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Former WHO Officials to Global Health Community: Harm Reduction Works

Three former WHO officials have published a commentary in Nature Health calling on the global health community to formally integrate tobacco harm reduction into international tobacco control policy. The authors, Robert Beaglehole, Ruth Bonita, …
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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 Weekly Wrap-Up: When Policy Misses the Point

Hi vapers, After a short pause, I’m back again with another wrap-up to share some news from the THR world. Probably the biggest update in recent weeks for consumers in the EU was 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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EU TPD Review Under Fire: Consumer Groups Demand Evidence-Based Tobacco Pol …

With the European Commission’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) soon to be revised, the tobacco policy debate in Europe is reaching a boiling point, revealing an ever-increasing divergence between scientific evidence and regulatory action. A rising …
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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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Rejected by Its Own Watchdog. Published Anyway. Welcome to EU Tobacco Polic …

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 …
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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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Turkey on its way of tobacco policy failure

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 …
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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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Consumer Groups Across Europe Write to Commission: Stop the War on Harm Red …

Brussels, 13 April 2026 — Seven consumer organisations from across Europe have signed an open letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Health Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi, urging them to rethink 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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Sette associazioni contro la Commissione: “Politiche Ue incoerenti sui pr …

Una coalizione di sette associazioni di consumatori provenienti da diversi Paesi europei e realtà internazionali ha deciso di intervenire direttamente nel dibattito sulla futura politica europea in materia di nicotina, inviando una lettera aperta …
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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 Tax Opposed

The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) draft opinion on the revision of the Tobacco Taxation Directive (TED) has met with support from consumers and experts. They are calling on the European Union to follow “a risk‑based …
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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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TPD Attacked

The European Commission stands accused of undermining its own smoke-free ambitions and putting millions of lives at risk by targeting safer nicotine alternatives that are helping smokers to quit. The World Vapers Alliance and …
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