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.

    Government Consultation Amid UK Plan to Treat Vape Shops as “Unwanted”

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    Malaysia’s Impending Vape Ban Poses Multiple Threats

    Malaysia is set to ban sales of all vaping products, phasing them out by ...

    WHO’s COP11 Will Threaten Tobacco Harm Reduction Behind Closed Doors

    In November, COP11—the World Health Organization’s 11th Conference of the Parties to its Framework ...

    Contentious Study Gave Pregnant Women Low-Nicotine Cigarettes

    Pregnant women who smoke participated in a recent study looking at very low-nicotine cigarettes ...

    Media, Researchers Fuel More Vape Misperceptions

    Media scaremongering about tobacco harm reduction options, often involving credulous amplifications or distortions of ...

    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 ...

    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 ...

    Pouches Close Sweden’s Tobacco Harm Reduction Gender Gap

    Sweden’s use of the oral tobacco product snus has led it towards becoming the ...

    The Flavor of Harm Reduction: Vapes in a Hostile US

    Vaping with flavors versus having to vape without them: The difference might sound trivial. ...

    “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 ...