When public health policymakers implement flavour bans or other restrictions to reduce the appeal of nicotine vaping products to youth, inevitably, these int...

Smokers find it harder to get e-cigarettes, which can save lives.

England has taken a progressive approach to tobacco harm reduction. On this page we look at the main highlights.

Researchers have conducted a further study to see if vaping works better than nicotine replacement treatment to help such smokers to reduce smoking.

CoEHAR researchers replicate the most relevant studies on the topic, demonstrating lower toxicity of nicotine-releasing electronic device

Before we get too deep into the show notes this week, I need to let you know we had a lot of comments blocked ot removed on FB last week for no apparent reas...

The New Brunswick Medical Society (NBMS) recently published “Physicians pleased with new restrictions on vaping products”. As a physician, I would l like to make it clear that I am NOT …

Listen to this episode from PSYCHOACTIVE on Spotify. Matt Culley was an early adopter of vaping and became a prominent vaping activist. He's also worked as a product designer, consultant, and is a board member of Consumer Advocates for Smoke-free Alter...

Oh, the lingering of death. What a business. Keep death alive. Hospitals don't make money otherwise. Drug companies either. If you're rich and you have the money, you can pay to die. But the poor,

The E-cigarette summit – science, regulation, and public health, took place virtually on the 7th and 8th of December, 2021. Scientists, policymakers and public health professionals have been participating in this event annually since 2013.

The UK Vaping Industry Association’s Director General has been invited to talk on national TV in China to give his thoughts on recent proposed regulation changes in China and their potential impact on the Chinese vaping industry both domestically and g...

The number of people using tobacco has not declined for nearly a decade, causing almost eight million death worldwide every year. Yet despite the lack of progress, official bodies and posters on social media channels continue to push back against THR w...

What’s going to dominate the vaping scene in 2022? We round up the key themes and big ideas from experts from across the world...

Providers need to stop telling patients they have no choice but to stop completely, says a new paper in The Lancet HIV.

Juul and other e-cigarette companies have—often with very good reason—become public enemy number one in the war on tobacco. But what if they do offer adult smokers a path to quitting?

Alarmist media reports recently suggested that vaping causes erectile dysfunction (ED or impotence). However, any increase in ED was almost certainly caused by previous smoking, not vaping. In the US study, men were asked if they would like to answer a...

The Philippines Senate has passed a bill that would regulate vaping products, and removes regulatory authority from the country’s FDA.

The Real Academia Española is a private, publicly funded Spanish cultural institution based in Madrid, Spain. It and twenty-three other Spanish language academies corresponding to each of the countries where Spanish is spoken make up the Association of Spanish Language Academies (Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española).

THE Senate, in a voice vote with only one objection, passed on Tuesday, December 14, Senate Bill (SB) 2239 or the Vaporized Nicotine Product measure that aims to regulate the use...

Results from the 2021 Monitoring the Future Survey report substance use behaviors and related attitudes among adolescents in the U.S.

Researchers dispute a study claiming that vaping damages DNA in humans. LOS ANGELES — Drs. Konstantinos Farsalinos and Caitlin Notley have published a commentary article in The Conversation disputing the conclusion of a recent study published by a prom...

Consumer group AVCA have responded to New Zealand government’s Smokefree Action Plan, saying it fails to elevate vaping

They've invested in companies such as Philip Morris International, Altria, and British American Tobacco.

For the first time in 20 years, smoking rates are on the rise. That mournful finding ought to be reinvigorating the effort to stamp out cigarettes. Astoundingly, the opposite is happening.

Nicotine is one of the most misunderstood chemicals on the planet. Dr. Colin Mendelsohn weighs in on the common myths associated with nicotine.

On Thursday 9 December, the European Parliament’s Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA) met for the final time to vote on amendments and the Rapporteur’s report on how to strengthen Europe’s role in the fight against cancer. The report was adopted...

The ninth edition of the Global Forum on Nicotine (#GFN22) will take place in Warsaw, from Thursday 16th to Saturday 18th June, at the Marriott Centrum Hotel.

A group of acclaimed experts wrote to Asia Pacific’s Health Ministers and Secretaries to express their concern and address the inaccuracies in the World Health Organisation’s Tobacco Product Regulation Report (TobReg).

Joe Hildebrand has revealed how he kicked his smoking habit. After smoking cigarettes for 25 years Joe took up vaping and put the ciggie down. ‘Stop Smoking Start Vaping’ author Dr Colin Mendelsohn told Joe “vaping is the most successful quitting aid.”...

Smoking rates in Great Britain continued to spiral down in 2020, according to the latest findings produced by the Office for National Statistics

Two Filipino medical doctors commended the Senate and the House of Representatives for legislating a bill that aims to regulate

The National Preventive Health Strategy 2021 launched today by health minister Greg Hunt has failed to deliver for Australia’s smokers, vapers and Indigenous people. The Strategy identifies tobacco smoking as the leading cause of preventable death and ...

6.4% of the population were reported to have used e-cigarettes