Vietnam creates a nicotine monopoly for tobacco cigarettes by banning the sales of minimally harmful alternatives. And a WHO representative celebrates the creation of a tobacco cigarette monopoly! Shocking and totally irrational damage to public health

The WHO director celebrates the creation of a nicotine monopoly for tobacco cigarettes through banning minimally harmful alternatives. A measure that punishes smokers and deprives them of the human right of health promotion (having access to harm reduction products). Unbelievable

There is a saying in Greek: "Stupidity is unbeatable". The measures in Milan have nothing to do with air pollution, public health and passive smoking.

It is irresponsible and unacceptable for a scientist to make media statements before completing/publishing his study and while ignoring the strong epidemiological evidence AGAINST his media claims.... mirror.co.uk/news/health/wo… ecigarette-research.org/research/index…

By they way, arterial function IMPROVES after switching from smoking to e-cigarette use, IRRESPECTIVE of nicotine use. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31740017/ And, by the way (#2), snus is full of nicotine and does NOT increase the risk for cardiovascular disease. harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

New Study Challenges Claims About E-cigarette Risks: A closer look at the data identifies vaping has similar risk reductions for heart attacks, strokes and COPD as quitting smoking without using any alternative. tinyurl.com/yasrev2y

New study: Oral health effects of non‑combustible nicotine products: a systematic review and network meta-analysis, evaluated the oral safety of products such as e-cigarettes, heated tobacco products, snus, and nicotine replacement therapies (NRT). sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The European Commission is DANGEROUSLY DEVIATING from its commitment for evidence-based policies, by FALSELY classifying life-saving tobacco harm reduction products as equally-harmful to smoking. The "tax raid" against harm reduction products with certainly HARM public health.

The EU Health Commissioner attacks tobacco harm reduction but talks about EU Cardiovascular Health Plan. He ignores that e-cigs were EQUALLY EFFECTIVE as complete nicotine cessation in preventing cardiac events in patients with coronary heart disease. See: tinyurl.com/ycd46zfd

The EU Commission attack on tobacco harm reduction will harm all European smokers but PARTICULARLY the most vulnerable and socially deprived groups, in whom e-cigarettes were found to be 3-TIMES MORE EFFECTIVE than NRTs in smoking cessation. See: acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/AN…

The EU Health Commissioner acknowledges that the EU plans to ignore science & common sense that non-combustible nicotine products CANNOT be as harmful to smoking. 95% risk reduction (or more, see: rcp.ac.uk/improving-care…) is mispresented by the EU as "comparable health risks"

The European Commission deviates from its commitment to evidence-based policies by ranking non-combustible nicotine products, such as nicotine pouches and vapes, as equally harmful to cigarettes. This is one of the biggest misinformation campaigns in history, greatly compromising