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The European Parliament passed in plenary today its response to the Commission’s Safe Hearts Plan, the EU’s first cardiovascular health strategy. The report itself is mostly about blood pressure targets, cholesterol screening and access …

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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.
Health Canada updated its national tobacco and vaping data tool this year, and the youth numbers are worth sitting with. In 2024, 3.6% of Canadian teens aged 12 to 17 had smoked a cigarette. …

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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.
In an interview published yesterday by Euractiv, Health Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi said he hopes the EU’s tobacco and nicotine tax overhaul will be “agreed as part of the MFF package,” adding that “otherwise, health …

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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.
Imagine you land at the Doha airport after a long flight, clearly one of the busiest airports in the world. As a smoker, you won’t experience any problems following the directions to the smoking …

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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.
Just last week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorised 11 new nicotine pouches to enter the American market, clearing them through the agency’s premarket tobacco product application (PMTA) process.  That brings 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.
Nicotine is under attack. Politicians and so-called health NGOs worldwide have declared war on nicotine and want these products more restricted or banned outright. But unfortunately, in their ideological fight, they have gone blind …

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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.
Brazil’s vape ban created chaos, and its own press is blaming vaping instead of the ban. Media outlets spent the last few weeks correlating vapes with diabetes, cancer, poisoned toddlers, and the honest read …

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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.
Hi folks, It’s been a while since our last wrap-up blog. It might seem like summer is slow, but there are plenty of things happening around the THR world. So, let’s have a nice …

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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.
EU Health Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi posted an update on LinkedIn this week under the headline “New products, new risks: Europe’s tobacco rules must be fit for the future,” framing Brussels’ next move on 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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