smoking

How Vaping Has Surged Among Prisoners in the UK

Prisoners in the United Kingdom spent close to £8 million on nicotine vapes in the 2021-22 financial year, according to…

May 30, 2023

Will a Change of Leadership End the CDC’s Vaping Misinformation?

On May 5, Rochelle Walensky, the director of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), announced her…

May 16, 2023

Why I’m Still Fiercely Optimistic About Tobacco Harm Reduction

Harm reduction is often misconceived as policies and practices introduced by governments and delivered by experts. In fact, it is…

May 9, 2023

Heated Tobacco Products Help People Quit Smoking, Even Unintentionally

People who smoke switched entirely to using safer heated tobacco products when provided with them, found an important new study—even…

April 19, 2023

UK’s World-First Plan to Give Vape Kits to a Million People Who Smoke

The United Kingdom will be offering free nicotine vape kits to one million people who smoke cigarettes. Nothing like this…

April 13, 2023

Georgia Poised to Criminalize Vaping in Public Spaces

The state of Georgia has long criminalized harm reduction whatever way it can, and tobacco harm reduction has not escaped…

April 3, 2023

Will New Bloomberg Funds Spread Vape Bans in Low-Income Countries?

In February, billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s charitable organization Bloomberg Philanthropies announced an additional tobacco control commitment of $420 million. A significant…

March 30, 2023

Massachusetts Post-Menthols Ban: Mixed Smoking Impacts, More Policing

Massachusetts is experiencing the aftershocks of menthol prohibition. In 2020, the Bay State became the first in the country to…

March 15, 2023

Tobacco Fairs, Free NRT and Few Vapes: A Conversation in Cuba

Winning a prize for my laughable “dancing” skills at a bar in Havana was a major surprise. But it should…

March 9, 2023

Why Are My Classmates Switching From Vaping to Smoking?

When I first arrived in Rome to attend university last summer, I was surprised by both the widespread cigarette smoking…

March 6, 2023