Kiran Sidhu

Media, Researchers Fuel More Vape Misperceptions

Media scaremongering about tobacco harm reduction options, often involving credulous amplifications or distortions of studies that are themselves incomplete or…

August 25, 2025

EU Plan to Heavily Tax Safer Substitutes for Cigarettes Draws Fire

The European Union is looking to impose heavy and unprecedented bloc-wide taxes on safer nicotine products. Tobacco harm reduction advocates…

August 21, 2025

Disposable Vapes Still Widely (and Predictably) Sold in Post-Ban UK

Disposable nicotine vapes are still being sold by retailers in the United Kingdom, even though they were recently banned. This…

August 13, 2025

Pouches Close Sweden’s Tobacco Harm Reduction Gender Gap

Sweden's use of the oral tobacco product snus has led it towards becoming the world’s first “smoke-free” country (defined as…

August 6, 2025

The Flavor of Harm Reduction: Vapes in a Hostile US

Vaping with flavors versus having to vape without them: The difference might sound trivial. But people whose lives have been…

July 31, 2025

“Infantile” UK Plan Would Fine People Who Vape at Bus Stops

People who vape at outdoor bus stops in the United Kingdom could soon be fined up to £100, under a…

July 28, 2025

Swapping Cigarettes for Vapes or HTP Rapidly Boosts Fitness, Study Finds

People who switch from smoking to vapes or heated tobacco products can improve their fitness levels in as little as…

July 16, 2025

Who’s Missing From the Tobacco Harm Reduction Conversation?

When it comes to tobacco harm reduction, whose opinions and voices should be heard? The question was put to a…

July 11, 2025

Leading US Nicotine-Consumer Voice Falls Silent

Nicotine consumers who have made life-changing switches to safer products, and their organizations, form the heart of the tobacco harm…

July 1, 2025

Nicotine Consumer Advocates Share Strategies, Support Amid Hostility

Advocates work with the government while activists fight with the government," Maria Papaionnoy-Duic, the founder of Canadian consumer group Rights…

June 25, 2025