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COP11 insider speaks out: censorship, influence, and lost trust

The latest comments from Jindřich Vobořil, a respected public health and drug policy expert with decades of international experience, describe what many of us have long feared about the direction of the WHO’s 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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Wrapped: Our Year Together at the World Vapers Alliance

What a year. 2025 was intense but also inspiring. So, I’d like to look back together with you and share what we accomplished as a community, as well as where we pushed back against …
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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-wide Disinformation on Less Harmful Nicotine Products Continues

One might think that all possible false claims about less harmful nicotine alternatives have already been spread, and that at some point, it would stop. If that’s the case, Olivér Várhelyi has proven otherwise …
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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 Fearmongers Are Poisoning the Well on Harm Reduction

The 2025 “Teen Popcorn Lung” Case That Isn’t In the endless scroll of social media doom, few things are more infuriating than a viral post that weaponizes half-truths and outright fabrications to demonize something …
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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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COP11 Wrap-Up: The WHO Loses Control Over Its Prohibitionist Agenda

Last week, the World Health Organization hosted COP11, its flagship global tobacco control conference, and instead of reinforcing its grip on nicotine policy, it revealed how fragile its agenda has become. From the outset, …
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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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COP11 Day 5: The EU’s Internal Battle Spills Into Geneva

As negotiations stretch into their fifth day at COP11, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the biggest fights are within the EU itself. According to a report by Euractiv, several EU countries have accused 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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COP11 Day 4: First Cracks in the ideological wall

It is day 4 of COP. After 104 country delegate statements, the policy discussions are underway, and the first leak has emerged. The EU Commission and Denmark are pushing for bans on vaping and …
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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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COP11: Day 3 No Updates – Doors are closing on consumers & the p …

Welcome to the third day of COP11. Unfortunately, we don’t have any new updates to share with you today because consumer voices and the public are being shut out from these important negotiations about …
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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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COP11 Day 2: Voices Breaking Through the Noise

Day two of COP11 offered something unexpected. While most delegations continued the well-rehearsed ritual of announcing bans and restrictions, a handful of countries broke ranks again. They demanded evidence, transparency, and a seat at …
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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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COP11 Day 1: The Echo Chamber Effect

Today, COP11 has opened with the same old story. Countries patting each other on the back for ever-stricter restrictions on less harmful nicotine products, while barely glancing at what the evidence actually shows about …
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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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