Kiran Sidhu

    Kiran is a tobacco harm reduction fellow for Filter. She is a writer and journalist who has written for publications including the Guardian, the Telegraph, I Paper and the Times, among many others. Her book, I Can Hear the Cuckoo, was published by Gaia in 2023. She lives in Wales.

    Kiran’s fellowship was previously supported by an independently administered tobacco harm reduction scholarship from Knowledge-Action-Change—an organization that has separately provided restricted grants and donations to Filter.

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    Argentina Repeals Vape Prohibition After 15 Years

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    Banning Cigarettes, Threatening Vapes: A New UK Landscape

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    New Hub Platforms Lived Experiences of Tobacco Harm Reduction

    People with lived experience of using safer nicotine products for harm reduction take center ...

    “Embarrassing”—Experts Slam EU’s Self-Congratulatory Smoking Report

    A European Commission report on smoking and nicotine use is being condemned for unjustified ...

    Sweden Is Now the World’s First “Smoke-Free” Country

    Sweden has become the world’s first “smoke-free” country, with an astonishingly low daily smoking ...

    Many Flaws, Few Retractions: “Vapes-Cause-Cancer” Studies

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