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19 May 2025<\/strong> – The newly published draft United Nations declaration<\/a> on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) aims to reduce global tobacco users by 150 million by 2030 – an 11.5% reduction from the current 1.3 billion. While this ambition is welcome, the World Vapers\u2019 Alliance (WVA) warns that the declaration\u2019s reliance on traditional tobacco control measures risks repeating past failures and missing a historic opportunity to accelerate progress through harm reduction.<\/p>\n

The draft declaration proposes a familiar package of interventions: higher tobacco taxation, graphic health warnings and plain packaging, comprehensive advertising bans, and stricter regulation of vapes and other safer nicotine alternatives. These approaches have been at the centre of global tobacco control for decades. Yet, despite widespread adoption, global smoking rates remain stubbornly high.<\/p>\n

Michael Landl, Director of the World Vapers\u2019 Alliance, commented:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe UN\u2019s draft declaration risks missing its targets by clinging to outdated strategies. Embracing harm reduction is the fastest path to a smoke-free future and the most compassionate and effective. The evidence is clear: it\u2019s time for a new direction.\u201d
\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Instead of doubling down on restrictive measures and further stigmatising less harmful alternatives, the UN must embrace the evidence: harm reduction works, and it works fast.<\/p>\n

Sweden is the world\u2019s leading example. By making safer nicotine products like snus, nicotine pouches, and vaping widely accessible and regulating them proportionally to their risk, Sweden has slashed its smoking rate by 55% in just a decade. Today, only 5.3% of Swedes smoke\u2014by far the lowest rate in Europe.<\/p>\n

Michael Landl further states:<\/p>\n

\u201cSweden\u2019s success is a clear result of its sensible and science-backed harm reduction approach. Instead of demonising less harmful alternatives, Sweden embraces them and regulates based on risk. This approach has saved countless lives and provides a roadmap for the world. <\/em>The UN must follow Sweden\u2019s lead if it truly wants to accelerate the fight against smoking and NCDs.<\/em><\/strong>\u201d
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The UN\u2019s draft declaration risks missing its targets by clinging to outdated strategies. Embracing harm reduction is the fastest path to a smoke-free future and the most compassionate and effective. The evidence is clear: it\u2019s time for a new direction.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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