Research Articles

INNCO Calls For Impact Studies (October 07, 2021)
The International Network of Nicotine Consumer Organisations (INNCO) calls on local governments to conduct health impact studies on proposed flavour bans as research analysis finds anti-vaping arguments counterproductive to reducing harm caused by smoking. Click for detail

ARI Newsletter September 2021 (September 28, 2021)
Few countries have embraced vaping with as much enthusiasm as the United Kingdom. It currently has three million regular vapers (six per cent of the adult population) and Public Health England's evidence reviews on e-cigarettes are cited around the world. In contrast to much of Europe and North America, public health professionals in Britain broadly regard the emergence of e-cigarettes as a welcome development that has signicantly Click for detail

Assessing the Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices of Cigarette Smokers and Use of Alternative Nicotine Delivery Systems in Pakistan: A Cross-Sectional Study (September 27, 2021)
The component of smoking cessation is almost missing in Pakistan's existing tobacco control efforts and policies. There is a need to establish smoking cessation clinics in hospitals and create buy-in through mass awareness. This assistance should be backed with public advocacy on the negative effects of combustible smoking. Pakistan also needs to develop durable mechanisms to control illicit trade of cigarettes in order to restrict available options of buying cheap, illicit, or smuggled cigarettes. Tobacco law enforcement on smoking at public and private places should be more stringently pursued. There is a need to create an understanding about HRPs, backed by sensible regulation. Currently, the use of HRPs, mainly e-cigarettes, is unregulated and limited to the upper and middle classes. The unregulated use of HRPs in a regulatory vacuum may create space for abuse of HRPs in the form of fake products. Click for detail

Vaping & the workplace - A conversation with Martin Dockrell of Public Health England (September 26, 2021)
E-cigarettes continue to be a polarising issue across the public health world, as was evidenced during an exchange between two public health experts at C3's most recent workplace health webinar run in partnership with the Society of Occupational Medicine. Click for detail

UK Vape Ban Threat - URGENT Call To Action From Advocacy Group (September 26, 2021)
The World Health Organization has upped the anti on a UK vape ban threat and advocates say vapers MUST act now and fight back. Click for detail

NNA Asks UK Vapers to Help Stop FCTC Attacks (September 26, 2021)
As the member countries of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) prepare to gather virtually in November for the treaty organization's biennial meeting, vaping advocates are fearful the group could recommend restrictive vaping regulations. Click for detail

According to Data from the CDC, Youth Vaping Has Not Led to Smoking (September 24, 2021)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have updated their Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), their annual survey to gauge health and behaviors of American adults. The CDC has been collecting this data since 1995 and numerous public health groups including Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (CTFK) rely on the annual survey to determine the number of smokers in a given state. Click for detail

Commission Report: Reignite the Fight Against Smoking (September 24, 2021)
It is simply unacceptable that global consumption of cigarettes is the same today as it was 30 years ago. The International Commission to Reignite the Fight Against Smoking was established with the belief that efforts to prevent premature deaths from tobacco use require much greater imagination and ambition. Click for detail

Vaping: necessary clinic and functional indicators to assess tobacco harm reduction and related benefits (September 23, 2021)
Tobacco harm reduction theories and their fundamental principles are questioned worldwide. New indicators specifically designed to establish the harm reduction potential of low risk tobacco products are examined by CoEHAR, with promising results Click for detail

Release: Health System Chaos Looms As Greg Hunt's Vaping Prescription Plan Bombs With GPs (September 23, 2021)
Only 71 doctors across Australia have signed up to be authourised prescribers of vaping products ahead of the Federal Government's October 1 deadline, setting up a chaotic scenario in GP surgeries around the country in the coming months as more than half a million vapers try to get access to a product that is a normal part of life in countries like the United Kingdom and New Zealand. Click for detail

Bangladesh Government Says It Will Prohibit Vape Sales (September 23, 2021)
Bangladesh is set to join more than a dozen Asian countries that have banned the sale (and in some cases possession and use) of vaping products. Like most other Asian countries with vaping bans, Bangladesh has made the decision in "partnership" with a Bloomberg Philanthropies-funded tobacco control advisor-in this case the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. Click for detail

The US Obsession With Youth Vaping Looks Odd From Across the Atlantic (September 23, 2021)
Two countries divided by a common language" is a common saying misattributed to George Bernard Shaw. US and UK vocabulary differences are of perennial amusement: elevator, lift; sidewalk, pavement; gas, petrol; soccer, football. Brits say "pants" to mean underwear; Americans say it to mean what we call "trousers." Click for detail

Bureaucrats and politicians seem determined to cripple a lifesaving alternative to smoking (September 23, 2021)
E-cigarettes, which deliver nicotine without tobacco or combustion, are the most important harm-reducing alternative to smoking ever developed, one that could prevent millions of premature deaths in the United States alone. Click for detail