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“Using nicotine products to stop smoking during pregnancy appeared safe,” Professor Peter Hajek of the Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London, and lead researcher of the study told Medscape News UK.

Supporting the decision to ban the sale of e-cigarettes and vapes to minors in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Alternative Research Initiative (ARI) reiterated its call for sensibly regulating tobacco harm-reduction products in Pakistan.

We found that relative harm perceptions of cigarette smoking versus e-cigarette use are likely related to much uncertainty and confusion about the harms of e-cigarette use. Moreover, findings illustrate that public health messages regarding the risks of (...)

A panel discussion of the new laws coming in March, what they are exactly, how the Government bypassed democracy to implement them? How this will affect consumers and business and who will benefit, what this means for the future of harm reduction in Australia?

The study, carried out by the Biomedical Science Research group at Anglia Ruskin University, looked at a common brand of watermelon-flavoured vape in three different nicotine concentrations: 0mg, 10mg and 20mg. All three concentrations appeared to cause this damage when exposed to a human lung.

Countless studies have looked into the effects of passive smoke on our health. A recent study found that a large number of non-smoking cancer survivors have been exposed to secondhand smoke.

A ban on disposable vapes could discourage the use of e-cigarettes among people who are trying to quit smoking, research has found.

The Hon Mark Butler MP confirmed that Australia’s complete ban on the importation of disposables has been enacted at the start of 2024 leaving Australians facing a AUD$150 bill to get a single prescription vape.

An investigation by The Guardian has uncovered British American Tobacco (BAT) pressured Kenya to reduce health warnings on Lyft nicotine pouches, threatening investment withdrawal. BAT threatened it would pull investment from a Nairobi factory if its request for smaller labelling was not met.

Objections to an article published by Harvard Health saw a tweet taken down and a review conducted. But the article, which misleadingly links nicotine vapes to “popcorn lung” and “EVALI,” remains online.