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The European Parliament Is Drifting Toward Evidence on Nicotine

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.
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European Parliament drifts toward harm differentiation in new cardiovascula …

Strasbourg, 16 September 2026. The European Parliament adopted in plenary its report on the European Commission’s Safe Hearts Plan, the EU’s first cardiovascular health strategy. The report, drafted by Croatian rapporteur Romana Jerković was …
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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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Canada’s Own Numbers Just Undercut the Vaping Gateway Theory

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.
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Várhelyi’s Nicotine Math Doesn’t Add Up

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.
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Flying through Doha With a Vape? Here Are Things You Need To Know

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.
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The US is moving fast on pouches, the EU should follow its lead

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.
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How much more evidence do they need?

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.
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Before the TPD proposal: Cochrane gives vaping its highest grade of evidenc …

Vaping beats patches and gum 26.8.2026 – An updated Cochrane Review of 80 randomised trials covering almost 30,000 smokers has found that nicotine vaping helps more smokers quit than nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) such …
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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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Brazil’s Vaping Coverage Has Become a Misinformation Assembly Line

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.
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