Peter Beckett at Clearing the Air uncovered something that Brussels hoped nobody would notice. The European Commission’s evaluation of the Tobacco Products Directive, the report that is supposed to form the legal foundation for the biggest revision of EU tobacco...

Despite having ample evidence that the neglect of a harm reduction approach and prohibitionism is failing, the lessons have never been learned. Even though sales, import and distribution of vapes is already prohibited in Turkey accompanied by a blooming black...

The TPD evaluation report was supposed to deliver an objective, data-driven assessment of whether the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive has succeeded in protecting public health and putting the EU on track to achieve its 2040 smoke-free goal. Instead, the report...

There are moments when you read a policy proposal and genuinely wonder if reality has been completely ignored. The recent push to ban safer nicotine alternatives in the Philippines is one of those moments. In the excellent analysis by Clive...

In Deutschland wird gerade über ein Verbot von Aromen in E-Zigaretten diskutiert. Der Gedanke dahinter klingt vernünftig: weniger attraktive Produkte, weniger Jugendliche, die vapen. Die Realität sieht anders aus. Ein Aromatenverbot wird den Schwarzmarkt stärken, Jugendschutzmaßnahmen aushöhlen und erwachsene Raucher...

A new study by the Fraunhofer Institute and MRU GmbH has put some hard numbers on something vapers have known for a while: the illegal vape market in Europe is massive and growing fast. According to the research, nearly half...