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What’s Behind the UK’s Migration to Nicotine Pouches?

People in the United Kingdom are using nicotine pouches in rapidly growing numbers—both to quit smoking, where these low-risk options…

July 20, 2026

World Health Organization Misses the Whole Point About Nicotine Pouches

The World Health Organization has released its first-ever report on nicotine pouches, portraying the safer nicotine products as a health…

June 1, 2026

People Who Vape Are Lab Rats, Says California “Public Health” Campaign

Clockwork Orange-like images show a sweating, terrified young man in a dark laboratory with a black metal contraption on his…

April 30, 2026

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 rate of just 3.7 percent—well below…

April 14, 2026

Oklahoma Prisoners Can Now Buy “Jail Puff” Vapes and Pouches

Oklahoma has just begun allowing prisoners to purchase safer nicotine products—vapes and pouches—at commissary. Some jails already permitted this, as…

March 30, 2026

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