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Look Behind the Headlines About Rising Vape-Related ER Visits

This summer, the Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center published a report showing what appears to be a shocking trend:…

October 2, 2025

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 Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) treaty—will…

September 29, 2025

What New York’s Cigarette Litter Says About Tobacco Control

Welcome to New York City, the cigarette tax evasion capital of the East Coast. A new study of littered cigarette…

September 9, 2025

Contentious Study Gave Pregnant Women Low-Nicotine Cigarettes

Pregnant women who smoke participated in a recent study looking at very low-nicotine cigarettes (VLNC). The study adds to a…

September 4, 2025

Media, Researchers Fuel More Vape Misperceptions

Media scaremongering about tobacco harm reduction options, often involving credulous amplifications or distortions of studies that are themselves incomplete or…

August 25, 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

Indian Doctors Join Call to End the Country’s Vape Ban

India’s vape ban has been enforced for six long years, in a country where smoking kills over 1 million people…

August 18, 2025

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 though they were recently banned. This…

August 13, 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

Despite FDA Authorization, the Damage of the Juul Frenzy Lingers

Well, well, well. On July 17, after five long years trying to prove what had already been proven—vapes are vastly…

August 4, 2025