Cigarettes. Vapes. Pouches. Heated tobacco. Bloomberg has front-row seats and backwards policy.
Sweden has the lowest smoking rate in Europe. It also has among the lowest smoking-related death rates. The WHO/Bloomberg machine should be studying Sweden. Instead, as @zaruk writes, it is trying to beat it into submission. clearingtheair.eu/post/the-swe...
Two former WHO directors have a simple warning for the UK: Don’t let new tobacco laws make it harder for adult smokers to switch to safer nicotine products. Protect young people, yes, but don’t accidentally protect cigarettes at the same time. clearingtheair.eu/post/former-...
Dutch ministers have rejected a national disposable vape ban. Not because they suddenly love vaping, but because they think it may be legally uncertain and better handled at EU level.
Translation: the Netherlands wants Brussels to do what it can’t safely do alone.
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This may be the most INSANE tobacco-control proposal yet.
A country where tobacco kills 26 people a year is being manipulated to lobby the UN to classify nicotine like meth, while its obesity rate is among the highest in the world.
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A new study found fruit-flavoured vapes are now widely used by UK Stop Smoking Services and vaping-supported quit rates beat other support in the services reporting both. So why are politicans trying to ban them? clearingtheair.eu/post/fruit-f...
One year after Britain banned disposable vapes, 6.3 million vapes and pods are still being thrown away every week. The law may have changed but behaviour didn't... In this weeks deep dive, we look at the implications of the ban. clearingtheair.eu/post/one-yea...
Only 21.4% of healthcare providers in this study knew vaping is less harmful than smoking. That is a complete and utter public health failure. clearingtheair.eu/post/most-he...
When a paper’s own peer reviewer says the results may have “nothing to do with vaping”, maybe don’t run headlines telling smokers that switching to vapes doesn’t reduce lung cancer risk. Looking at you @DailyMail clearingtheair.eu/post/study-c...
BRUSSELS: The Kubin report is bad, but the people trying to kill it may be worse.
Why? Because buried inside it is the one sentence Brussels tobacco control fears most:
Not all nicotine products carry the same risk.
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Two former WHO directors say the UK must keep its focus on smoking as new tobacco and vape laws take effect. The Lancet comment welcomes the Act’s distinction between combustible tobacco and…
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On the surface, the UK’s disposable vape ban appears to have worked. Among 11 to 17-year-olds who vape, the share saying they mainly use disposables has fallen from 42 per cent in 2025 to 13 per cent…
EurActiv reported yesterday that the French nationalist-right party, the Front National, might abstain from a vote in the European Parliament tonight on the EU tobacco tax revision tomorrow. If they…
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The question for Sweden is whether it will stand up and fight, or accept a beating from the tobacco control industrial complex. The first rule in any bar fight is to always punch the biggest guy…
A tiny archipelago with a population of just 18,000, has asked the UN to put nicotine on the same list as crystal meth, ecstasy and the date-rape drug GHB in an audacious move co-ordinated by…
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A new PLOS One study found only 21.4% of healthcare providers and trainees recognised vapes as less harmful than combustible cigarettes. Most participants, 60.2%, believed vapes were just as harmful…
A new study found vaping products are now widely used by UK Stop Smoking Services. In the detailed results, 27 out of 28 local authorities reported providing vapes to help smokers quit. Every service…
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A new study suggesting vapes may weaken the lung cancer benefits of quitting smoking was challenged during peer review over serious methodological concerns. The study, published in Nature Medicine on…
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The Dutch government has rejected plans for a national ban on disposable vapes, warning that such a move would be legally uncertain and should instead be dealt with at EU level. The decision means…
