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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    Up to Six Months in Jail for Vape Use in Bangladesh

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    New Zealand Embraces Vapes to Cut Smoking—and Cuts Youth Vaping

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    Nicotine a Heart Threat, Per “Expert Consensus Report.” Experts Disagree.

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    A Rare Case of Open Debate on Tobacco Harm Reduction 

    “If safer alternatives can save lives, what responsibility do we have to science, to ...

    Cheered On by the WHO, Vietnam Tightens Total Vape Ban

    On December 11, Vietnam passed an amendment to its Investment Law in order to ...

    “Ugly” COP11 Attacks THR, But Nations Avert Worst Damage

    The World Health Organization’s 11th Conference of the Parties (COP11) to its Framework Convention ...

    Personal Attacks on THR Proponents Ramp Up Amid COP11

    Tobacco harm reductionists have grown used to operating under fire as they seek access ...