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Barbados can lead the Caribbean to a smoke-free future

Barbados stands at the cusp of making history. With smoking rates at just 6.4% of adults, the nation has achieved the lowest smoking prevalence in the Caribbean region. Yet despite this success, thousands of Barbadian lives …
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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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Brussels’ official policy: Harm reduction pushed aside in favour of outda …

The European Commission has crossed a line: it’s now official policy to claim that new nicotine products carry health risks “comparable to smoking”. Commissioner Varhelyi confirmed this in a written answer to a question …
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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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EU Commission makes misinformation its official policy

Brussels, 15 September 2025 — The European Commission’s official statement that “new nicotine products” have health risks comparable to smoking marks a new level of misinformation. Commissioner Varhelyi confirmed this in a written answer …
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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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Experts urge WHO to embrace harm reduction in global tobacco policy

MANILA, Philippines — Health advocates from around the world pressed the World Health Organization (WHO) to embrace harm reduction as a central pillar of global tobacco control, urging delegates to the upcoming Framework Convention on …
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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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Is Big Tobacco’s Influence Swaying the FDA’s Vape and Pouch Approvals?

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) is tasked with regulating tobacco and nicotine products, including vapes and oral nicotine pouches. A recent Reuters article highlights how the FDA …
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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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Don’t Ignore the People: The WHO and EU Must Listen to Consumers on Tobac …

New Delhi [India], September 8: As policymakers and international health officials convene in Dublin to determine the course of tobacco and nicotine regulation, one critical perspective is conspicuously absent: the voice of consumers. At 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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Small Countries, Big Voices: How Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, and Othe …

As the world prepares for COP11 in Geneva this November, most eyes are on the usual global heavyweights. But this year, the most important voices in the room might come from smaller nations—countries like …
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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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Barbados can shape the future of tobacco control

arbados has made impressive progress in reducing smoking rates—the lowest in the Caribbean region—but there is still work to do. The stark difference between men’s and women’s smoking rates shows that targeted, practical solutions …
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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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Streecks Forderung nach Aroma Verbot gefährdet Rauchstopp-Erfolge

Der Drogen- und Suchtbeauftragte Hendrik Streeck fordert eine Einschränkung von Aromen für E Zigaretten.E argumentiert, süsse und fruchtige Geschmacksrichtungen seien vor allem für Jugendliche gedacht. Doch wer die Debatte nur auf den Jugendschutz reduziert, …
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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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