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To Save Veterans’ Lives, the VA Must Innovate on Smoking Cessation

The United States has invested trillions of dollars to equip our armed forces with hardware and technology. Yet over the…

April 12, 2024

Our Ban Has Failed: Time for India to Regulate Vapes

The first Indian state to ban vapes was Karnatataka, in 2016. The reason for this is that Karnataka, in the…

April 3, 2024

Predictable, Avoidable and Harmful: Canada’s Nicotine Pouch Fiasco

Canada is supposedly organized on the principles of “peace, order and good government.” My country’s handling of nicotine pouches, an…

March 29, 2024

A Long Walk With the Tobacco Users of Mumbai

I'm taking a walk through central Mumbai with Rizwan, who switched from smoking tobacco to vaping, then turned vape seller.…

March 27, 2024

Heated Tobacco Products Can Help the US Make Smoking Obsolete

From vapes to snus and nicotine pouches, we have a growing array of much safer substitutes for the combustible cigarettes…

March 22, 2024

Why India’s Future “Will Not Be Vape-Free”

Vapes have taken JK on a remarkable journey. From smoking multiple packs of cigarettes a day, he switched suddenly and…

March 19, 2024

It’s Critically Important to Tell Women the Truth About Nicotine

Elaine Keller, a cancer survivor and powerful advocate for tobacco harm reduction, once asked an important question: “Why is your…

March 8, 2024

Rising Numbers of Brits Who Smoke Don’t Know That Vaping Is Safer

English adults who smoke are increasingly unaware that vapes are less harmful than cigarettes, new data reveal. That’s in a…

March 5, 2024

The WHO Prioritizes Youth Who Don’t Smoke Over Adults Who Do

The World Health Organization recently held its 10th Conference of the Parties (COP10) to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control…

February 23, 2024

Never Too Late: Quitting Smoking at Any Age Slashes Cancer Risk

Quitting cigarettes at any age greatly reduces your risk of cancer, according to a major new study. Its findings should…

February 22, 2024