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Argentina Repeals Vape Prohibition After 15 Years

Argentina has ended its prohibition of vapes and other safer nicotine products. Tobacco harm reduction advocates welcome the repeal as…

May 19, 2026

Three Former WHO Directors Urge It to Back Tobacco Harm Reduction

Three former World Health Organization directors say the goal of reaching a global smoking rate below 5 percent by 2040…

May 14, 2026

Psilocybin Shows Growing Potential for Smoking Cessation

Quitting smoking is hard, and anything that might help should be thoroughly explored, particularly when we know different options work…

May 12, 2026

Tobacco Harm Reduction Should Be Part of HIV Care

Globally, around 41 million people are living with HIV. And just about everywhere, smoking rates for this population are far…

May 8, 2026

FDA Finally Authorizes Fruit-Flavored Vapes. Here’s What It Took.

On May 5, the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) did something it has never done before: It authorized fruit-flavored…

May 6, 2026

Banning Cigarettes, Threatening Vapes: A New UK Landscape

The United Kingdom's government aims to create a “first smoke-free generation,” after its long-running Tobacco and Vapes Bill finally became…

May 4, 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

New Hub Platforms Lived Experiences of Tobacco Harm Reduction

People with lived experience of using safer nicotine products for harm reduction take center stage on a new platform that…

April 28, 2026

“Embarrassing”—Experts Slam EU’s Self-Congratulatory Smoking Report

A European Commission report on smoking and nicotine use is being condemned for unjustified self-contragulation, anti-scientific opposition to tobacco harm…

April 20, 2026

Will the CDC Finally Abandon the Damaging Term “EVALI”?

Health economist Michael Pesko is asking the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a question it should have answered years…

April 16, 2026