Nicotine is addictive and not risk-free, but – contrary to what many believe – experts agree that nicotine itself is not the primary cause of smoking-related...
July 28th, 2021A powerful example of the harm reduction potential of alternative tobacco products comes from Sweden, where over the past 50 years men have switched from smoking...
June 23rd, 2021Low-and-middle-income countries, where 80% of the world’s smokers live, are the new battleground in a war between the world’s top anti-tobacco outfits and a...
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...
