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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.
Bad news is good news, and good news is ignored. This slogan summarises the modern-day media landscape. Modern media is addicted to scaremongering, and health policy is no exception. Every study, every mouse lab …

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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 the vaping debate, India continues to be one of the worst examples of how nicotine policy should be shaped in favour of consumers rather than illicit trade. In India, the prohibition on vapes …

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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.
South Korea taxes nicotine pouches at more than four times the rate it taxes a pack of cigarettes. A new report from Smoke Free Sweden compares the results of that approach with Sweden’s, 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.
Hello Vapers, I’m back with another THR Wrap-Up, bringing you some of the latest updates from the tobacco harm reduction community. Let’s start with a partner spotlight. Our partner Joseph Magero from Kenya has …

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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.
OLAF, the European Union’s Anti-Fraud Office, just announced the seizure of illicit tobacco worth more than 10 million euros. 50 people were arrested. That is a win against organised crime, but probably not more …

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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.
Congratulations to the media, politicians and Bloomberg-funded NGOs. You are winning. You bombarded the general public and especially smokers and vapers with misinformation for a decade, and now a majority of them believe vaping …

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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.
As Parliament considers the proposed Tobacco Control Amendment Bill, Kenya faces an important choice. Should nicotine products be regulated based on scientific evidence, or should all products continue to be treated as equally harmful …

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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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