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High-Nicotine Vapes Don’t Increase Nicotine Use Compared With Smoking, Study Finds

A new study published in Nicotine and Tobacco Research suggests that vaping products with higher nicotine levels are more effective…

August 17, 2022

I’m 79 and in Prison. Cigarettes Have Shaped My Life.

Tobacco settles the nerves, relaxes the body, quiets the mind. A mild, pleasant high. I'm not making any scientific or…

August 16, 2022

Life as a Vaping Advocate Under India’s Prohibition

In late 2019, the Indian government issued a ban on vaping products. The ordinance, originally announced by the finance minister,…

August 1, 2022

The EU’s Bizarre Plan to Beat Cancer by Protecting Cigarette Sales

It was widely reported at the end of June that the European Commission, the European Union’s executive branch, is proposing…

July 13, 2022

Global Forum on Nicotine Seeks to Accelerate Harm Reduction for All

At a hotel in central Warsaw, hundreds of public health experts, consumer advocates for safer nicotine alternatives, industry representatives and…

June 24, 2022

NZ Hospital Leads the Way by Giving Vapes to Patients Who Smoke

The Whanganui District Health Board (DHB) has announced that its hospital on New Zealand’s North Island will go smoke-free on…

June 23, 2022

“Gone With the Smoke”—San Francisco Harm Reductionist Talks Vapes

Jason Norelli is a harm reduction navigation manager at Glide in San Francisco. I interviewed him for the video above at…

June 15, 2022

Authorizing Very Low Nicotine Cigarettes Is Short-Sighted

In a surprising decision at the end of 2021, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted a new tobacco company,…

June 14, 2022

The Right to Health Means the Right to Tobacco Harm Reduction

A brutal culture war is raging on the role of harm reduction to hasten the end of smoking. But as…

June 7, 2022