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What South Korea Can Teach Europe About Taxing Nicotine

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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THR Wrap-Up: Kenya’s Tobacco Debate, Czech Advocacy, and the Fight Agains …

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.
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OLAF Fights Smugglers. The EU Feeds Them.

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.
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Congratulations, You Made Vaping Look Deadly

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.
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Kenya’s Tobacco Control Bill Should Follow Science, Not Fear

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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Warum finden Drogenbeauftragte Verbote immer gut?

Egal, welche Partei die Position des Drogenbeauftragten besetzt, die Richtung ist immer dieselbe: Deutschland braucht mehr Regulierung und Verbote, ganz egal in welchem Bereich. Das kennen wir von Daniela „Cannabis ist kein Brokkoli” Ludwig …
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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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European Parliament rejects Commission’s plan to hike taxes on nicoti …

Strasbourg, 18 June 2026. The European Parliament rejected the European Commission’s plan to establish minimum excise tax rates on vapes, nicotine pouches and heat-not-burn products. In two sequential votes on the revision 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.
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THR Wrap-Up: Sweden Shows the Way on Smoke-Free Policy

Big hello to the THR community supporters. We are back with another update on what’s new in the THR world. Let’s start with some good news. The European Parliament has, for the first time, …
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Sweden Blocks EU Tobacco Tax Hike as Talks Resume

Brussels, 4.6.2026 — Sweden has come out against the EU’s plan to raise taxes on nicotine pouches ahead of this week’s renewed negotiations on the Tobacco Taxation Directive. The proposal would impose higher minimum …
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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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