Michael Landl

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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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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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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Cherry-picking science: How Brussels buried the data that works

The European Commission has just published its evaluation of the Tobacco Products Directive — the legal document that will shape tobacco and nicotine policy across the EU for the next decade. It is supposed to be …
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Sweden Is Now Smoke-Free. The EU Is Pushing Policies That Would Make That I …

1 April 2026 — New data from Sweden’s leading public health research institute, CAN, confirms that daily smoking among adults has fallen to just 3.7%, well below the WHO’s and EU’s 5% smoke-free threshold. …
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Deutschland verbietet Aromen. Der Schwarzmarkt übernimmt den Rest.

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 …
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Europe’s Vaping Black Market Is Booming. Politicians Need to Wake Up.

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. …
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Belgium Is About to Hand the Vape Market to Criminals

Belgium has already banned disposable vapes. Now there are discussions about going further — restricting or banning flavoured e-cigarettes. It sounds decisive. It is not. It is a policy that will grow the black …
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Aromenverbot: Wissenschaft versus Minister Rainer

Deutschland steht vor einem gesundheitspolitischen Knieschuss, befeuert durch ideologische Verblendung. Das geplante „De-facto-Aromenverbot“ ist nichts weniger als ein staatliches Konjunkturprogramm für den Schwarzmarkt und den Zigarettenkonsum. Durch ein Aromenverbot treibt die Regierung Millionen von …
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23 Scientific Experts Confront von der Leyen Over Commission’s “Damagin …

BRUSSELS, 27 February 2026 – In an open letter addressed to President Ursula von der Leyen, 23 of Europe’s leading scientific experts have condemned the European Commission for spreading “damaging misinformation” regarding the safety …
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