Earlier this week, Quebec’s Health Minister Christian Dubé announced that any vape flavours other than tobacco will be banned across the province. The ban will go into effect on October 31st, and besides the flavour ban, the new measure also includes a restriction on the maximum nicotine concentration allowed in vapes, at...
Press ReleaseIBVTA statement on the clear warning from new ASH/YouGov survey New data on the behaviour and attitudes to e-cigarettes among adults aged 18 and over has been published today by Action on Smoking and Health (ASH). The Smokefree GB analysis conducted by ASH is based on data collected by...
If you are on Twitter and follow Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) advocates, no doubt you will have seen this latest press release from ASH UK (Action on Smoking & Health) titled – “Four in ten smokers wrongly believe that vaping is as or more harmful than smoking“. That is utterly...
Cochrane UK sadly will be closing at the end of March 2024. An announcement on their website states that this is due to the end of NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) funding. About Cochrane UKThe group based in Oxford UK is a part of the larger Cochrane...
Press ReleaseFrom WHO’s Misguided Claims to Evidence: A Closer Look at Vaping’s Role in Reducing Smoking Rates. 1 August 2023 Yesterday’s publication of the World Health Organization’s “Report on the global tobacco epidemic, 2023” once again discounts the powerful impact of harm reduction and vaping, reaffirming WHO’s adversarial stance against...
