"Sub-Saharan Africa must urgently embrace tobacco harm reduction, according to a new briefing paper published by Knowledge-Action-Change (KAC), a public health group based in the United Kingdom." filtermag.org/tobacco-harm-r…

In Sub-Saharan Africa, more than 200,000 people die every year from smoking-related deaths. A great briefing paper from The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction looks at Africa’s urgent need for tobacco harm reduction policies. gsthr.org/briefing-paper…

Terrible devastation in Malawi following Cyclone Freddy, lives lost, villages destroyed- nothing on news ⁦BBC Breakfast⁩ Thinking of my friend ⁦Wilfred Jekete⁩ and all the ppl of Malawi

Louise BBC Breakfast Wilfred Jekete :( - that “Freddy” has been awful. I hope your friend, and the rest, are ok …

It’s often said that young ppl shouldn’t vape if they haven’t already smoked. So they should expose themselves to smoke as a passport to vaping? And what about the ones who choose to vape because their friends are using weed & they don’t want to join in, but they want to FIT in?

"“With around 3,000 cigarette brands on the market largely untouched by its burdens and bureaucracy, FDA has been using and abusing its powers to squeeze the life out of much safer alternatives,” Bates said." dcjournal.com/house-oversigh…

Alcohol kills 140,000 Americans every year, including 3,900 teens. But, "at the launch of a new craft beer, does anyone ask, 'is this appropriate for the protection of public health?' Of course they don’t—it’s beer!" Time to de-demonize nicotine. tobaccoreporter.com/2023/04/01/bey…

My latest... Tobacco Harm Reduction is "an unsatisfactory and incomplete framework for understanding the direction and destination of the consumer nicotine market." To see clearly into the decades ahead, we need to rethink nicotine tobaccoreporter.com/2023/04/01/bey… Tobacco Reporter

With bank holiday rain across the country, why not make today the day you write to your MP and focal point about upcoming threats at the World Health Organization (WHO) #FCTCCOP10? Full details and how to do so here. nnalliance.org/nnanews/newsle…

Finland: Liberalised nicotine pouch regulation could be short-lived yle.fi/a/74-20026404

The importance of considering unintended consequences Is UK Government’s “Smoke-Free Generation” Bid Losing Its Way? filtermag.org/uk-smoke-free-…

*NEW* GSTHR briefing paper shines a light on the tremendous work done by consumer advocates for #tobaccoharmreduction #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

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#ecigsummit Blistering takedown of the sources contributing to misperceptions about comparative risks of smoking and vaping

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