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Two different scientific papers, published in different contexts, point to the same uncomfortable truth: nicotine is more complex than the slogans suggest. In a study on patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment, researchers administered 2 …

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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.
Dear vapers, It’s time for another weekly wrap-up – I hope you’re ready. Here are some updates from the past week. First, it’s worth mentioning again that the WVA has joined a pan-European coalition …

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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.
Across Africa, tobacco control policy remains largely frozen in time. While science and technology have evolved, many governments continue to regulate all nicotine products as if they carry the same level of risk as …

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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.
Deutschland steht vor einem gesundheitspolitischen Desaster. Während fast jeder dritte Erwachsene im Land raucht – eine Schockquote von fast 30 Prozent, die seit Jahren kaum sinkt – plant Landwirtschaftsminister Alois Rainer (CSU) den Frontalangriff …

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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.
The debate over how the EU should tax nicotine products has taken a significant turn. In its draft opinion on the revision of the Tobacco Taxation Directive (TED), the European Economic and Social Committee …

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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.
The EU is highly likely to jeopardise harm reduction efforts by imposing higher taxes on less risky nicotine products, while Sweden has systematically proven through its approach that harm reduction is one of 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.
In the final hours of the European Economic and Social Committee’s (EESC)* session on the Tobacco Excise Directive (TED), a manoeuvre emerged that has left observers stunned. Andris Gobiņš, a Latvian member of 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.
For years, public conversation around nicotine has been dominated by one word: youth. Every headline, press release, and policy proposal seems to revolve around the fear that a new generation is on the brink …

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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 recent weeks, a little-known NGO called Impact Unfiltered has found itself at the center of a troubling controversy in Brussels. The organization claimed that thousands of consumer submissions to the EU Tobacco Tax …

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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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