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Health and science
Advances in age-verification and age-gating technologies could save the day
11th July 2025 - News analysis |
Could age-verification and age-gating technologies help get the balance right between flavoured alternative nicotine products as smoking-cessation aids for adults and keeping them away from under-age users?
Court rules local governments can set laws, including bans, on flavoured tobacco…
10th July 2025 - Alerts | North America, Ohio, United States |
District court grants injunction in case challenging mass firings at HHS…
3rd July 2025 - Alerts | North America, United States |
WHO EMRO publishes tenth ‘report on global tobacco epidemic’…
26th June 2025 - Alerts | Asia, Middle East |
Minimarkets and kiosks banned from selling tobacco products…
26th June 2025 - Alerts | Asia, Saudi Arabia |
PMI and Swedish Match push for Zyn pouches to get US FDA MRTP status
24th June 2025 - News analysis |
Philip Morris International (PMI)’s modified risk tobacco product (MRTP) submission status for Zyn nicotine pouches has raised a few interesting comparisons with existing reduced-risk products
US FDA debuts AI tool ahead of time but early users encounter teething problems
19th June 2025 - News analysis |
With great fanfare, the US Food and Drug Administration has announced the rollout of its new artificial intelligence scientific review assistant, Elsa. But questions have been raised about the tool’s potential
Republika Srpska approves draft tobacco law, which includes pouches…
18th June 2025 - Alerts | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Europe |
Another reduced-risk advocacy group closes, leaving space for misinformation
17th June 2025 - Blog , News analysis |
Recently, three harm-reduction advocacy organisations have stopped operating, and though they gave different reasons for closing, they have more in common than the explanations might suggest
RIVM warns of excessively high nicotine levels in ‘nicotine sticks’…
10th June 2025 - Alerts | Europe, Netherlands |
Replicating research could shift doubt cast on reduced-risk potential of HTPs
9th June 2025 - Blog , News analysis |
Replication is necessary to determine whether the recent critical meta-analysis of heated tobacco studies holds water. It was generally down on both the reduced risk potential of heated tobacco products (HTPs) and their ability to function as smoking-cessation aids
PIA infographic warns of smoking hazards…
2nd June 2025 - Alerts | Asia, Philippines |
NRC is using WHO data to direct tobacco awareness campaigns…
2nd June 2025 - Alerts | Asia, United Arab Emirates |
Government prepares for new tobacco and nicotine testing rules…
29th May 2025 - Alerts | Asia, South Korea |
Medical organisations express concern over HHS cuts…
28th May 2025 - Alerts | North America, United States |
Are Australia’s restrictive regulations to blame for a rise in black-market demand?
27th May 2025 - News analysis |
March saw Australia’s largest-ever haul of illegal cigarettes and vapes by a health authority, and similar seizures have occurred in the wake of regulations in effect since October
Are Dutch nicotine product flavour bans healthy or an attempt to stop progress?
23rd May 2025 - News analysis |
Why has the Netherlands taken such a harsh, prohibitionist stance on nicotine when it has historically been liberal in its approach to other so-called vice products?
New US surgeon general nominee could bode well for harm-reduction products
20th May 2025 - News analysis |
New US surgeon general nominee Casey Means has not publicly laid out any position on vaping, nicotine or smoking cessation, but some of her public comments suggest she may be amenable to reduced-harm products
