Public health advocates who attended a recent global forum called on the World Health Organization to stop its opposition to the tobacco harm reduction approach and insistence to ban less-harmful tobacco alternative products like vapes and heated tobacco.
The Global Forum on Nicotine (GFN) has just been held for the 10th time. It’s been a helluva decade! GFN has been a lonely, brave platform in robustly exploring and unapologetically promoting tobacco harm reduction (THR).
The Global Forum on Nicotine (GFN) took place in Warsaw, Poland. Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the event opened up to four packed days of workshops and presentations, attended by experts in tobacco harm reduction, advocates and consumers. The final of the four days saw Dr Roberto Sussman deliver the Michael Russell Oration, and session discussing the changing face of nicotine, the role of nicotinic systems in brain disorders, the tobacco control playbook, and what the next decade might bring for tobacco harm reduction.
The Global Forum on Nicotine (GFN) took place in Warsaw, Poland. Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the event opened up to four packed days of workshops and presentations, attended by experts in tobacco harm reduction, advocates and consumers. Day 2 focussed on the science, covering the politics of publishing research, what we’ve learned from the last ten years, how we can achieve a level playing field, and the morality of science.
The Global Forum on Nicotine (GFN) took place in Warsaw, Poland. Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the event opened up to four packed days of workshops and presentations, attended by experts in tobacco harm reduction, advocates and consumers. Day 2 continued with packed rooms and interesting conversations.
Consumers and vape advocates from around the world came together at last week’s Global Forum on Nicotine in Poland to discuss how to respond to the thread posed by the forthcoming World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control’s (FCTC) Conference of Parties (COP) in Panama. The sense of a big showdown is palpable – and yet it is difficult to predict the outcome. One thing is certain, vapers have a massive part to play and the need to engage in advocacy with their political representatives is imperative.
Activistas, médicos y científicos internacionales alertaron que la Décima Reunión de la Conferencia de las Partes (COP10) del Convenio Marco para el Control del Tabaco de la Organización Mundial de la Salud podría derivar en severos riesgos para los instrumentos de riesgo reducido, pues el tabaquismo es una actividad responsable de la muerte de más de siete millones de personas al año en todo el mundo.
The tobacco industry is undergoing rapid transformation. Companies are increasingly offering safer nicotine alternatives to current consumers of risky forms of tobacco. Is it time for them to reassess their supply chains to procure nicotine from nonagricultural sources and in the process free up land for growing crops that can feed the world’s 8 billion people? A study of the economics of tobacco cultivation and nicotine consumption may give us practical answers.