Michael Landl

COP11 Agenda Confirms WHO’s Hostility Towards Harm Reduction

29 July 2025 – The preliminary agenda for COP11 confirms that instead of facilitating a balanced, science-led discussion on how to reduce smoking-related deaths, the WHO and FCTC Secretariat have opted for an ideologically …
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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 Agenda Reveals Deep Bias Against Harm Reduction

The recently released preliminary agenda for COP11 confirms what many in the tobacco harm reduction (THR) community have long known: the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is again not preparing for an …
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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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Brussels Misses the Goal While Harm Reduction Nations Lift the Trophy

Brussels recently hosted a Champions League final of a different kind. As the World Vapers’ Alliance awarded Sweden, the Czech Republic, and Greece the “Champions of Change” trophy for their achievements in tobacco harm …
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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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There is a democratic deficit at the heart of EU policy making

As the World Conference on Tobacco Control unfolded in Dublin this week, a powerful visual protest captured a fundamental injustice: consumers, the very people most affected by tobacco policies, remain systematically excluded from global decision-making. The “Voices …
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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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Leading Scientists Urge EU Commission to Base Nicotine Policy on Science, N …

When misinformation comes from the very top, it’s not just frustrating—it’s dangerous. That’s exactly why the recent open letter from European Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (ETHRA), signed by 21 renowned experts, is so important. …
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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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Why Flavour Bans Are a Threat to Public Health – A Response to the WHO FC …

On World No Tobacco Day, the WHO FCTC has once again demanded a ban on flavours in all nicotine products, claiming these ingredients increase product attractiveness. This move, announced on a day meant to …
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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 EU Commission’s Misinformation on Vaping: A Deadly Disservice to Publ …

The European Commission’s top officials are shamelessly spreading misinformation about vaping, and it’s keeping people smoking. Instead of following the science, they’re parroting propaganda that equates vaping with smoking, ignoring decades of evidence 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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Greece’s Flavour Ban: From Progress to Prohibition

reece is once again at a crossroads in its approach to tobacco control. Despite recent progress, the government is now considering a ban on vaping flavours – a move that threatens to undermine the country’s hard-won …
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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 WHO’s Failure to Protect Health: Insights from the TPA Webinar

The Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) recently hosted a “Countdown to COP11” webinar, assembling leading experts to examine the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and its shortcomings over the past …
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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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Steuereinnahmen aus Vapes & Co: Die Zahlen entlarven das politische M …

Die aktuellen Zahlen, die der VDEH auf Basis der Daten des Statistischen Bundesamtes aufbereitet hat, sprechen eine eindeutige Sprache: Die Steuereinnahmen aus weniger schädlichen Nikotinprodukten wie E-Zigaretten und Nikotinbeuteln bleiben weit hinter den vollmundigen …
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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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