Michael Landl

America’s Focus on Vaping Misses the Point

The latest Lancet Global Burden of Disease report makes it abundantly clear: young adults are suffering a rising tide of untimely deaths related to mental health, overdose, suicide, preventable chronic diseases, and violence, even while global death rates …
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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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Does the EU Commission think you are a rat?

Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi used the FILTERED Conference to address the EU cardiovascular plan and signalled that the EU Commission plans to increase taxation and regulation on less harmful nicotine products, such as 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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EU-Gesundheitspolitik: Brüssel verliert sich im Kleinklein

Europa steht vor großen Herausforderungen: schleppendes Wirtschaftswachstum, sinkende Produktivität, eine Energiekrise und geopolitische Unsicherheiten. Doch statt Reformen zur Stärkung der europäischen Wettbewerbsfähigkeit zu verfolgen, erlebt die EU-Kommission eine Phase, in der sie sich lieber …
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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’ official policy: Harm reduction pushed aside in favour of outda …

The European Commission has crossed a line: it’s now official policy to claim that new nicotine products carry health risks “comparable to smoking”. Commissioner Varhelyi confirmed this in a written answer to a question …
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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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Barbados can shape the future of tobacco control

arbados has made impressive progress in reducing smoking rates—the lowest in the Caribbean region—but there is still work to do. The stark difference between men’s and women’s smoking rates shows that targeted, practical solutions …
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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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Streecks Forderung nach Aroma Verbot gefährdet Rauchstopp-Erfolge

Der Drogen- und Suchtbeauftragte Hendrik Streeck fordert eine Einschränkung von Aromen für E Zigaretten.E argumentiert, süsse und fruchtige Geschmacksrichtungen seien vor allem für Jugendliche gedacht. Doch wer die Debatte nur auf den Jugendschutz reduziert, …
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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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Trinidad and Tobago should stand tall for harm reduction at COP11

Later this year, leaders from all over the world will meet in Geneva at COP11, a major gathering organised by the World Health Organization (WHO) to shape tobacco policy. Although the goal is 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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WHO backs Thailand’s E-Cigarette Ban: Ignoring Evidence and Silencing Con …

Thailand’s ongoing ban on e-cigarettes, supported by the World Health Organization (WHO), is a policy deeply disconnected from real-world evidence and the voices of those it most affects: the consumers seeking safer alternatives 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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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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