On Wednesday 4 November 2020 from 10:00 GMT, Knowledge-Action-Change is set to launch Burning Issues: The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction 2020, a major new report documenting both the advances and significant challenges facing tobacco harm reduction in 2020. The report is the second in a biennial series from the Global State of […]
On Wednesday 4 November 2020 from 10:00 GMT, Knowledge-Action-Change is set to launch Burning Issues: The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction 2020, a major new report documenting both the advances and significant challenges facing tobacco harm reduction in 2020. The report is the second in a biennial series from the Global State of Tobacco […]
By Damilola Babatunde and Marvelene Ekott According to The Encyclopedia Britannica, “Smoking is the act of inhaling and exhaling the fumes of burning plant material. A variety of plant materials are smoked, including marijuana and hashish, but the act is most commonly associated with tobacco as smoked in a cigarette, cigar, or pipe. Tobacco contains […]
Samrat Chowdhery is the director and founder of Association of Vapers India – AVI and Council for Harm Reduced Alternatives -CHRA. These organizations have been advocating for risk reduction in tobacco use since 2016, and most importantly, campaigning for access to less harmful alternatives such as vaping, snus, and Heat not Burn in order to […]
This year’s Global Forum on Nicotine 2020 is scheduled for Thursday, June 11 and Friday, June 12. To be streamed LIVE! The annual program has always brought together hundreds of consumer advocates, health professionals, scholars and industry stakeholders since its inception in 2014, to discuss the science behind nicotine and policies, and have always been […]
@GoingSmokefree: Welcome to our twitter chat as we host @ChaunceyGardner to discuss ‘Innovative approaches to support smoking cessation. Use the hashtag #SaferAlternatives to join in the conversation @ChaunceyGardne: Ask away! @GoingSmokefree: Thank you for making time to join us .Kindly introduce yourself to our audience , for those that may not be familiar with you […]
Uche Olatunji March 30, 2020 To state the obvious, smoking kills. Tobacco smoking is the world’s leading preventable cause of premature death. Here in Nigeria, there are at least 11 million smokers, and despite declining prevalence, a fast-growing population means that the actual number of smokers is on the rise. This is especially […]
Press release Over half of smokers believe nicotine vaping products are equally or more harmful than smoking despite US vaping deaths being caused by substances banned in UK. Public Health England’s (PHE) sixth independent e-cigarette report, commissioned from researchers at King’s College London, is published today (Wednesday 4 March 2020) alongside new PHE advice on […]
The Africa tobacco harm reduction forum (ATHRF) is a bi- annual convening that brings together key stakeholders involved in efforts to curb conventional cigarette smoking in Africa. The platform draws together actors from governments, civil society, International organizations, legislators, media, academia and national campaigners to take stock of the current state of play on cigarette […]
Clive Bates This paper turned up in my weekly search of PubMed. Invalidity of an Oft-Cited Estimate of the Relative Harms of Electronic Cigarettes. Eissenberg T, Bhatnagar A, Chapman S, Jordt SE, Shihadeh A, Soule EK. Am J Public Health. 2020 Feb;110(2):161-162. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2019.305424. The commentary claims to show the “invalidity” of the statements made […]