February 17th, 2021Public interest consultant and former United Kingdom government advisor Clive Bates has accused policymakers and anti-tobacco lobbyists of ‘insanely’ turning their...
February 10th, 2021With more than one billion smokers in the world and 11 million in South Africa, smoking-related diseases are a pressing problem. Scientifically substantiated smoke-free...
November 18th, 2020A report from the Knowledge Action Change public health agency in the United Kingdom has revealed there are only nine users of safer nicotine products for every 100...
November 4th, 2020Tobacco control strategies in South Africa could be complemented by a harm reduction approach to reduce smoking rates faster, writes Marcelo Nico, MD of Philip Morris...
A combination of early school interventions and parental behaviour modelling is required to mitigate aggressive alternative tobacco-use marketing aimed at adolescents...Uncategorized
One of the tragedies of fighting the losing battle against tobacco related deaths and disease globally is that those active in tobacco control have relied more on a...Uncategorized
The potentially life-saving switch by smokers to non-combustible nicotine products is being severely undermined by skewed perceptions about their safety – especially...International
The six-month COVID-19-induced ban in South Africa on selling tobacco products could have had “potentially disastrous consequences”, says Professor Konstantinos...
September 30th, 2020Too many doctors and other healthcare professionals fail to properly support nicotine addicts and fall short of their immediate duty of care – let alone help avoid a...
Tobacco harm reduction advocates have warned that consumers stand to suffer from prohibitive policies imposed by authorities against smoke-free nicotine products such as...
