issue | Feb 6th, 2023
“There's some confusion and misleading information about vaping, which can make it difficult to work out what's true or not. Find out the facts: https://www.nhs.uk/better-health/quit-smoking/vaping-to-quit-smoking/” BetterHealth NHS
Hi Dear Friends,
We hope you are doing amazingly well. The deadline to complete the case studies has been extended to February 12th. If you still need to finish, please do it before this date. With COP10 coming this November and a recent increase in the backing to push against harm reduction alternatives, we must have the necessary tools to demonstrate our arguments.
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.
If you think we have missed any relevant news or if you want to highlight any stories, please email jz@innco.org.
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.
We had a Press Release concerning media coverage on topics related to Harm Reduction for people who smoke or used to smoke combustible tobacco; if you have yet to see it, you can check it out here.
The dates for the Global Forum on Nicotine have been officially announced. GFN23 will be from June 21st to the 24th. You can visit their website here.
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Vaping: public health’s unhealthy obsession | The Spectato...
The Australian public health industry is overpopulated with intellectual egotists – activists, academics, and bureaucrats who insist they know best...
Tobacco control is not a zero-sum game
Tobacco harm reduction should be paired with stronger age enforcement for purchasing tobacco products and youth awareness campaigns.
Child poisoning from vaping. Is it time to panic yet? - Dr...
THE ABC RECENTLY REPORTED an alarming rise in child poisoning from vapes [here]. Fortunately, a closer look reveals that this was just another scar...
Safer-Nicotine Consumer Groups Have Almost No Funding Worl...
Their meager resources pale in comparison to their opponents, finds a new paper, and their work relies heavily on volunteers.
Vaping harms overstated in viral video - Full Fact
A widely shared video on TikTok and Instagram exaggerates and misrepresents the risks of vaping.
Case Study Malaysia
In a hospital case report, doctors at the University of Malaya Medical Centre treated a young man for a pneumothorax – despite him being a smoker, ...
GFN News #40 | USA BATTLE FOR FLAVOURED VAPES | Featuring ...
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...
NSP - Harrys’ blog 116: Unheard Voices
Nicotine consumer advocates the world over are fighting for the right to health. Nobody is listening.There are over 100 million users worldwide of ...
The Western War on Vaping is Harming Public Health - R Street
Most people who work on the topic of tobacco harm reduction are aware of the potential advantages of e-cigarettes in helping adults who smoke break...
Mendelsohn on GFN.tv
Dr Colin Mendelsohn has spoken to GFN.tv about the push to increase the restrictions on vaping in Australia, a point of view that he shares with th...
A Good News Story - Tobacco Reporter
Tobacco harm reduction has made more progress than the naysayers suggest.
A Chat with Dr. Colin Mendelsohn
Wednesday Night Live Wednesday at 6 pm PST Host: John Truncali, Tim Swift, Paul Blamire, and, Allison Boughner Guest Host: Phillip Kirschberg G...
Survey Details Advocacy for Safer Nicotine - Tobacco Reporter
KAC released a global survey investigating role and activities of consumer organizations advocating for access to safer nicotine products and THR.
Correcting Tayler Hansen's Terrible Take On Vaping
Ultimately id like him to be correct about vaping. Tayler is kind of doing exactly what FDA and CDC want him to be doing. Keeping the public misin...
GSTHR Speaks About Its Study
GSTHR speaks about its new survey that reveals scale of consumer advocacy for safer nicotine products - and need for recognised role in global poli...
ETHRA January news roundup
European Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates promotes discussion and the exchange of information and potential actions to reduce exposure to tobacco-r...
Registration for GFN 2023 — Global Forum on Nicotine
🇵🇱Poland is at the top of the CNN Where To Travel in 2023 list!
🎉So why not make #GFN23 your reason to visit Poland in 2023?
⚡️GFN has been held in W...
Vaping harms overstated in viral video - Full Fact
A widely shared video on TikTok and Instagram exaggerates and misrepresents the risks of vaping.
Sarah Game MLC on ABC Adelaide
Sarah Game MLC has prepared a Bill for the SA Parliament to legalise vaping to "save adult smokers' lives & address youth vaping by starving the bl...
It’s combustion in cigarettes that kills, not nicotine
The burning of tobacco at high temperatures, and not nicotine, makes smoking so deadly according to two of the world’s leading cancer experts.
January 2023 Podcast
This podcast is a companion to the electronic cigarettes Cochrane living systematic review and shares the evidence from the monthly searches. In th...
Germans Attack Harm Reduction
The German Medical Association is attempting to drive a tank through tobacco harm reduction by calling for a complete ban on e-liquid flavours
GFN News #39 | NEW VAPING RESTRICTIONS IN MEXICO | 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...
Nicotine pouches soon to be banned: 'Pity that important d...
The use of nicotine pouches will be banned, Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke (Vooruit) announced. The Flemish Institute for Healthy Living react...
United States public health officials need to correct e-ci...
Health misinformation is harmful as it can cause confusion and sow mistrust regarding the adoption of public health recommendations and policies. W...
A Netherlands Nicotine Pouch Ban Would Assure That Dutch S...
The Dutch government has published a “ consultation ”, or invitation to comment, on proposed legislation to ban nicotine pouch...
ALL IN (PART 2) | Is Big Tobacco A Threat to Vaping? | Reg...
Is big tobacco a threat to the nicotine vaping industry? This is an old and touchy question for many vaping advocates. Most assume that at some poi...
80% of French people think that vape gives cancer
A recent survey conducted by the National Cancer Institute shows that the majority of French people are totally uninformed about e-cigarettes.
Misinformation lives forever on the Internet
A flawed study falsely stated that an increase in teen vaping was associated with an increase in teen smoking. The article was quietly corrected, b...
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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