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New Zealand Government Initiative Shows Welcome Support for Tobacco Harm Reduction

The New Zealand government has launched an online resource endorsing—and educating about— vaping products as valuable harm reduction tools for…

June 11, 2019

Mexico Public Health Agency Lashes Out Against Tobacco Harm Reduction

Mexico's consumer health protection agency has effectively denounced the US Food and Drug Administration's recent approval of IQOS, a heat-not-burn…

June 4, 2019

Three Takeaways From Filter’s Tobacco Harm Reduction and Health Justice Event

On May 17, Filter hosted a panel entitled "Tobacco Harm Reduction, Vulnerable Populations & Health Justice" at New York University, attended by…

May 21, 2019

The Year Is 2020, and the US Has Banned Vapes. What Happens Now?

President Donald Trump finished his overture at this year’s Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit in Atlanta by asking attendees…

May 15, 2019

US Arrival of Heat-Not-Burn Is Another Option for Smokers to Switch

Last week the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved IQOS, a device that delivers nicotine by heating, not burning, tobacco…

May 7, 2019

New Evidence of Smoking Disparities Underlines That Tobacco Harm Reduction Is Social Justice

Americans experiencing compounded social marginalization are at greater risk of initiating use of—and not cutting use of—tobacco products, according to…

April 23, 2019

Rite Aid Is Wrong to Stop Selling Vapes (They’ll Still Sell Cigarettes)

In a huge blow to smokers who are trying to switch to safer nicotine products, Rite Aid, one of the…

April 18, 2019

In Approaching Nicotine, Let’s Learn From Past Harm Reduction Victories

Alternative nicotine products—including e-cigarettes, lower-risk tobacco alternatives like snus, and heat-not-burn devices—have fallen under disproportionate levels of scrutiny all over…

April 15, 2019

As FDA Suggests E-Cigs Cause Seizures, US Public Is Increasingly Misinformed About Tobacco Harm Reduction

On April 3, in one of Commissioner Scott Gottlieb's final acts before departing on April 5, the US Food and Drug…

April 9, 2019

“Nicotine Hunger”—UK Harm Reductionist’s Inspiring Work Protecting Vulnerable People’s Health

Louise Ross is a leader in tobacco harm reduction in the UK, where millions of people have successfully switched from combustible cigarettes…

March 29, 2019