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Várhelyi’s Nicotine Math Doesn’t Add Up

In an interview published yesterday by Euractiv, Health Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi said he hopes the EU’s tobacco and nicotine tax overhaul will be “agreed as part of the MFF package,” adding that “otherwise, health …
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Flying through Doha With a Vape? Here Are Things You Need To Know

Imagine you land at the Doha airport after a long flight, clearly one of the busiest airports in the world. As a smoker, you won’t experience any problems following the directions to the smoking …
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Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
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The US is moving fast on pouches, the EU should follow its lead

Just last week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorised 11 new nicotine pouches to enter the American market, clearing them through the agency’s premarket tobacco product application (PMTA) process.  That brings the …
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Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
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How much more evidence do they need?

Nicotine is under attack. Politicians and so-called health NGOs worldwide have declared war on nicotine and want these products more restricted or banned outright. But unfortunately, in their ideological fight, they have gone blind …
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Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
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Brazil’s Vaping Coverage Has Become a Misinformation Assembly Line

Brazil’s vape ban created chaos, and its own press is blaming vaping instead of the ban. Media outlets spent the last few weeks correlating vapes with diabetes, cancer, poisoned toddlers, and the honest read …
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Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
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THR Wrap-Up: What’s Happening in the THR World This Summer

Hi folks, It’s been a while since our last wrap-up blog. It might seem like summer is slow, but there are plenty of things happening around the THR world. So, let’s have a nice …
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Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
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EU Health Commissioner Várhelyi Continues Misinformation Push on Nicotine

EU Health Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi posted an update on LinkedIn this week under the headline “New products, new risks: Europe’s tobacco rules must be fit for the future,” framing Brussels’ next move on tobacco …
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Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
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Inconvenient truth: vaping kills smoking

Bad news is good news, and good news is ignored. This slogan summarises the modern-day media landscape. Modern media is addicted to scaremongering, and health policy is no exception. Every study, every mouse lab …
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Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
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India continues punishing vapers, while having high tobacco usage rates

In the vaping debate, India continues to be one of the worst examples of how nicotine policy should be shaped in favour of consumers rather than illicit trade. In India, the prohibition on vapes …
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Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
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What South Korea Can Teach Europe About Taxing Nicotine

South Korea taxes nicotine pouches at more than four times the rate it taxes a pack of cigarettes. A new report from Smoke Free Sweden compares the results of that approach with Sweden’s, and …
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