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The FDA Might Be Thawing to THR: Here’s How It Could Move Faster

Baby steps, but 2025 might have been the year the United States Food and Drug Administration started changing course on…

December 15, 2025

High-Nicotine Pouches Help People Stay Off Cigarettes—If Available

Pouches with higher nicotine levels can make a vital contribution to tobacco harm reduction, by delivering the satisfaction people may…

October 29, 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

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

Family Tragedy Spurs One Man’s Drive to Cut Smoking in South Africa

Kurt Yeo is the co-founder of Vaping Saved My Life (VSML), a South African consumer group, which among other things…

April 29, 2025

High-Smoking France Bans Disposable Vapes and Nicotine Pouches

France has banned the sale of disposable vapes, becoming the second country in Europe to do so. The law took…

February 28, 2025

FDA’s Authorization of Zyn Nicotine Pouches a Step in the Right Direction

In a groundbreaking move, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized the marketing of 20 Zyn nicotine pouch…

February 7, 2025

Despite Everything, More People Than Ever Choose Safer Nicotine Options

“People talk about a war on smoking, a war on nicotine or a war on vapes,” Harry Shapiro told Filter.…

November 26, 2024

Storm in a Teacup Over Soccer Stars’ Snus Use

“I used to have the odd cigarette on a night out,” wrote Jamie Vardy, the Leicester City striker and 2016…

June 10, 2024

Predictable, Avoidable and Harmful: Canada’s Nicotine Pouch Fiasco

Canada is supposedly organized on the principles of “peace, order and good government.” My country’s handling of nicotine pouches, an…

March 29, 2024